2015 NSWA Annual Event

More than 100 members and guests celebrated 2014, learned about brain-related technologies and enjoyed food at our annual event on Jan. 15 at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.  Check out the photos! Thanks to Mary Guiden, 2015 NSWA president, for her...

A Freelancer’s Life: Tales from the Trenches

NSWA members and guests joined the following panel of science writers at our monthly meeting on Dec. 10 to discuss freelancing. Ashley Braun works full time as a writer and editor at NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration in Seattle. But since 2011, she’s been a...

Ebola in the News

The Ebola outbreak in Africa has been dominating media coverage. Closer to home, NSWA gathered experts to talk about the outbreak from both medical and journalism points of view at our monthly meeting on Nov. 12 at University House. John Lynch, an infectious disease...

Success stories in science blogging

What makes a good blog post, and what sorts of content make readers click? Alan Boyle and Mary Guiden shared their success stories with NSWA members and guests at our monthly meeting on Sept. 10 at University House. Alan Boyle ( @b0yle ), science editor at NBC News...

NSWA Summer Party

As many of you know, we like to take a bit of a summer break from meetings. This year we decided to go into summer with a bang. We are had a no-host (that means you have to pony up the cash for food and drinks) party at Naked City Brewery on June 11.