Thank you to all who attended #SciWri19 in State College, Pa., for professional development workshops developed by the National Association of Science Writers, briefings on scientific research presented by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and lab tours and science field trips organized by Penn State on and around its University Park campus.
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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. | $ | ||
