#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.
Nelson: U.S. Water Crisis
Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) wrote a piece for Time Magazine on the crisis of access to clean water and sanitation in the U.S., where more than 2 million do not have indoor plumbing and many more do not have safe drinking water. Keying off of the recent environmental...
Hu: Botanical Sexism?
Jane C. Hu (@jane_c_hu) was awarded an honorable mention in the journalism category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her story in Slate on “botanical sexism,” which the judges said was “a great example of a fun and interesting debunking article.” The...
Zaske: Bear Research
Sara Zaske (@WSUZaske), writing for Washington State University, was awarded an honorable mention in the institutional category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her piece on the WSU Bear Center. She shows how researchers at the center work with the...
Scanlan: ‘Pests’ Review
Adrienne Ross Scanlan wrote a review of “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” by Bethany Brookshire for the New York Journal of Books. Brookshire explains how cultural perceptions, changes in human society and human philosophy assign negative or positive...
Johnson-Groh: Neutrino Surprises
Mara Johnson-Groh won the institutional category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her story on neutrinos in Symmetry Magazine. The judges wrote that her piece “did a great job of translating an incredibly tricky subject": the second-most common...