Meeting schedule

NASW workshop CASW New Horizons in Science Hosted event, trip or tour W NASW workshop registration required ($) F CASW New Horizons or hosted event (free) $ Separate registration required ($)
9Friday	11:00 am - 5:00 pm	NASW Board meeting Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Aquarium room (closed meeting)
	12:00 - 5:00 pm	Check-in Location: Main lobby, Hyatt Regency Cambridge
	1:00 - 5:00 pm	How to make awesome science video: A hands-on workshop Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Thomas Paine room	$
	1:00 - 5:00 pm	Nonfiction book proposals: A hands-on workshop Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom	$
	6:00 - 9:00 pm	Check-in Location: MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)
	6:00 - 9:00 pm	Knight Science Journalism welcome reception Location: MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)	F
	9:00 - 10:30 pm	Diversity Mixer Location: Hyatt Cambridge Regency, Paul Revere Room	W
10Saturday	7:30 - 8:00 am	Meet and greet for newcomers/students Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Crispus Attucks room	W
	7:30 - 8:45 am	Continental Breakfast Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom	W
	7:30 am - 5:30 pm	Check-in Location: Main lobby, Hyatt Regency Cambridge
	8:00 - 8:45 am	NASW membership meeting Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom
	9:00 - 10:15 am	Ethics in today's science writing landscape: A community conversation Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom	W
	9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Personal headshot photography Location: By appointment
	10:15 - 10:45 am	Break Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction	W
	10:45 am - 12:00 pm	Covering public controversies about science topics: From GMOs, to vaccines, to climate change Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room	W
	10:45 am - 12:00 pm	DIY publishing — Does it yield? Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)	W
	10:45 am - 12:00 pm	Use with no abuse: How to acquire, borrow, quote and reproduce without copyright infringement Location: Cambridge Hyatt Regency, Thomas Paine room	W
	10:45 am - 12:00 pm	What every editor needs to know Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room	W
	12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom	W
	1:30 - 2:45 pm	Embracing the B word: Branding and social media Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)	W
	1:30 - 2:45 pm	Funds for all: How to win an NASW Idea Grant Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room	W
	1:30 - 2:45 pm	Other stories: Exploring alternative narratives Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room	W
	1:30 - 2:45 pm	Using art to communicate science Location: Hyatt Cambridge Regency, Thomas Paine room	W
	2:45 - 3:15 pm	Break Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction	W
	3:15 - 4:30 pm	Data journalism for every scale and skill level Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom AB	W
	3:15 - 4:30 pm	Four writers sat in a bar: Humor and voice in science writing Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room	W
	3:15 - 4:30 pm	PIOs: How to pitch a story (without being annoying) Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom D	W
	3:15 - 4:30 pm	Power Pitch 2015 Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom C	W
	4:30 - 4:45 pm	Break Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction	W
	4:45 - 6:00 pm	Fact-checking: How to get everything perfectly right always Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom D	W
	4:45 - 6:00 pm	Sex, death, and privacy: Reporting in the first person Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room	W
	4:45 - 6:00 pm	Sexism, science-writing and solutions: Charting the future Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room	W
	4:45 - 6:00 pm	The fair contract project Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Thomas Paine room	W
	6:30 - 9:00 pm	Awards reception Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom	F
11Sunday	7:00 - 8:15 am	Continental breakfast Location: MIT Kresge Lobby (Buses depart from Hyatt)	F
	7:30 - 11:00 am	Check-in Location: MIT Kresge Lobby
	8:15 - 9:30 am	Lighting up biology: The quest to see every molecule in every cell Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Personal headshot photography Location: By appointment
	9:30 - 10:30 am	Pluto's close-up: The latest from the New Horizons mission Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	9:30 - 10:30 am	The tiny cell with a big gene "app store" Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	10:30 - 11:00 am	Break Location: MIT Kresge Lobby	F
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Next in space: Spray-on microthrusters for miniature satellites Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	The genome's mysterious UCE surveillance system Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch With a Luminary I Location: Assigned Rooms at MIT Student Center and the Broad Institute; volunteer guides will direct. Pick up lunch first at Kresge Lobby	F
