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Friday, Oct. 12
Saturday, Oct. 13
Sunday, Oct. 14
Monday, Oct. 15
Tuesday, Oct. 16

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Friday, Oct. 12

12:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Check-in
Marvin Center, Great Hall (street level)

1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

$ Getting Real: Science Writing in AR and VR
Marvin Center, Room 307
W SciWriUnited: A regional SciWri groups congress
Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

$ Interactive workshop: How to submit a successful pitch
Marvin Center, Room 405

3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

F Butterfly CRISPR workshop at the GW Department of Biological Sciences
Science and Engineering Hall, 8th floor; check in at the SEH lobby infodesk at 3:15.
F Tour of the Harlan Greenhouse at the GW Department of Biological Sciences
Science and Engineering Hall, 8th floor; check in at the SEH infodesk at 3:15.

4:30 pm to 5:15 pm

F Butterfly CRISPR workshop at the GW Department of Biological Sciences
Science and Engineering Hall, 8th floor; check in at the SEH lobby infodesk at 4:15.
F Tour of the Harlan Greenhouse at the GW Department of Biological Sciences
Science and Engineering Hall, 8th floor; check in at the SEH lobby infodesk at 4:15.

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

F Welcome reception
Science and Engineering Hall

8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Diversity mixer
Stoney’s on L, 2101 L St. NW #103
Saturday, Oct. 13

7:30 am to 8:15 am

NASW membership meeting + light breakfast
Marvin Center, Grand Ballroom

8:00 am to 6:00 pm

Check-in
Marvin Center, Great Hall (street level)

8:30 am to 9:45 am

W Plenary: In the Trump era, whose job is it to build public trust in science?
Lisner Auditorium

10:15 am to 11:45 am

W Apocalypse how? The challenge of writing freshly about huge intractable problems
Lisner Auditorium
W Communicating ciencia II: Engaging the changing faces and voices of mass media
Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom
W Congratulations, you're a manager! Now what?
Marvin Center, Grand Ballroom
W How to get paid: Dealing with delinquent clients
Marvin Center, Room 309
W Optimizing Twitter for science communication
Jack Morton Auditorium

11:45 am to 2:00 pm

W Lunch break
Visit your choice of multiple local establishments for good eats + good company

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

$ Lunch Roundtable: Balancing Parenting and Freelancing
Marvin Center, 402-404

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

W #SciWriMentoring
Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom
W Coping strategies for the stressed-out science writer
Marvin Center, Room 309

2:00 pm to 3:15 pm

W Preprints: Best practices for science journalists and communicators
Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom
W Raising your voice: Using essay techniques in science writing
Lisner Auditorium
W Show, not tell: The art of writing science videos
Jack Morton Auditorium
W Talking with young people about science in the age of #fakenews
Marvin Center, Room 309
W We've got the beat: How to create an area of expertise as a science writer
Marvin Center, Grand Ballroom

3:15 pm to 3:45 pm

W Afternoon Break
Marvin Center: Grand and Continental Ballrooms

3:45 pm to 5:00 pm

W Live interviewing: Science up close and personal
Jack Morton Auditorium
W Oh now I get it: Training scientists to communicate clearly
Marvin Center, Grand Ballroom
W Pitch Slam 2018: Get feedback from editors in real time
Lisner Auditorium
W So you think you want to edit?
Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom

5:15 pm to 6:30 pm

W Science writer for hire: A freelancer-editor-PIO meet-and-greet
Marvin Center, Room 309

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

F ScienceWriters Annual Awards Night
Washington Marriott Georgetown
Sunday, Oct. 14

7:45 am to 8:45 am

F Continental breakfast
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

7:45 am to 7:00 pm

F Exhibit Hall open
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

8:00 am to 11:00 am

F Check-in
Marvin Center Third Floor

8:45 am to 10:00 am

F Preventing violence against women and girls: What is the role of science?
Lisner Auditorium

