So when the invitation to resume teaching came, I quickly accepted. Perhaps too quickly as it turned out ...
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NASW is looking for volunteers to help steer the direction of our annual meeting, scheduled to begin October 24 in Palo Alto, California. Each year the quality of the annual meeting is determined by the efforts of enthusiastic NASW members. Whether you've been to 10 meetings or none, you have a perspective that we want! You can get involved by volunteering to be part of the annual meeting committee or by submitting a session proposal. Deadline for committee interest is Friday, Feb. 15. Deadline for proposal submission is Wednesday, March 5. Learn more about each option.
Q: When a publisher offers me a contract, I'd better sign it or I'll lose the job, right?
Q. Shouldn't publishers be able to obtain the copyright for all the articles we publish? After all, we're paying for them.
Cornell University's Center for Life Science Enterprise holds a poster session each year for its grant recipients as a requirement of the funding process. This year the poster session had a different spin: Scientists presented their grant-funded research to a lay audience in the form of a contest with a handsome prize and judged by community members.
The indispensable Diane McGurgan, the boundless heart and sweet soul of NASW, will be stepping down effective January 1 as executive director, after a generation of tireless service to science writers.
The Great Turtle Race embraced everything web. It was interactive, participatory, solution-oriented, immediately accessible, updated several times a day, visual (videos, photos, charts, maps), and animated. It seeded and linked social networking, and had lots of context and continuity. It was useful and entertaining.
By Robin Mejia
Choosing terms; it's something science writers do every day, sometimes with careful thought, sometimes in the last minutes before deadline. This panel at the 2007 NASW annual meeting challenged writers to use care when choosing terms and constructing analogies to describe contentious science, noting that if writers don't think through their choices, they may well be letting interest groups do it for them.