by James Gaines | Apr 5, 2024 | Events
What: Science of Sand Discussion Where: Zoom When: April 9 at 7:00 pm Join us April 9 for a virtual conversation with Vince Beiser, who literally wrote the book on the sand mining crisis. He’s a Vancouver, BC-based award-winning journalist and grantee of...
by James Gaines | Jun 23, 2023 | Events
Come join NSWA this July as we watch Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”, a biopic of the J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos laboratory and father of the atom bomb. The film will star Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Florence Pugh,...
by Matt Vivion | Oct 14, 2015 | Past Events
Members and guests enjoyed a 3D showing of “The Martian” on Oct. 14 at Cinerama. Afterward, the following scientists from the UW Astrobiology program joined us next door at Cantina Lena to chat about the movie: Stephen Wood, a planetary scientist at the UW who...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
Valerie Bauman, staff writer for Puget Sound Business Journal, writes about health care, including a $12 million grant to Seattle researchers to support studies on gene replacement therapy for “bubble boy disease”. (But admit it, you want to hear the Hollywood gossip...