Check-In

Check-In

Time:
Saturday, October 18th, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm
Location:
Lower Level, Prefunction Hallway, Hilton Columbus Downtown

Pick up your name badge, materials, and program on the lower conference level of the Hilton Columbus Downtown.

Meeting schedule

Friday, Oct. 17

11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Friday, Oct. 17
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
NASW Board Meeting
Hayden Room, Hilton Columbus Downtown

12:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Friday, Oct. 17
12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Check-In
Main Lobby, Hilton Columbus Downtown

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Friday, Oct. 17
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Data Crunching and Visualization Hands-on Workshop
King Room, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Friday, Oct. 17
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Podcasting Hands-on Workshop
Hopkins Room, Hilton Columbus Downtown

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Friday, Oct. 17
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Ohio State Welcome Reception
Buses depart from Hilton, High St Entrance, Main Level

8:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Friday, Oct. 17
8:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Culture Dish Diversity Mixer
Barley's Brewing Company
Saturday, Oct. 18

7:30 am to 8:00 am

Saturday, Oct. 18
7:30 am to 8:00 am
Newcomer meet and greet
Bellows ABCD

7:30 am to 9:00 am

Saturday, Oct. 18
7:30 am to 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

7:30 am to 5:30 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
7:30 am to 5:30 pm
Check-In
Lower Level, Prefunction Hallway, Hilton Columbus Downtown

8:00 am to 9:00 am

Saturday, Oct. 18
8:00 am to 9:00 am
NASW Membership Meeting
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

9:15 am to 10:45 am

Saturday, Oct. 18
9:15 am to 10:45 am
A1) Innovation on a Budget
Burkhart A, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
9:15 am to 10:45 am
A2) Building a Roadmap for Your Freelance Career
Bellows EF, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
9:15 am to 10:45 am
A3) Media Law: How to Get Your Information and Protect Your Work From Plagiarists
Burkhart B, Hilton Columbus Downtown

10:45 am to 11:15 am

Saturday, Oct. 18
10:45 am to 11:15 am
Morning Break
Prefunction Hallway, Hilton Columbus Downtown

11:15 am to 12:45 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
11:15 am to 12:45 pm
B1) Supporting Diversity in Science Writing
Burkhart A, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
11:15 am to 12:45 pm
B2) Making Passion Projects Happen
Bellows EF, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
11:15 am to 12:45 pm
B3) Science Blogging for Institutions: How to Make Your #OrgBlog the Best it Can Be
Burkhart B, Hilton Columbus Downtown

12:45 pm to 2:00 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
12:45 pm to 2:00 pm
Lunch
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Contracts Boot Camp
Pierce Room, Hilton Columbus Downtown

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
C1) Hot Button Science Writing: Diving into Controversy & Politics
Burkhart A, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
C2) Beyond the News Release Grind: Connecting with the Public as PIOs
Bellows EF, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
C3) Think Small: How to Write for Local and Non-Science Publications
Burkhart B, Hilton Columbus Downtown

3:30 pm to 3:45 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Afternoon Break  
Prefunction Hallway, Hilton Columbus Downtown

3:45 pm to 5:15 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
D1) International Reporting: How NOT to screw it up
Burkhart A, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
D2) Back to School: How to Start Writing about Science for Kids
Burkhart B, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
D3) The Perils of P Values: How to Be Smart When Writing about Stats
Bellows EF, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Saturday, Oct. 18
3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
D4) Pitch Slam: Get Feedback from Editors in Real Time
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

5:45 pm to 9:30 pm

Saturday, Oct. 18
5:45 pm to 9:30 pm
Awards Night
COSI (Board buses promptly at 5:45)
Sunday, Oct. 19

7:00 am to 8:15 am

Sunday, Oct. 19
7:00 am to 8:15 am
Breakfast
Bellows Ballroom Prefunction Area, Hilton Columbus Downtown

