The San Diego Science Writers Association (SANDSWA) recently asked members to nominate their favorite pieces of local science communications published this year. We are proud to showcase those science stories on our list of 2025 SciComm Highlights.
SANDSWA book club recap:ย Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breatheย by Carl Zimmer
Author Carl Zimmer joined the SANDSWA Book Club via Zoom. This year, SANDSWAโs May book club selection wasย Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, the latest volume by science writer and journalistย Carl Zimmer. Our meeting, which took place at an unassuming Starbucks in East County, was extraordinary with Zimmer joining us on Zoom …
Meet the 2024 SANDSWA Travel Grant Winner
By Madeline McCurry-Schmidt The San Diego Association of Science Writers (SANDSWA) is pleased to announce that Swetha Kasetty Ramakrishnan has received the 2024 SANDSWA Travel Grant. This $500 grant will help fund Ramakrishnanโs trip to Raleigh, NC, this fall for the ScienceWriters 2024 conference, hosted by the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the …
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Exploring the Ocean: SANDSWA Tours Scripps Institution of Oceanography
By Swetha Kasetty Ramakrishnan SANDSWA invited us to tour the renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The event was organized by Brittany Hook, a member of the Scripps Communications team and a SANDSWA board member. We enjoyed an opportunity to visit the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, a research facility normally closed …
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Materializing Opportunities: Highlights from CAMX
By Neil Thompson CAMX came to San Diego, and I was there to take it in. Whatโs CAMX you ask? Itโs the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, an annual event jointly put on by the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). A SAMPE member …
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