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 ($)   
9Friday11:00 am - 5:00 pmNASW Board meeting
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Aquarium room (closed meeting)
12:00 - 5:00 pmCheck-in
Location: Main lobby, Hyatt Regency Cambridge
1:00 - 5:00 pmHow to make awesome science video: A hands-on workshop
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Thomas Paine room
$
1:00 - 5:00 pmNonfiction book proposals: A hands-on workshop
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom
$
6:00 - 9:00 pmCheck-in
Location: MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)
6:00 - 9:00 pmKnight Science Journalism welcome reception
Location: MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)
F
9:00 - 10:30 pmDiversity Mixer
Location: Hyatt Cambridge Regency, Paul Revere Room
W
10Saturday7:30 - 8:00 amMeet and greet for newcomers/students
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Crispus Attucks room
W
7:30 - 8:45 amContinental Breakfast
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom
W
7:30 am - 5:30 pmCheck-in
Location: Main lobby, Hyatt Regency Cambridge
8:00 - 8:45 amNASW membership meeting
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom
9:00 - 10:15 amEthics in today's science writing landscape: A community conversation
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom
W
9:00 am - 5:00 pmPersonal headshot photography
Location: By appointment
10:15 - 10:45 amBreak
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction
W
10:45 am - 12:00 pmCovering 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 pmDIY publishing — Does it yield?
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)
W
10:45 am - 12:00 pmUse 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 pmWhat every editor needs to know
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room
W
12:00 - 1:30 pmLunch
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom
W
1:30 - 2:45 pmEmbracing the B word: Branding and social media
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)
W
1:30 - 2:45 pmFunds for all: How to win an NASW Idea Grant
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room
W
1:30 - 2:45 pmOther stories: Exploring alternative narratives
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room
W
1:30 - 2:45 pmUsing art to communicate science
Location: Hyatt Cambridge Regency, Thomas Paine room
W
2:45 - 3:15 pmBreak
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction
W
3:15 - 4:30 pmData journalism for every scale and skill level
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom AB
W
3:15 - 4:30 pmFour writers sat in a bar:  Humor and voice in science writing
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room
W
3:15 - 4:30 pmPIOs: How to pitch a story (without being annoying)
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom D
W
3:15 - 4:30 pmPower Pitch 2015
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom C
W
4:30 - 4:45 pmBreak
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction
W
4:45 - 6:00 pmFact-checking: How to get everything perfectly right always
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom D
W
4:45 - 6:00 pmSex, death, and privacy: Reporting in the first person
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, William Dawes room
W
4:45 - 6:00 pmSexism, science-writing and solutions: Charting the future
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Paul Revere room
W
4:45 - 6:00 pmThe fair contract project
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Thomas Paine room
W
6:30 - 9:00 pmAwards reception
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom
F
11Sunday7:00 - 8:15 amContinental breakfast
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby (Buses depart from Hyatt)
F
7:30 - 11:00 amCheck-in
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby
8:15 - 9:30 amLighting up biology: The quest to see every molecule in every cell
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
9:00 am - 5:00 pmPersonal headshot photography
Location: By appointment
9:30 - 10:30 amPluto's close-up: The latest from the New Horizons mission
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
9:30 - 10:30 amThe tiny cell with a big gene "app store"
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center
F
10:30 - 11:00 amBreak
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby
F
11:00 am - 12:00 pmNext in space: Spray-on microthrusters for miniature satellites
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center
F
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe genome's mysterious UCE surveillance system
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
12:00 - 2:00 pmLunch 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 pmMIT 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 pm2015 Patrusky Lecture: The Earth’s microbiomes
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
3:00 - 3:30 pmBreak
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby
F
3:30 - 4:30 pmCan computer science help physicists resolve the firewall paradox?
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center
F
3:30 - 4:30 pmLessons from the lives of older homeless adults
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
4:30 - 5:30 pmControversy 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 pmVaccines and vaccine hesitancy: Lessons for science writers
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
7:00 - 10:00 pmScienceWriters 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
12Monday7:15 - 8:30 amContinental breakfast
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby (Buses depart from Hyatt)
F
8:30 - 9:30 amApplying science to poverty
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center
F
8:30 - 9:30 amMoney and medicine: Challenges and opportunities for science writers
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
9:30 - 10:30 amGathering big data on tiny devices: A path to better medical diagnosis?
Location: Kresge Auditorium
F
9:30 - 10:30 amMercury, fisheries and human health: Local threats and global challenges
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center
F
9:30 am - 12:00 pmHarvard 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 amBreak
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby
F
10:30 am - 2:00 pmBoston 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 pmAir pollution and hurricanes: A connection?
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center
F
11:00 am - 12:00 pmHow technology designers will dictate our civic future
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
12:00 - 2:00 pmLunch 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 pmThe 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 pmNew observations and new ideas about cosmic inflation
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
2:00 - 4:30 pmBoston 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 pmBreak
Location: MIT Kresge Lobby
F
3:00 - 5:00 pmLabCentral tour
Location: 700 Main St., Cambridge (walking tour, 10-minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby)
F
3:30 - 5:30 pmMerchants of Doubt film screening and discussion
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium
F
5:30 - 7:30 pmBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT tour
Location: 320 Charles Street, Cambridge (bus departs from Kresge Lobby)
F
5:30 - 8:00 pmDine around Cambridge and Boston
Location: Varies
8:00 - 10:00 pmStory 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.
$
13Tuesday7:15 am - 5:00 pmMarine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tour
Location: Buses depart from Hyatt Regency Cambridge
$
9:00 - 11:30 amBiogen tour
Location: 225 Binney St., Cambridge (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F
9:00 - 11:30 amDana-Farber Cancer Institute tour
Location: 450 Brookline Ave., Boston (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F
9:00 - 11:30 amHarvard Museums of Science & Culture tour
Location: 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F
9:00 - 11:30 amJohnson & Johnson Innovation tour
Location: 255 Main St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F
9:00 - 11:30 amNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research tour [CANCELED]F
9:30 am - 12:30 pmDraper Laboratory tour
Location: 555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F

Meeting schedule

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

10:15 am to 10:45 am

W Break
Hyatt Regency Cambridge, President's Ballroom Prefunction

10:45 am to 12:00 pm

W DIY publishing — Does it yield?
Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Charles View Ballroom (top floor of hotel)
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

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

9:30 am to 10:30 am

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

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

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

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

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

9:30 am to 10:30 am

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

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

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

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

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

7:15 am to 5:00 pm

9:00 am to 11:30 am

F Biogen tour
225 Binney St., Cambridge (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F Dana-Farber Cancer Institute tour
450 Brookline Ave., Boston (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F Harvard Museums of Science & Culture tour
26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F Johnson & Johnson Innovation tour
255 Main St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)

9:30 am to 12:30 pm

F Draper Laboratory tour
555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)

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