Awards Gala

Awards Gala

Time:
Saturday, November 2nd, 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Location:
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida (a short walk from the hotel; shuttle available)

Help us celebrate the winners of this year's Science in Society awards, the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne award for Young Journalists. The awards will begin promptly at 7:00 in the theatre of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Immediately following the ceremony, around 8:00, a buffet dinner will be served and the Museum will be open for exploration. A cash bar will be available throughout the evening. All attendees are invited to attend the gala at no cost. Dress is smart business casual.

Meeting schedule

Friday, Nov. 1

11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
11:00 am to 4:00 pm
NASW Board Meeting (closed meeting)
Board Room, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Florida Museum Collections tour
Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave on the hour at 1 pm, 2 pm & 3 pm
Friday, Nov. 1
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
UF Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute
Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave on the hour at 1 pm, 2 pm & 3 pm
Friday, Nov. 1
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
UF/IFAS Entomology Department tour
Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave at 1 pm and 2:30 pm

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Professional Headshots with Mark Bennington
Prefunction Area/Lobby, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

3:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Check-in
Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Aerial camera drone demo
Hilton University of Florida (front lawn)

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Welcome reception
Florida Museum of Natural History

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
9:00 pm to 11:00 pm
After party
Two Bits Lounge, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
Saturday, Nov. 2

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

7:00 am to 5:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:00 am to 5:00 pm
Check-in
Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

7:15 am to 8:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:15 am to 8:00 am
Power Pitch Sign-ups
Live Oak

7:30 am to 8:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:30 am to 8:00 am
Newcomer meet and greet
Century A Ballroom, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

8:00 am to 9:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
8:00 am to 9:00 am
NASW Business Meeting
Century Ballroom A

9:00 am to 6:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Professional Headshots with Mark Bennington
Prefunction Area/Lobby, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

9:15 am to 10:30 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
A1) From Star Trek to The Big Bang Theory: Science goes Hollywood
Century Ballroom A
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
A2) Working with editors
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
A3) Becoming a backpack PIO
Century Ballroom B
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
A4) Online and offline tools for mastering your workflow
Dogwood

10:30 am to 11:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Morning Break
Prefunction Area

11:00 am to 12:15 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
B1) A view from the future
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
B2) Take a lesson from the universe: expand
Dogwood
Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
B3) Power Pitch
Century Ballroom A
Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
B4) Going tribal: Cultivating community in an isolating profession
Century Ballroom B

12:15 pm to 1:45 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
12:15 pm to 1:45 pm
Lunch
Albert’s Restaurant and Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
C1) Social media law: How just 140 characters can get you in trouble
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
C2) If you can’t go long, write short
Century Ballroom A
Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
C3) Show me the money
Century Ballroom B
Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
C4) Why research matters: Communicating scientific success stories to policy makers and the public
Dogwood

3:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Afternoon Break
Prefunction Area

3:45 pm to 5:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
D2) Starting new publications
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
D3) Freelancer ethics: Navigating the changing media landscape
Dogwood
Saturday, Nov. 2
3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
D4) Rising above the noise: Using statistics-based reporting
Century Ballroom A

5:05 pm to 6:30 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
5:05 pm to 6:30 pm
D1) The XX question
Century Ballroom A

6:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Awards Gala
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida (a short walk from the hotel; shuttle available)
Sunday, Nov. 3

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Breakfast
Prefunction area

7:00 am to 12:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
7:00 am to 12:00 pm
Check-in
Prefunction area

8:30 am to 9:30 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
8:30 am to 9:30 am
The tree of lice and the tree of life: Tales of evolution and symbiosis written in one parasite’s gut
Century Ballroom A

9:00 am to 6:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Professional Headshots with Mark Bennington
Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

9:30 am to 10:30 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Crashing markets, power blackouts and sudden death: The physics of a networked world
Century Ballroom B
Sunday, Nov. 3
9:30 am to 10:30 am
From Haiti to the Hajj: Real-time science to prevent pandemics
Century Ballroom A

