Science Writers Meet At Boston University For CASW's 36th Annual Briefing
(Boston, Mass.) -- More than 150 top journalists will meet with a selection of the nation's most distinguished researchers at Boston University on November 1 - 5 to explore a range of the most important new developments at the frontiers of science, medicine, and technology.
Organized each year by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, based in New York, researchers at this year's New Horizons Briefing will take a look at what's in store in the explosive fields of biology and biotechnology in the next century, present emerging interdisciplinary approaches to understanding biological systems, examine the implications of a novel form of matter that exists near absolute zero, and even spotlight the applications of chaos theory to music and images.
A full program and registration information for this year's briefing can be found at http://www.bu.edu/casw.
Each briefing covers a broad range of science and health news from astronomy to genomics, and over the years, the meetings have played a leading role in identifying new and influential scientific advances. Monoclonal antibodies and natural opiate receptors, for example, were presented at New Horizons before they had been widely reported and their practical applications had been fully realized.
In addition to offering an opportunity to make contacts with key members of the scientific community, the briefing is designed to provide reporters and writers with the background necessary to understand and interpret some of the most important emerging developments in science today. The program is news-oriented, providing an immediate source of story ideas.
Previous hosts of the New Horizons briefing have included Harvard, Rockefeller, Duke, Ohio State, Northwestern, and Stanford Universities. This year's meeting at Boston University will be presented with support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Schepens Eye Research Institute.