Announcing ESA's 1998 Annual Meeting
Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend the EcologicalSociety of America's 1998 Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, onAugust 2-6, 1998. This year's meeting is being held in conjunction with TheAmerican Institute for Biological Sciences and eight other s......ng Information Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend the EcologicalSociety of America's 1998 Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, onAugust 2-6, 1998. This year's meeting is being held in conjunction with TheAmerican Institute for Biological Sciences and eight other s...As The City Goes, So Goes The World: Symposium At ESA Meeting To Examine The Ecology Of Cities
...ng Information Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend the EcologicalSociety of America's 1998 Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, onAugust 2-6, 1998. This year's meeting is being held in conjunction with TheAmerican Institute for Biological Sciences and eight other s...Fall Meeting: Updated Press Conference Schedule
...ncluded here solely for the information of science writers and PIO's attending Fall Meeting.) Place: California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. You can reach CAS by public transit or car. For recorded directions, call 415-750-7145. Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Robbins-Roth, a former biotechnolo...Media Advisory: 1999 Spring Meeting -- Updated Press Conference Schedule
...y includes apress registration form, which science writers and PIOs are urged to submit(online, email, or fax) prior to the meeting. For general Spring Meetinginformation, including accommodations, consult http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm99top.html . This press conference schedule is subject to further amendme...AGU names new journalism award for David Perlman
...r Sullivan Award, which it has bestowed on science writers since 1989. The new award is named for David Perlm...re stories, and the David Perlman Award will honor writers of news stories. Full details of the awards, eligibility requirements, and an entry form are availab...Ecological Society of America and the British Ecological Society to meet
Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend a special meeting, hosted jointly by the Ecological Society of America and the British Ecological Society (BES). The meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida and will run April 10-13, 2000. The theme is "Ecology: Achievement an...NASA'S Earth Science highlights for the 80th Annual AMS Meeting
... new information technologies, while using popular writers and data visualizers to help bridge the gap between NASA's Earth science community and the general public. Steve Graham will discuss the web site available at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov in a poster presentation on Sunday, Jan. 9, at 5 p.m. a...Whitehead press seminar: Beyond the scientific frontier
...ct an impressive audience of reporters and science writers from newspapers, magazines, and journals, including your colleagues from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, ABC, and NBC. We hope to add your name to the list. The press seminar, to be held on May 10, 2000, at the W...Lasers, once the weapon of choice for writers of science fiction, then increasingly the everyday tool of the surgeon, have found yet another astonishing role -- as catalysts to aid the very beginnings of life itself. They are being used for precision drilling the 'shell' of a human egg -- a memb...AAAS seeks entries for online category in Science Journalism Awards
...Whitaker Foundation. The awards recognize science writers for outstanding reporting for a general audience and honor those individuals for their coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics. The addition of the online news category for the 2000 competition reflects the growing media for science jo...Fall 2000 meeting of the American Geophysical Union
...ntists to attend, along with more than 100 science writers and public information officers. Media representatives and PIOs are encouraged to register in advance, using the form at the end of this message. Those who do will avoid waiting on line to receive press credentials at the meeting. Abstracts: Press p...Stanford researchers win National Science Foundation grants for information technology research
...eas specific tools have been developed by compiler writers to detect common programming errors, this system will allow programmers to formulate the correctness property or safety criterion that they wish to check in their programs. It places the full power of sophisticated static and dynamic analyses in prog...Free sessions open to the public at 2001 AAAS Meeting
...0 p.m. Annals of Improbable Research, featuring writers and friends from the sillier side of science. (Continental Ballroom 1) Saturday, Feb. 17 6:30 7:30 p.m. Plenary lecture by Francis Collins, director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Instit...Announcing the Nitrogen 2001 Conference
...be minimized. Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend this conference, which will ... attend. Members of the press (including freelance writers and institutional press officers) are also exempt from registration fees and are free to attend all ...Genes don`t control human behavior, evolutionist says
...genome has genes. "It`s high time for some science writers to stop feeding nonsensical `pop` behavioral evolution to the American public, and to explain what geneticists have long known," Ehrlich continued. "Postulating an imaginary `human nature` - an evolved set of genetically determined proclivities - is...Whitehead press seminar 2001: new horizons in the post-genome world
...ct an impressive audience of reporters and science writers from newspapers, magazines, and journals, including your colleagues from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, ABC, and NBC. We hope to add your name to the list. Press seminar registration materials are enclosed. Ther...WASHINGTON - Two experienced science writers have won the American Geophysical Union's journalism awards for 2001. Glennda Chui, science writer for the San Jose Mercury-News, won the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science WritingNews, for her story, "Acid Mountain," and Richard Stone won......elf. Self-directed mail is often used by poets and writers to document the date of a work's creation and establish copyright. Donahue isn't bothered that a company is trying to capitalise on DNA copyrighting. "I was kind of waiting for something like this to happen," she says. "I'm surprised it has taken th...