#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.
NWABR: Teaching with Bioethics in PLoS
Last month, it was artificial insemination and asthma in award-winning student essays. This month, NWABR, the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research, publishes in the high-impact, open-source, online journal PLoS One. Motivating students with ethical dilemmas...
Seinfeld: Guidance, Not Handcuffs
KPLU’s Keith Seinfeld, while dodging anarchists in downtown Seattle, managed to talk with Dr. Donald Berwick, former Chief of Medicare and Medicaid, about health care and politics. Berwick was in town to deliver Group Health Research Institute’s annual Birnbaum...
Weeks and Adler: Students CAN Write
Think students can’t write and don’t get science? NWABR, the begs to differ. The 2012 in their annual “Biomedical Breakthroughs and My Life” essay contest show that 7th and 8th graders get it, and can write about it. Want to get involved? Contact Reitha Weeks, program...
Long: Your Hidden Pets
Priscilla Long reminds us what we might have forgotten about spiders from basic biology class or Charlotte’s Web. They aren’t insects, they inspired Greek and Roman myths, and they motivate us (or at least Priscilla) to do housecleaning....
Doughton: Shot in the Arm
What happened to the stimulus? Sandi Doughton, Seattle Times science reporter and NSWA board member, looks at what Washington State scientists did with their stimulus money, including improving prosthetic legs, buying electron microscopes, and studying back pain. She...