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Chakradhar and Smart receive 2019 Diane McGurgan Service Awards
NASW’s programs, awards and activities wouldn’t happen without more than 200 members who step up annually as volunteers. Each year, NASW recognizes a volunteer or volunteers who went beyond the call of duty with its Diane McGurgan Service Award. Shraddha Chakradhar and Ashley Smart are the 2019 recipients.
NASW student programs at AAAS 2020, Seattle
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is again sponsoring several exciting programs for student journalists during the AAAS meeting, being held next in Seattle, Washington.
Desk Notes Newsletter, October 16, 2019
Check out the October issue of Desk Notes newsletter, featuring a call for Idea Grant proposals, our #SciWriAwards winners, and a Q&A with new member Sushma Subramanian.
Join the NASW Grants Committee
The Grants Committee is currently seeking a new volunteer to join six returning members as it begins the annual award cycle.
Meet new member Sushma Subramanian
Sushma Subramanian, a journalism professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and a freelance science writer, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
Cat Warren: What the Dog Knows
In What the Dog Knows, Cat Warren tells how she transformed her rambunctious German shepherd, Solo, recognized as having a “good nose,” into a cadaver dog. Warren gives young readers an introduction to the science of scent and the process of training dogs to follow a scent through a swamp, below ground, and even below the surface of a lake in this adaptation of her 2013 book on the same topic.