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SANDSWA Past Events
  • Endangered Species Lecture: Zoonotic Diseases (Beckman Center, Wild Animal Park)

  • Scripps Oceanography Centennial and Surfside Science open house

  • The State of International Science Writing. Speaker: James Cornell, president, International Science Writers Association (ISWA)

  • Nanotechnology and the Life Sciences (host: Burnham Institute for Medical Research)

  • The Science of Horseracing (location: Del Mar Thoroughbred Club)

  • California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)
Field Trips
  • Palomar Observatory tour and telescope viewing
Workshops
  • UCSD News Media Workshop, Drug Targets: Understanding Disease at the Level of Individual Molecules

  • News Media Workshop: The Basics of Clinical Advances (sponsor: National Cancer Institute)

  • Nature-writing workshop at Torrey Pines State Reserve: led by Jan Daniels, EcoExpressions

  • Inaugural SANDSWA Science Writing Workshop (location: Beckman Center, San Diego Wild Animal Park)
Networking
  • Press Reception, American Chemical Society Annual Meeting. Speaker: Robert Wolke author of What Einstein Took his Cook: Kitchen Science Explained

  • Summer Social at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

  • Book Exchange (hosted by the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center)
Book Signings
  • Mitch Waldrop author of The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

  • Timothy Ferris author of Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe

  • Tom Siegfried author of Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time

  • Chris Mooney author of The Republican War on Science


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