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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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