	12:00 - 2:00 pm	MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center tour Location: MIT Building NW17, Room 218, 175 Albany St., Cambridge, MA (walking tour, 5 minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby, pick up lunch first at Kresge)	F
	2:00 - 3:00 pm	2015 Patrusky Lecture: The Earth’s microbiomes Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	3:00 - 3:30 pm	Break Location: MIT Kresge Lobby	F
	3:30 - 4:30 pm	Can computer science help physicists resolve the firewall paradox? Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	3:30 - 4:30 pm	Lessons from the lives of older homeless adults Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	4:30 - 5:30 pm	Controversy in the "Goldilocks zone" as the search for habitable exoplanets intensifies Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	4:30 - 5:30 pm	Vaccines and vaccine hesitancy: Lessons for science writers Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	7:00 - 10:00 pm	ScienceWriters party Location: The Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Blvd., Boston (Buses depart from Hyatt at 6:40, 6:50, 7:00, 7:20, and 7:40 pm; one bus departs from Fairfield Inn at 6:40 pm)	F
12Monday	7:15 - 8:30 am	Continental breakfast Location: MIT Kresge Lobby (Buses depart from Hyatt)	F
	8:30 - 9:30 am	Applying science to poverty Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	8:30 - 9:30 am	Money and medicine: Challenges and opportunities for science writers Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	9:30 - 10:30 am	Gathering big data on tiny devices: A path to better medical diagnosis? Location: Kresge Auditorium	F
	9:30 - 10:30 am	Mercury, fisheries and human health: Local threats and global challenges Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	9:30 am - 12:00 pm	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences tour Location: 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA; board bus at Kresge Lobby at 9:30 am for the 10-minute ride to the Harvard engineering campus.	F
	10:30 - 11:00 am	Break Location: MIT Kresge Lobby	F
	10:30 am - 2:00 pm	Boston University Photonics Center tour Location: 8 St. Mary's St., Boston, MA (board bus at Kresge Lobby at 10:30 am; 10-minute ride to Boston University)	F
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Air pollution and hurricanes: A connection? Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center	F
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	How technology designers will dictate our civic future Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch With a Luminary II Location: Assigned Rooms at MIT Student Center, Kresge, and MIT Building 4; volunteer guides will direct. Pick up lunch first at Kresge Lobby	F
	12:00 - 2:00 pm	The ingredients for innovation in Kendall Square Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center. Organized by KSJ; participants register as part of Lunch With a Luminary; pick up lunch at Kresge Lobby.	F
	2:00 - 3:00 pm	New observations and new ideas about cosmic inflation Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	2:00 - 4:30 pm	Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories tour Location: Board bus at Kresge Lobby at 2:00 pm for the 15-minute ride to BU's medical campus.	F
	3:00 - 3:30 pm	Break Location: MIT Kresge Lobby	F
	3:00 - 5:00 pm	LabCentral tour Location: 700 Main St., Cambridge (walking tour, 10-minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby)	F
	3:30 - 5:30 pm	Merchants of Doubt film screening and discussion Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium	F
	5:30 - 7:30 pm	Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT tour Location: 320 Charles Street, Cambridge (bus departs from Kresge Lobby)	F
	5:30 - 8:00 pm	Dine around Cambridge and Boston Location: Varies
	8:00 - 10:00 pm	Story Collider Location: Oberon Theater, 2 Arrow Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Attendees are responsible for their own travel to Harvard Square. Admission at the door by will-call based on purchase at registration.	$
13Tuesday	7:15 am - 5:00 pm	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tour Location: Buses depart from Hyatt Regency Cambridge	$
	9:00 - 11:30 am	Biogen tour Location: 225 Binney St., Cambridge (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)	F
	9:00 - 11:30 am	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute tour Location: 450 Brookline Ave., Boston (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)	F
	9:00 - 11:30 am	Harvard Museums of Science & Culture tour Location: 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)	F
	9:00 - 11:30 am	Johnson & Johnson Innovation tour Location: 255 Main St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)	F
	9:00 - 11:30 am	Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research tour [CANCELED]	F
	9:30 am - 12:30 pm	Draper Laboratory tour Location: 555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)	F

