| 5Friday | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Board meeting Location: York Room | | |
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| 6:00 - 10:00 pm | Check-in Location: Ballroom pre-function area | W | |
| 6:00 - 10:00 pm | Science Cabaret and anniversary party Location: Ballroom | W | |
| 9:30 - 11:00 pm | Friday Social at ScienceWriters2010 for First-Timers, Students and ‘Sci-Buddies’ Location: Bar 19, 19th Floor | W | |
| 6Saturday | 7:30 am - 6:15 pm | Check-in Location: Ballroom pre-function area | W | |
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| 7:30 - 8:00 am | Power Pitch Sign-Ups Location: Church Room | W | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | NASW Business meeting Location: Ballroom | | F |
| 9:15 - 10:45 am | Great science writing part I: From eureka moment to book Location: Ballroom | W | |
| 9:15 - 10:45 am | How to be an effective science public information officer in the changing media world Location: Wooster Room | W | |
| 9:15 - 10:45 am | Profitable freelancing: Starting a business and keeping it productive Location: College Room | W | |
| 9:15 - 10:45 am | The social web and online commenting: Making it work for journalism Location: Temple Room | W | |
| 10:30 am - 4:30 pm | Science Writing Secret Mission collaborative game | W | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 am | Break Location: Ballroom pre-function area | | |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Experiments in new media: Beautiful failures and startling successes Location: Temple Room | W | |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Get the numbers right: A workshop on reporting statistics Location: Chapel Room | W | |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Your next book will be a pixel: Navigating e-books and e-rights Location: Wooster Room | W | |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Power Pitch, the sequel Location: Church Room | W | |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Civics of science: Literacy and the collapse of science journalism Location: College Room | W | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Lunch Location: Ballroom | W | |
| 2:15 - 3:45 pm | Great science writing part II: Building the big book Location: Ballroom | W | |
| 2:15 - 3:45 pm | Rebooting science journalism: Adapting to the new media landscape Location: College Room | W | |
| 2:15 - 3:45 pm | Partners and ethics in the new media era Location: Temple Room | W | |
| 2:15 - 3:45 pm | Producing video, on camera and off Location: Chapel Room | W | |
| 3:45 - 4:15 pm | Break Location: Ballroom pre-function area | | |
| 4:15 - 6:00 pm | How to cover a medical conference: Tips from the pros Location: Temple Room | W | |
| 4:15 - 6:00 pm | Data visualization for reporting and storytelling Location: Ballroom | W | |
| 4:15 - 6:00 pm | New funding models for journalism Location: College Room | W | |
| 4:15 - 6:00 pm | A global science writing community: Gearing up for the World Conference of Science Journalists 2011 Location: Wooster Room | W | |
| 6:30 - 9:00 pm | ScienceWriters2010 welcome reception Location: Peabody Museum of Natural History | | F |
| 7Sunday | 8:30 am | NEUROLOGY: Diagnosing and treating unremitting depression, with Helen Mayberg Location: Ballroom | | F |
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| 8:30 am | Evo-Devo, with Sean Carroll Location: Canceled | | F |
| 9:30 am | GENOMICS : High-speed pursuit of the genes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, with Matthew State Location: Ballroom | | F |
| 10:30 am | CLIMATE CHANGE: Surviving a political attack, and an update on research, with Michael Mann Location: Ballroom | | F |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Lunch with a scientist Location: Varied; see program on-site. | | F |
| 2:30 pm | METAGENOMICS: Discoveries in the dirt: Soil metagenomics leads to important findings on antibiotic resistance, with Jo Handelsman Location: Yale Art Gallery auditorium | | F |
| 2:30 pm | RISK PERCEPTION: Why do people who oppose abortion also tend to doubt climate change? with Dan M. Kahan Location: Yale Center for British Art auditorium | | F |
| 3:30 pm | CANCER: Overturning cancer dogma: It’s the slowly-dividing cells that matter, with Gil Mor Location: Yale Art Gallery auditorium | | F |
| 3:30 pm | COMPLEXITY: Modeling insurgency: Physicist detects similar patterns in very different wars, with Neil Johnson Location: Yale Center for British Art auditorium | | F |
| 4:30 pm | EVOLUTIONARY PHOTONICS: The optics and nanoscience of blue bird feathers (and butterflies too!) Location: Yale Center for British Art auditorium | | F |
| 4:30 pm | PRIMATE BEHAVIOR: Why evolution allows us to make bad decisions, with Laurie Santos Location: Yale Art Gallery auditorium | | F |
| 6:00 - 9:00 pm | Awards dinner Location: Commons, Yale University | | |
| 8Monday | 8:30 - 11:30 am | Solons of science: A special symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Location: Ballroom | | F |
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| 8:30 - 9:30 am | Future Climate/Future Life (Redux) | | F |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am | P4 Medicine: A Newly Emergent Biological Paradigm | | F |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Cosmology at the Edge | | F |
| 1:00 - 5:00 pm | Tours of Yale University and Yale School of Medicine Location: Varied; see program for departure points. | | F |
| 9Tuesday | 8:30 am | CLINICAL TRIALS: Upending conventional wisdom—and sorting spin from substance, with Harlan M. Krumholz | | F |
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| 8:30 am | CHEMISTRY: Recruiting antibodies to fight disease, with David A. Spiegel | | F |
| 9:30 am | STEM CELLS: The dark side of biology: Tiny RNA molecules controlling gene expression, with Haifan Lin | | F |
| 9:30 am | OIL SPILL: The role of science in a national crisis: Update on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with Steven Lohrenz | | F |
| 10:30 am | AUTISM: Early diagnosis and treatment of autism, with Ami Klin | | F |
| 10:30 am | GREEN CHEMISTRY: Chemistry research that can cleanse the environment and encourage responsible corporate behavior, with Julie Zimmerman | | F |
