Congratulations to Elaine Vitone on her winning piece, “Cut Off,” published in the summer 2017 issue of Pitt Medicine. Vitone is a senior editor at Pitt Med, the magazine of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Read more for details
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Last week Jocelyn Bell Burnell was named recipient of the prestigious $3 million Breakthrough Prize for recognizing the first pulsar in 1967 when she was 23 years old. In Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond, Marcia Bartusiak describes Burnell’s discovery and provides the backstory for it and other cutting-edge findings in astrophysics.
Election results for the recent board election are in. Thank you to all ran. Read more to meet the new board members, who take office on October 12.
In the Apollo 8 mission, December 21, 1968, humans left earth’s gravity for the first time, and flew to the moon, circling it 10 times. They took now-iconic photos from space. To mark Apollo 8’s 50th anniversary, Robert Zimmerman collaborated with a fan of his 1998 book Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World to produce the work’s first ebook and audio versions.
The PIO Committee issues a statement on one of this fall's proposed amendments.
The tightening of access to our public servants and information is a critical issue for the science writing community. Join us in D.C. on October 16 for the Information Access Summit. Read more
DNA makes us who we are. But how? In Genetics 101, Beth Skwarecki starts at the beginning. She aims to build lay readers’ understanding step-by-step, and moves from describing basic building blocks of cellular information to how traits are inherited to topics in the news, including how DNA ancestry services work, ethical quandaries posed by embryonic gene editing, and babies of the future.
This fall members will have the opportunity to vote on two proposed amendments to the NASW constitution. Read on for details and links to the proposed amendments.
The Board and the Governance Committee have proposed an amendment to NASW's bylaws. Members will have the opportunity to vote on this and another proposed amendment at the October 13 meeting in Washington, DC or via online proxy later this fall. Read more for the text of the proposed amendment.