#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Hendrickson: Oh, What a Beautiful HMORN
Janet Hendrickson takes her new MS in health communication and dives into the deep end in a news post on computed tomography (CT) for children. CT is a powerful medical imaging method but can deliver high radiation doses. Janet, a research support specialist for Group...
Ross Scanlan: From Pest to Prize
Pregnancy put Adrienne Ross Scanlan in a pensive mood. In a post for the City Creatures blog for the Center for Humans and Nature, Adrienne, editor of Blue Lyra Review, contemplates starlings. Are the urban birds “weeds with wings” or a sign of freedom to a...
Matrajt: Go Girl
New NSWA member Graciela Matrajt profiles local researchers for the Seattle Association for Women in Science. One article tells the story of a scientist going in the unusual direction of industry to academia (see page 6) and the other introduces us to the founder of a...
Gibbs: Megadata Health, DIY, and Nose Cameras
Wayt Gibbs is taking a break from his ground-breaking, eye-popping, mouth-watering food science work to return to freelance writing. Keep an eye on his Twitter feed @WaytGibbs to get links to his stories on , DIY circuitry, and what happens when you snake a video...
Lindley: Smells Like Victory
Robin Lindley interviews Robert Neer, author of a book on the history of napalm, for History News Network. Robin and Professor Neer give us the full story on the incendiary chemical, going much further back than Vietnam, the war that is often associated with napalm....