The annual membership meeting agenda for the October 18 meeting follows. All members are invited to attend: Saturday, October 18 at 8AM, Hilton Columbus Downtown, Columbus, Ohio. Meeting minutes will be published in the Winter issue of ScienceWriters.
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It is with sadness that we share the announcement of ScienceOnline’s dissolution. The ScienceOnline organization's ideas and energy have been an inspiration to science writers and made a significant and lasting contribution to communicating science in the digital world. Reaction from Paul Raeburn, Pascale H. Lane. Storify from Kirk Englehardt.
Thanks to the hard work of two talented Japanese PIOs, the scientists’ guide Working with Public Information Officers has been translated into Japanese and is available online (WorkingWithPIOs.com). Besides being enormously gratifying to have his work translated, the process taught author Dennis Meredith a lot about the challenges of spreading the word internationally about the value and importance of PIOs, and how scientists can best work with them.
NASW is pleased to announce that members are now eligible to receive a discount or extended free trial on audio editing software from Hindenburg. Members interested in this limited time offer, should read more for details and apply by December 15, 2014.
Twenty-five NASW travel fellows, including recipients of the new PIO Travel Fellowship, will be joined by travel fellows from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and the Diverse Scholar program in Columbus, Ohio October 17-21 for ScienceWriters2014. Read more to meet the ScienceWriters2014 travel fellows.
A science café is any deliberately planned event in a public setting where people gather with a “discussion leader” to learn and talk about science in their lives. This format of science communication began to take off in England and France at the turn of the millennium and now can be found in hundreds of locations around the world. Ivan Amato discusses the birth of the D.C. Science Café.
Six articles by NASW members are among the 26 works selected for inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 by guest editor and NASW member Deborah Blum.
Her late mother’s 1963 travel diary inspired Jane Stein’s children’s book, presented as letters from a teacher to her students: Dear Class: Traveling Around the World with Mrs. J.