New Horizons in Science

Long COVID, AI, UFOs and more: Reporters cover ScienceWriters2023 As experts spoke on topics ranging from environmental disaster response and quantum computers to long COVID, 14 intrepid reporters fanned out across the ScienceWriters2023 conferen...

Propose a session for ScienceWriters2023 CASW invites science writers to propose a session on topics at the intersection of science and science writing as part of the New Horizons in Science program for ScienceWriters2023...

A critical reflection on media coverage of SARS-CoV-2’s origin The opening session of CASW’s 2022 New Horizons in Science briefings, “Science + Science Writing: A critical reflection on media coverage of SARS-CoV-2’s origin,&...

Amber Dance to direct CASW New Horizons in Science program CASW is pleased to welcome science journalist Amber Dance (@amberldance) as director of New Horizons in Science, CASW’s annual program of science briefings for science writer...

Student, professional science writers attend ScienceWriters2021 with CASW support CASW is happy to announce that five journalists have been awarded New Horizons attendance fellowships to support their participation in the ScienceWriters2021 virtual conference. I...

ScienceWriters2021 conference transitioning to all-virtual event After a close review of the continuing risks and uncertainties posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advance...

Workshop reporters tackle topics from vitriol to wildfires at ScienceWriters2020 These topics and more were the focus of CASW’s 58th New Horizons in Science briefings, produced by New Horizons Program Director Wayt Gibbs and delivered online in October as...

Workshop reporting captures highlights of 57th New Horizons briefing Eleven talented science graduate students and postdoctoral fellows were transformed into science news reporters during ScienceWriters2019 in State College, Pa. Oct. 25-29, 2019, pr...

Science writers gather at Penn State Nearly 550 attendees are converging this week for ScienceWriters2019, featuring the science cornucopia that is the 57th presentation of CASW’s New Horizons in Science briefi...

Scientists meet science writers at New Horizons 2016 CASW’s New Horizons Traveling Fellows have now posted coverage of the 2016 program—including a tongue-in-cheek interactive game simulating the experience of a freelancer ge...

Record registration for ScienceWriters2015 For the fourth time in its history, CASW’s New Horizons in Science briefing will be held in the Boston area in 2015. The 53rd annual presentation of emerging research and sc...

Student journalists enjoy a taste of science writing at New Horizons 2014 As this year’s New Horizons in Science briefings opened in Columbus Oct. 19 as part of ScienceWriters2014, a group of bright young science-writers-in-the-making pulled out th...

Student journalists and online interactions enliven New Horizons 2013 An experimental “student newsroom” and sessions crafted to enhance participation by online audiences were among the innovations that marked the 51st New Horizons in Sci...

“Live scribing” captures shared experience of 2012 talks My name is Perrin Ireland. I’m a science scribe, a science doodler, a visual science storyteller. Live scribing, or graphically capturing, a scientific presentation is permission...

New Horizons 2012 science stories told in posts and pictures CASW’s New Horizons in Science 2012 is sure to be remembered for lab coats, lemurs, zombies—and Sandy, the Frankenstorm that sideswiped our meeting. There was also some rem...

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 the Colorado River way dow...

Flagstaff remembered: Great hosts and posts ScienceWriters 2011, including the 49th annual New Horizons in Science, is now written in the dust of the Arizona desert. My thanks to Peter Friederici, Kirsten Slaughter, Lesley C...

ScienceWriters 2010 draws a record crowd to Yale University ScienceWriters2010, hosted by Yale University Nov. 5-9, drew a record crowd of nearly 600 National Association of Science Writers members and other science journalists for sess...