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03.15.11
Students Report, Network at AAAS Annual Meeting
Seven students from the Texas
A&M University science and technology journalism graduate
program attended the 2011 American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, held February 17-21 in
Washington, DC. Their activities included covering science
communication sessions for Science Editor, the Council of Science Editors
periodical.
The students also attended some of
the many science sessions. "The number of sessions and all of the
different topics at the AAAS conference made me feel like a kid in
a candy store," said Katie Cowart, a first-year student.
Besides attending sessions, the
students took advantage of networking opportunities. One
opportunity was the internship fair, where students spoke briefly
with representatives of many publications, research institutions,
and other internship sites. This event, organized by the National
Association of Science Writers, also was a chance to meet students
from other programs.
The meeting provided "celebrity
sightings" as well. Among attendees were Deborah Blum, one of the
editors of A Field Guide
for Science Writers (a
book used in the program); editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina and
columnist Steve Mirsky, both of Scientific American; and Alan Boyle, science editor for
msnbc.com.
STJR student Alex Arreola and Scientific
American columnist Steve Mirsky
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