10:30 am to 10:45 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
10:30 am to 10:45 am
Break
Prefunction area

10:45 am to 11:45 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
10:45 am to 11:45 am
Simplicity, surprise, science
Century Ballroom A

11:45 am to 1:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
11:45 am to 1:45 pm
Lunch with a scientist
Conference Center meeting rooms

1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
Rethinking the origins of dogs
Century Ballroom A
Sunday, Nov. 3
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
When you go to Mars, take a towel—and a handful of seeds
Century Ballroom B

1:45 pm to 3:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
1:45 pm to 3:45 pm
Powell Structures Lab tour
Depart from Conference Center lobby

2:30 pm to 3:15 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
2:30 pm to 3:15 pm
Probing nanoparticles for answers to big climate questions
Century Ballroom A

3:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
3:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Break
Prefunction area

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
U.F. Poinsettia and Coleus Breeding Program tour
Depart from Conference Center lobby

3:45 pm to 4:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
One Medicine: How dogs are accelerating human cancer research
Century Ballroom A
Sunday, Nov. 3
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
Planck cosmology: Zooming in on big-bang inflation
Century Ballroom B

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
The future of spaceflight: An update from Virgin Galactic
Century Ballroom A

6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Florida Innovation Hub reception
Depart from Conference Center lobby

7:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
7:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Gainesville Downtown dine-around
Walk from Innovation Hub, shuttles back to hotel. Pay on your own.
Monday, Nov. 4

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Monday, Nov. 4
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Breakfast
Prefunction area

8:30 am to 9:30 am

Monday, Nov. 4
8:30 am to 9:30 am
From reductionism to sustainable science
Century Ballroom A

9:30 am to 10:15 am

Monday, Nov. 4
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Tiny mammals, giant reptiles: Fossil snapshots of biotic response to climate
Century Ballroom B
Monday, Nov. 4
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Viral gene therapy: Leveraging structural biology for safer cures
Century Ballroom A

10:15 am to 10:30 am

Monday, Nov. 4
10:15 am to 10:30 am
Break
Prefunction area

10:30 am to 11:15 am

Monday, Nov. 4
10:30 am to 11:15 am
A pathogen hunter flies into African dust plumes
Century Ballroom A
Monday, Nov. 4
10:30 am to 11:15 am
The cell as a pump
Century Ballroom B

11:15 am to 12:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
11:15 am to 12:00 pm
Reading the drug-dosing instructions written in your genome
Century Ballroom A

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Lunch
Main ballroom

12:45 pm to 2:45 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
12:45 pm to 2:45 pm
U.F. McKnight Brain Institute tour
Depart from Conference Center lobby

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Can the climate-change locomotive be stopped?
Century Ballroom A

1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
LEDs arm a greenhouse "light brigade"
Century Ballroom A

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Break
Prefunction area

2:45 pm to 4:15 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
U.F. Health Cancer & Genetics Institute tour
Depart from Conference Center lobby

3:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Climate CSI: A geologist reports from Greenland’s melting ice sheet
Century Ballroom A

3:45 pm to 4:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
Bursts of color on the tree of life: The turbulent evolution of flowers
Century Ballroom A

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
I don’t feel your pain: Solving the puzzle of subjective measurement
Century Ballroom A

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Food truck rodeo
Location TBD, Pay on your own.

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy concert
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday, Nov. 5

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Breakfast
Conference Center lobby

7:30 am to 12:00 pm

Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:30 am to 12:00 pm
Thomas Farm fossil dig
Depart from Conference Center lobby; limit 35.

7:30 am to 4:00 pm

Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:30 am to 4:00 pm
Florida springs tour
Depart from Conference Center lobby; additional cost, registration required, limit 40.
Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:30 am to 4:00 pm
Historic St. Augustine tour
Depart from Conference Center lobby; additional cost, registration required, limit 50.
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