Meeting schedule
Meeting schedule
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NASW workshop
CASW New Horizons in Science Hosted event, trip or tour W Part of NASW workshops ($) F New Horizons or hosted (free) $ Separate fee required ($) |
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| 25Friday | 12:00-6:00 pm | Check-in Location: Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | ||
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| 1:00-5:00 pm | #SciWriUnited: A regional sciwri groups congress Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 1:00-5:00 pm | Pre-conference workshop: Digital map making for science journalists Location: Penn State Room, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 5:00-8:00 pm | Welcome reception Location: Alumni Ballroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 8:00-9:30 pm | Diversity mixer Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | |||
| 26Saturday | 7:00-7:30 am | Meet and greet for newcomers and students Location: Alumni Ballroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | |
| 7:00 am-6:30 pm | Check-in Location: Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | |||
| 7:30-8:15 am | Annual NASW membership meeting and continental breakfast Location: New Location: Boardroom, Lower Level, Nittany Lion Inn | |||
| 8:30-10:00 am | How can we solve the diversity dearth in U.S. science writing? Location: Alumni Ballroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 10:00-10:30 am | Morning coffee break Location: Atrium, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 10:30-11:45 am | Of mice and media: Rethinking how we cover basic science Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 10:30-11:45 am | PowerPitch 2019 Location: Faculty Staff Club, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 10:30-11:45 am | Science, not stigma: Navigating empowering language Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 11:45 am-1:45 pm | Annual ScienceWriters awards luncheon Location: Alumni Ballroom, Nittany Lion Inn | $ | ||
| 1:45-3:00 pm | #SciWriMentoring Location: Faculty Staff Club, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 1:45-3:00 pm | Beyond the press release: New ways to get your research story out Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 1:45-3:00 pm | Data security in an anti-science climate Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 3:00-3:30 pm | Afternoon break Location: Atrium, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 3:30-4:45 pm | Four improv tools for better storytelling Location: Faculty Staff Club, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 3:30-4:45 pm | Full disclosure: Reporting on scientists' conflicts of interest Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 3:30-4:45 pm | In the balance: Cobbling together a freelance career Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 3:30-4:45 pm | Not just white men in lab coats: Tools for scicomm inclusion Location: Alumni Ballroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 5:00-6:30 pm | COI revisited: What have we learned? Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 5:00-6:30 pm | Itching to travel: The nuts and bolts of the coveted reporting trip Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 5:00-6:30 pm | Science writer for hire: A freelancer-editor-PIO meet-and-greet Location: Faculty Staff Club, Nittany Lion Inn | W | ||
| 8:00-10:00 pm | Film Screening: Human Nature Location: Thomas Auditorium (Room 100), Thomas Building, Penn State Campus | W | ||
| 27Sunday | 7:30-9:15 am | Continental breakfast Location: Alumni Fireside Lounge, Nittany Lion Inn | F | |
| 8:45-10:00 am | A call for radically new tactics on the evolutionary battlefield of medicine Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 10:00-11:00 am | An upside-down "lab rat" for studying coral reef ecology Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 10:00-11:00 am | Curing disease with cellular circuits Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 11:00-11:20 am | Break Location: Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 11:00 am-1:00 pm | Ceramics studio tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | F | ||
| 11:00 am-1:00 pm | Radiation Science and Engineering Center (Breazeale Nuclear Reactor) tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to board transportation to location. | $ | ||
| 11:20 am-12:30 pm | New data and new ideas about the Big Bang and black holes Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 11:20 am-12:30 pm | Science + Science Writing: Going there: Tackling genetics and racism Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 12:30-2:00 pm | Lunch with a Scientist Location: Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 2:00-3:10 pm | Patrusky Lecture: Spirit and Opportunity: The Mars Exploration Rover Project Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 3:10-3:30 pm | Break Location: Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 3:30-4:30 pm | Is Antarctica's ice collapsing? An update on the science behind rising seas Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 3:30-4:30 pm | Smart textiles: Transforming our relationship with the space around us Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 4:30-5:30 pm | A report from the front lines of multimessenger astronomy Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 4:30-5:30 pm | The end of statistical significance Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 7:00-9:00 pm | Celebration Location: Alumni Ballroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 28Monday | 7:30-9:00 am | Continental breakfast Location: Alumni Fireside Lounge, Nittany Lion Inn | F | |
| 8:30-9:30 am | Science + Science Writing: The #CRISPRtwins story Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 8:30-10:30 am | Metabolomics Facility tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | F | ||
| 9:30-10:30 am | A troubled planet warms to solar geoengineering Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 9:30-10:30 am | SETI: Bringing a neglected field of astronomy in from the cold Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 10:30-10:50 am | Break Location: Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 10:30 am-12:30 pm | Astronomy Rocket Lab tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | F | ||
| 10:30 am-12:30 pm | Sensory Evaluation Center tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | $ | ||
| 10:50-11:50 am | A new fungus stalks the amphibian world Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 10:50-11:50 am | What changes in primate brains can tell us about ours Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 11:50 am-12:50 pm | Lunch and Learn: New frontiers in science journalism at the AP and The Atlantic Location: Alumni Ballroom ABC, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 12:50-1:50 pm | Science + Science Writing: When ideology or special interests hijack science topics Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 12:50-1:50 pm | Using physics to root out error and bias Location: Assembly, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 1:00-3:00 pm | CSL Behring Fermentation Facility tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | F | ||
| 1:00-3:00 pm | Stuckeman Center for Design Computing tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | F | ||
| 1:50-2:50 pm | Clearing the air on global climate and greenhouse gases Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 2:50-3:10 pm | Break Location: Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 3:00-5:00 pm | Immersive Construction (ICon) Lab tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to walk to location. | F | ||
| 3:00-5:00 pm | Materials Research Institute Nanofabrication Laboratory tour Location: The Penn State Materials Research Institute Nanofabrication Laboratory | F | ||
| 3:10-4:10 pm | Food security and climate: Attacking problems at the roots Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 4:10-5:00 pm | Why do we fall for fake news, and what can be done about it? Location: Boardroom, Nittany Lion Inn | F | ||
| 29Tuesday | 7:00-9:00 am | Continental breakfast Location: Alumni Lobby, Nittany Lion Inn | F | |
| 8:00 am-12:00 pm | Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) field trip Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to board transportation to location. | $ | ||
| 9:00 am-1:00 pm | Cow to Cone field trip Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to board transportation to location. | $ | ||
| 9:00 am-3:30 pm | Active Marcellus Shale drilling pad field trip Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to board transportation to location. | $ | ||
| 1:00-5:00 pm | Insectary field trip Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to board transportation to location. | $ | ||
| 1:15-3:45 pm | AccuWeather tour Location: Meet Penn State rep in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn to board transportation to location. | $ | ||