10:05 am to 11:05 am

F Science + Science Writing: The Wild West of stem cell therapy
Lisner Auditorium
F Wounds, plants, and poisons: Zooming in on cellular processes to solve problems on the farm and battlefield
Jack Morton Auditorium

11:05 am to 11:30 am

F Coffee break
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

11:30 am to 12:30 pm

F Kilauea: High-tech observation gives scientists a look inside a restless planet
Lisner Auditorium
F Science + Science Writing: Weird science: Case studies in communicating quantum physics
Jack Morton Auditorium

12:30 pm to 2:30 pm

F Lunch with a Scientist
Various

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

F Patrusky Lecture: Systemic flaws in the biomedical research enterprise
Lisner Auditorium

3:30 pm to 4:00 pm

F Coffee break
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

F Discovery, retraction, and crisis: How and why press reporting on science matters
Jack Morton Auditorium
F Troubled intersections: Police violence, gentrification, and HIV/AIDS prevention
Lisner Auditorium

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

F ScienceWriters reception
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom
Monday, Oct. 15

7:45 am to 8:30 am

F Continental breakfast
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

7:45 am to 5:00 pm

F Exhibit Hall open
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

8:30 am to 9:30 am

F A detailed X-ray map of the galactic plane
Jack Morton Auditorium
F Differential privacy: Science provides researchers and census-takers a better way to protect personal data
Lisner Auditorium

9:00 am to 10:40 am

F Tour of GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center with emphasis on biomedical microscopy
Science and Engineering Hall, check in at lobby infodesk

9:35 am to 10:35 am

F Dams in Amazonia: A developing climate threat
Jack Morton Auditorium
F From no return: The Slave Wrecks Project and the 221-year journey of the slave ship São José
Lisner Auditorium

10:35 am to 10:50 am

F Coffee break
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

10:50 am to 11:50 am

F Apollo plus 50: The past, present, and future of the space program
Lisner Auditorium

11:50 am to 1:00 pm

Lunch break
Visit your choice of multiple local establishments for good eats + good company

12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

F Lunchtime yoga
GW Milken Institute School of Public Health

12:15 pm to 2:00 pm

F Tour of GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center with emphasis on nanofabrication techniques
Science and Engineering Hall, check in at lobby infodesk

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

F Autism research: New questions about the developing brain
Lisner Auditorium

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

F Science + Science Writing: The Amazon in crisis
Lisner Auditorium

3:00 pm to 3:15 pm

F Coffee break
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Continental Ballroom

3:00 pm to 4:45 pm

F Tour of GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center with emphasis on biomedical microscopy
Science and Engineering Hall, check in at lobby infodesk

3:15 pm to 4:05 pm

F Climate science on trial
Lisner Auditorium

4:05 pm to 4:55 pm

F Chemical exposures and consumer health: The case of uterine fibroids
Lisner Auditorium
Tuesday, Oct. 16

8:00 am to 12:30 pm

F USP field trip: The science of quality standards
Rockville, MD. Van will depart from/return to the Washington Marriott GeorgetownD

8:00 am to 5:00 pm

$ National Association of Science Writers Information Access Summit
Marvin Center (800 21st Street NW) Room 309

8:30 am to 12:30 pm

F MedImmune field trip: Beyond biotech
Gaithersburg, MD. Bus will depart from/return to the Washington Marriott Georgetown.

9:00 am to 12:00 pm

F Georgetown University Medical Center field trip: Just because we can, should we?
Washington, DC. Bus will depart from/return to the Washington Marriott Georgetown.
F University of Maryland: Next-generation engineering
College Park, MD. Bus will depart from/return to the Washington Marriott Georgetown.
F University of Maryland: Quantum computing
College Park, MD. Bus will depart from/return to the Washington Marriott Georgetown.
F University of Maryland: Virtual and augmented reality
College Park, Md. Bus will depart/return to the Washington Marriott Georgetown.

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

F National Institute of Standards and Technology field trip: Not your standard tour
Gaithersburg, MD. Bus will depart from/return to the Washington Marriott Georgetown.
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