Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

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50th New Horizons slated for the Research Triangle

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Science writers afloat in Glen Canyon

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Flagstaff remembered: Great hosts and posts

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The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is committed to improving the quality of science news reaching the public. Comprised of a panel of distinguished journalists and scientists, CASW develops and funds programs to help reporters and writers produce accurate and informative stories about developments in science, technology, medicine and the environment.

CASW P.O. Box 910
Hedgesville, WV 25427
304-754-6786

In Focus

New Edition of Science Writing Career Guide Now Available

Prompted by the enormous changes that continue to ripple through and transform the media landscape, CASW has produced and posted a thoroughly new and timely edition of its highly popular primer for aspiring science writers, “A Guide to Careers in Science Writing.” The updated rendition deals with the new realities and challenges confronting anyone wishing to more…

CASW News

50th New Horizons slated for the Research Triangle

Midway between the Outer Banks and the Blue Ridge lies North Carolina's research nexus, the site of the 50th New Horizons in Science briefings Oct. 28 and 29. Science writers will converge more…

Science writers afloat in Glen Canyon

From a distance while heading north on Route 89 from Flagstaff, Glen Canyon looks dinky. From atop the dam when you get there, the blue float boats on more…

Barbara K. Trevett Fund for the Future established

CASW is pleased to announce the establishment of the Barbara K. Trevett Fund for the Future, a vehicle designed primarily to facilitate individual giving. Contributions to the Trevett more…

CASW appoints Rosalind Reid to new program post

The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Inc., has named Rosalind Reid, the former editor of American Scientist/ /magazine and currently executive director of Harvard's Institute for more…

Ron Winslow of Wall Street Journal receives Victor Cohn medical science reporting prize

Ron Winslow, the New York-based deputy bureau chief for health and science and a veteran medical reporter at the Wall Street Journal, has been awarded the 2011 Victor more…

Trio toasted, roasted for CASW service

For their collective service of more than 90 years to CASW, Board Directors Philip Boffey, Warren Leary and David Perlman retired from active Board duty and were honored more…

Flagstaff remembered: Great hosts and posts

From New Horizons Program Director Paul Raeburn ScienceWriters 2011, including the 49th annual New Horizons in Science [1], is now written in the dust of the more…

Why Scientists Should Talk to the Media: Watch it online

Prominent science and medical journalists recently spoke at Yale School of Medicine about the importance of scientists communicating their work to the public. They were part of a more…

CASW News

CASW Periscope

Copy-cat ink: Never mind the press release. That’s no dinosaur with an arthritic jaw. suggest it’s a dino.

Seen one humongous Mesozoic reptile fossil, seen ‘em all, eh dinosaur fan? A few reporters and editors fell into a trap inadvertently laid by a Bristol University press release (see Grist below) with a headline that says “Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too.” You all out there who remember school science more…
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
Chicago Sun-Times: Puff piece endorsement for bogus autism and vaccine link (ie Jenny McCarthy) lights up comments.

Oh sigh. Oh my. If you like to raise your blood pressure take a look at the* Chicago Sun Times*‘s *Sunday Q&A by Alisa M. Alexander* with actress Jenny McCarthy [1], the latter of note for vociferously pushing the idea that childhood vaccines cause autism and, more recently, that detoxification, new diet, and other non-standard treatments will more…
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
Earth overburdened by soaring consumption, says WWF report

The world is not enough ... NASA /Posted on behalf of Katherine Rowland/ Orbiting high above the Earth inside the International Space Station, an astronaut issued a grim report card on the state of the planet yesterday, describing current levels of resource consumption as 50 percent higher than the world can sustainably maintain. In a recorded message, Andre Kuipers of the more…
The Great Beyond (Nature Magazine News Blog)
Montenegrin academicians at loggerheads

/Posted on behalf of Mico Tatalovic/ Members of Montenegro’s unofficial science academy, the Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts (DANU), got a nasty surprise this week. In March, the country’s parliament had mandated [1] that DANU should merge with the official academy, the Montenegrin Academy of Science and Arts (CANU), in an effort to unite the country’s scientific potential. more…
The Great Beyond (Nature Magazine News Blog)
Bringing Back San Juan Capistrano's Swallows Is One Tough Mission

A bird's call rings endlessly inside the adobe walls at Mission San Juan Capistrano as tourists wander through the courtyard--ablaze with flowers in full bloom--and a handful of fourth-graders snap pictures and take notes for class projects... from the /Los Angeles Times/ (Registration Required) more…
Science in The News Daily
Method to Find New Moons Uncovers Hidden Planet

The search for distant planets in the Milky Way is now so sophisticated that astronomers are searching for unseen moons around the planets that the Kepler mission's scientists have discovered... from the /San Francisco Chronicle / more…
Science in The News Daily