8:15 am to 9:30 am

Sunday, Oct. 19
8:15 am to 9:30 am
Guns, gender, race and violent video games: Searching for the roots of modern aggression
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

9:30 am to 10:30 am

Sunday, Oct. 19
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Here comes CRISPR: The game-changing power of genome engineering
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

10:30 am to 11:00 am

Sunday, Oct. 19
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Break
Bellows Ballroom Prefunction Area, Hilton Columbus Downtown

10:30 am to 12:30 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Byrd Polar Research Center tour
Bus departs from Hilton and drops off at the Ohio Union for Lunch with a Scientist

11:00 am to 12:15 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Billions and billions of molecules: Exploring chemical space
Emerson Burkhart AB, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Sunday, Oct. 19
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Navigating a minefield: Seeking and telling the truth about genetically modified crops
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

12:15 pm to 2:15 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
12:15 pm to 2:15 pm
Lunch With a Scientist
Board buses at Hilton

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm
2014 Patrusky Lecture: The human evolutionary journey
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

3:15 pm to 3:30 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm
Break
Bellows Ballroom Prefunction Area, Hilton Columbus Downtown

3:15 pm to 5:15 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
3:15 pm to 5:15 pm
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park tour
Board bus at Hilton

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Personal transportation for sustainable megacities
Emerson Burkhart AB, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Sunday, Oct. 19
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Shaking the bird family tree
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
The long-awaited dawn of neutrino astronomy
Emerson Burkhart AB, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Sunday, Oct. 19
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Updating the HPV story: A cancer’s shifting “behavioral genomics”
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Sunday, Oct. 19
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
ScienceWriters Party
Barley’s Brewing Company
Monday, Oct. 20

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Monday, Oct. 20
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Breakfast
Bellows Ballroom Prefunction Area

8:30 am to 9:30 am

Monday, Oct. 20
8:30 am to 9:30 am
El Niño and human history: The record written in tropical glaciers
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

9:30 am to 10:30 am

Monday, Oct. 20
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Beyond graphene: Tunable one-atom-thick materials for tomorrow’s technology
Emerson Burkhart AB, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Monday, Oct. 20
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Metabolism: A new link between marital stress, depression and health
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

10:30 am to 11:00 am

Monday, Oct. 20
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Break
Bellows Ballroom Prefunction Area, Hilton Columbus Downtown

11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Coyotes in the Loop: A close-up view of survival in the urban core
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown
Monday, Oct. 20
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Not just flocking: “Active matter” studies aim to understand wound healing, metastasis
Emerson Burkhart AB, Hilton Columbus Downtown

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Lunch
Bellows EF, Hilton Columbus Downtown

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
BICEP2: Strong support for inflationary cosmology, or a cloud of dust?
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Sports Health & Performance Institute tour
Board bus at Hilton

2:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
2:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Lessons in the communication of science from the BICEP2 story
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Break
Bellows Ballroom Prefunction Area, Hilton Columbus Downtown

2:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
2:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Center for Automotive Research/Driving Simulation Lab tour
Board bus at Hilton

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Progress toward targeted cancer therapies: A new role for microRNA
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Prediction, perception and how we shape memory
Bellows ABCD, Hilton Columbus Downtown

6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Monday, Oct. 20
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Short North Dine Around
Varies
Tuesday, Oct. 21

7:30 am to 4:00 pm

Tuesday, Oct. 21
7:30 am to 4:00 pm
The Wilds tour
Board bus at Hilton

9:00 am to 11:00 am

Tuesday, Oct. 21
9:00 am to 11:00 am
Byrd Polar Research Center tour
Board bus at Hilton
Tuesday, Oct. 21
9:00 am to 11:00 am
Cartoon Library and Museum tour
Board bus at Hilton

9:45 am to 11:45 am

Tuesday, Oct. 21
9:45 am to 11:45 am
The James Cancer Hospital tour
Board bus at Hilton
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