#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.
Lindley: Ready for Flu Season
Robin Lindley, , has reassuring news about pandemics in an interview with Dr Peter C. Doherty, immunologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and author of Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know and Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our...
Long: A Time for Hope
During the darkest month of the year, Priscilla Long muses on environmental disaster, species extinction, climate change…and hope. In "Notes Composed in the Dark of our Time," a guest editorial for Terrain.org (as Priscilla describes it, “a fine online magazine of the...
Hopp: Neah Bay Intrigue
Thomas P. Hopp puts medical sleuth Dr. Peyton McKean back to work in a new thriller, The Neah Virus. Northwesterners will recognize the nonfiction elements—Neah Bay and controversies over Native American whale-hunting rights. NSWAnians will note references to the...
Doughton: Seahawks and Gray Matter
Sandi Doughton connects football, war injuries, and dementia. The common node is Microsoft Founder and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen, who has long followed—and funded—neuroscience and brain research. In this article for the Seattle Times, Sandi relates how Seattle...
Webber: Cool Beans. And Butterflies
Beans and butterflies have kept Rachel Webber busy lately. Writing for Washington State University, Rachel tells about a program to get students interested in nutrition by harvesting beans (note the link to an heirloom recipe in this version). She also relates an...