As the crowd was settling in to the "PIO Basics" session of the 2006 NASW meeting, a man in the row behind me leaned forward and whispered to the woman next to me, "I know nothing about being a PIO." "Neither do I," she whispered back.
Oct. 28, 2006NASW news
The How to Cover a Scientific Meeting session drew a standing-room only crowd, with participants lining the walls and sitting on the floors as four consummate professionals held forth on everything from the imminently practical ("Read the program" and "Eat breakfast") to pointers on schmoozing researchers to slick tips on how to capture elusive details to entice picky editors.
Oct. 27, 2006NASW Members looking for health, long-term care, vision, and dental insurance should be made aware that NASWers in NY (up to Ulster, Putnam, and Rockland County) (Oxford), CT, NJ, Greater Chicago, including part of Indiana, California, and Florida (CIGNA), can get health insurance through TEIGIT, The Entertainment Insurance Group Insurance Trust.
Oct. 5, 2006Jerome Groopman, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of medicine at Harvard, has been awarded the 2006 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Reporting for stories that combine sensitivity to patients' concerns with a thoughtful analysis of issues and controversies in medicine.
Sep. 13, 2006Help make the NASW Science in Society meeting a success — host a network table. All you need is a topic — any topic from "Interviewing Tricks and Tips" to "Making an Office Out of a Closet" to "Covering Volcanic Research." You need not be an expert on this topic. You just have to be willing to kick off the informal discussion at a table with other interested members during lunch on Friday, October 27.
Sep. 7, 2006The NASW membership met at 9 a.m. Sun., Oct. 22, 2005, during the NASW workshop in Pittsburgh, Pa. About 75 people attended, despite the early hour. Could it have been the free breakfast?
Aug. 11, 2006An estimated 80 NASW members attended the news-filled annual membership and business meeting on February 16, 2005, in the Cafritz Conference Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The meeting commenced shortly after 5 p.m., at the conclusion of the best-attended NASW workshops ever.
Aug. 11, 2006The annual membership/business meeting, on Feb. 14, 2004, was attended by an estimated 150 NASW members packed into a meeting room in the Seattle Convention Center. The topic of the day was the NASW board's decision to separate the NASW national conference from the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, beginning in 2005
Aug. 6, 2006At the annual business meeting in Denver on February 15, the NASW board announced plans to dip into the $203,183 we have tucked away in savings, money market accounts, mutual funds, and certificates of deposit. According to the 2003 budget, approved by the board, the organization will draw off approximately $35,000 from its reserves in the coming year.
Aug. 5, 2006