A partying place so cool that Bill Gates had his high-school class reunion there, that features fine Northwest cuisine, including many local microbrews on tap, group and individual virtual-reality games, music and plenty of space for schmoozing has been promised to NASW members attending the Seattle meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It has been made possible by the energetic local arrangements committee whose fund-raising effort has attained its goal thanks to a number of generous organizations. The social gathering will take place on Sunday evening, February 16, at Club ENTROS, which bills itself as "the intelligent amusement park."
The awards banquet will be held Saturday evening at Bell Harbor International Conference Center. According to L. G. Blanchard, Director Health Sciences/Medical Affairs News and Community Relations at the University of Washington, "this spectacular, brand-new facility affords stunning views of Elliott Bay and the Seattle waterfront, including the whole nighttime commercial maritime scene. In the distance, if it's a clear night (if we're incredibly lucky, that is!), we'll be able to see the outline of the Olympic Range across Puget Sound."
Paul Lowenberg, at the University of Washington News and Information Office, adds, "We are working on a tour of Microsoft on the Wednesday preceding the opening of the AAAS meeting and an evening event at Elliott Bay Books, one of the country's major independent bookstores, to recognize publication of the new NASW book on science writing. Workshops in the offing include one on science as a business enterprise: what it can mean to the economic development of a region and what issues this raises for reporters and PIO's... sessions on new developments on the Internet and electronic publishing issues, on issues such as copyrights and contracts...a session featuring the wit and wisdom of senior science on where the profession is heading as well as reminiscences about the past."
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