by Matt Vivion | Apr 16, 2012 | Past Events
Watch the video. Local science communicators met April 16 at the inaugural ScienceOnline Seattle event. The panel discussion at the University of Washington included the following participants: Lisa Graumlich, UW College of the Environment. Lisa is the dean of a...
by Matt Vivion | Apr 1, 2012 | Past Events
Steve Hootman, director of the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in Federal Way, gave NSWA members and friends a tour of the garden on March 31. Participants saw more than 100 different species in bloom. Steve has been the director of this well known garden for 20...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
David B. Williams uses the centennial of Robert F. Scott’s final journal entry to explain what is happening to the bodies of Scott and his team who froze to death near the South Pole in 1912. They are in a tent in a snow cairn that is slowly traveling toward the...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
Get a sane, objective guide to the Obamacare Supreme Court case—what’s happened so far and what the ruling will mean when it comes in June—from Michael McCarthy, M.D. His web service, Seattle/LocalHealthGuide, gathers and presents this and other independent medical...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
iphone, iPad, iPS* cells, step aside for iGEM, writes Sally James for UW Today. The annual synthetic biology competition was won by a University of Washington team in 2011. (Wait, NSWA president Sally James does more than run NSWA, represent us, and arrange fabulous...