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Friday, Oct. 9

11:00 am to 5:00 pm

NASW Board meeting

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Aquarium room (closed meeting)

12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Check-in

Main lobby, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

$ How to make awesome science video: A hands-on workshop

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Thomas Paine room

$ Nonfiction book proposals: A hands-on workshop

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Check-in

MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)

F Knight Science Journalism welcome reception

MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)

9:00 pm to 10:30 pm

W Diversity Mixer

Hyatt Cambridge Regency, Paul Revere Room

Saturday, Oct. 10

7:30 am to 8:00 am

W Meet and greet for newcomers/students

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Crispus Attucks room

7:30 am to 8:45 am

W Continental Breakfast

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom

7:30 am to 5:30 pm

Check-in

Main lobby, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

8:00 am to 8:45 am

NASW membership meeting

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom

9:00 am to 10:15 am

W Ethics in today's science writing landscape: A community conversation

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

$ Personal headshot photography

By appointment

10:15 am to 10:45 am

W Break

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction

10:45 am to 12:00 pm

W Covering public controversies about science topics: From GMOs, to vaccines, to climate change

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room

W DIY publishing — Does it yield?

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)

W Use with no abuse: How to acquire, borrow, quote and reproduce without copyright infringement

Cambridge Hyatt Regency, Thomas Paine room

W What every editor needs to know

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

W Lunch

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom

1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

W Embracing the B word: Branding and social media

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)

W Funds for all: How to win an NASW Idea Grant

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room

W Other stories: Exploring alternative narratives

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room

W Using art to communicate science

Hyatt Cambridge Regency, Thomas Paine room

2:45 pm to 3:15 pm

W Break

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction

3:15 pm to 4:30 pm

W Data journalism for every scale and skill level

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom AB

W Four writers sat in a bar: Humor and voice in science writing

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room

W PIOs: How to pitch a story (without being annoying)

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom D

W Power Pitch 2015

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom C

4:30 pm to 4:45 pm

W Break

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction

4:45 pm to 6:00 pm

W Fact-checking: How to get everything perfectly right always

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom D

W Sex, death, and privacy: Reporting in the first person

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room

W Sexism, science-writing and solutions: Charting the future

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room

W The fair contract project

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Thomas Paine room

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

F Awards reception

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom

Sunday, Oct. 11

7:00 am to 8:15 am

F Continental breakfast

MIT Kresge Lobby (Buses depart from Hyatt)

7:30 am to 11:00 am

Check-in

MIT Kresge Lobby

8:15 am to 9:30 am

F Lighting up biology: The quest to see every molecule in every cell

MIT Kresge Auditorium

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

$ Personal headshot photography

By appointment

9:30 am to 10:30 am

F Pluto's close-up: The latest from the New Horizons mission

MIT Kresge Auditorium

F The tiny cell with a big gene "app store"

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

10:30 am to 11:00 am

F Break

MIT Kresge Lobby

11:00 am to 12:00 pm

F Next in space: Spray-on microthrusters for miniature satellites

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

F The genome's mysterious UCE surveillance system

MIT Kresge Auditorium

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

F Lunch With a Luminary I

Assigned Rooms at MIT Student Center and the Broad Institute; volunteer guides will direct. Pick up lunch first at Kresge Lobby

F MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center tour

MIT Building NW17, Room 218, 175 Albany St., Cambridge, MA (walking tour, 5 minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby, pick up lunch first at Kresge)

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

F 2015 Patrusky Lecture: The Earth’s microbiomes

MIT Kresge Auditorium

3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

F Break

MIT Kresge Lobby

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

F Can computer science help physicists resolve the firewall paradox?

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

F Lessons from the lives of older homeless adults

MIT Kresge Auditorium

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

F Controversy in the "Goldilocks zone" as the search for habitable exoplanets intensifies

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

F Vaccines and vaccine hesitancy: Lessons for science writers

MIT Kresge Auditorium

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

F ScienceWriters party

The Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Blvd., Boston (Buses depart from Hyatt at 6:40, 6:50, 7:00, 7:20, and 7:40 pm; one bus departs from Fairfield Inn at 6:40 pm)

Monday, Oct. 12

7:15 am to 8:30 am

F Continental breakfast

MIT Kresge Lobby (Buses depart from Hyatt)

8:30 am to 9:30 am

F Applying science to poverty

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

F Money and medicine: Challenges and opportunities for science writers

MIT Kresge Auditorium

9:30 am to 10:30 am

F Gathering big data on tiny devices: A path to better medical diagnosis?

Kresge Auditorium

F Mercury, fisheries and human health: Local threats and global challenges

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

9:30 am to 12:00 pm

F Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences tour

29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA; board bus at Kresge Lobby at 9:30 am for the 10-minute ride to the Harvard engineering campus.

10:30 am to 11:00 am

F Break

MIT Kresge Lobby

10:30 am to 2:00 pm

F Boston University Photonics Center tour

8 St. Mary's St., Boston, MA (board bus at Kresge Lobby at 10:30 am; 10-minute ride to Boston University)

11:00 am to 12:00 pm

F Air pollution and hurricanes: A connection?

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center

F How technology designers will dictate our civic future

MIT Kresge Auditorium

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

F Lunch With a Luminary II

Assigned Rooms at MIT Student Center, Kresge, and MIT Building 4; volunteer guides will direct. Pick up lunch first at Kresge Lobby

F The ingredients for innovation in Kendall Square

La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center. Organized by KSJ; participants register as part of Lunch With a Luminary; pick up lunch at Kresge Lobby.

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

F New observations and new ideas about cosmic inflation

MIT Kresge Auditorium

2:00 pm to 4:30 pm

F Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories tour

Board bus at Kresge Lobby at 2:00 pm for the 15-minute ride to BU's medical campus.

3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

F Break

MIT Kresge Lobby

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

F LabCentral tour

700 Main St., Cambridge (walking tour, 10-minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby)

3:30 pm to 5:30 pm

F Merchants of Doubt film screening and discussion

MIT Kresge Auditorium

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

F Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT tour

320 Charles Street, Cambridge (bus departs from Kresge Lobby)

5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Dine around Cambridge and Boston

Varies

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

$ Story Collider

Oberon Theater, 2 Arrow Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Attendees are responsible for their own travel to Harvard Square. Admission at the door by will-call based on purchase at registration.

Tuesday, Oct. 13