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Nobel Laureate Dr. Phillip Sharp to headline Stewards of the Future Conference at NC State University

Nobel Laureate and distinguished MIT professor Dr. Phillip A. Sharp and Juan Enriquez, best-selling author and leading authority on the global impact of life sciences, will headline the conference “Stewards of the Future: Research for Human Health and Global Sustainability” … Continue reading

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Upcoming Lectures/Events

Computer scientist and pioneer of high-speed molecular dynamics simulations to speak at Carolina David E. Shaw’s special-purpose supercomputer could help researchers understand malfunctions underlying many diseases. CHAPEL HILL, NC–Understanding how protein molecules move could resolve longstanding scientific questions and help … Continue reading

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ScienceWriters 2012 – Oct. 26-30

North Carolina is going to be the proud host of the ScienceWriters 2012 meeting, Oct. 26-30 at the Raleigh Convention Center and environs.  http://www.sciencewriters2012.org/  I hope all of you can be involved in some way. (Program details, so far:http://www.sciencewriters2012.org/about) Please … Continue reading

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“GlobalClimate Change: A Primer” with Dr. Orrin Pilkey

Carolina Science Café “GlobalClimate Change: A Primer” with Dr. Orrin Pilkey Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. Back Bar, Top of the Hill restaurant, Chapel Hill Is climate change a real issue? How could it impact life in North Carolina? Dr. … Continue reading

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American Scientist Pizza Lunch 31 January

UNAIDS 2010 Report on the global AIDS epidemic. Available from: www.unaids.org/globalreport Hi all. At noon on Tuesday, Jan. 31, come hear physician-researcher David Margolis talk about his march ”Towards a Cure for AIDS.” Margolis is the principal investigator of a $32 million, NIH-funded project attempting … Continue reading

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Upcoming Events from the local American Medical Writers Association

How do you market yourself as a freelancer? January 26 | 6:30pm | An Cuisine, 2800 Renaissance Park Place, Cary Join us as Tara Hun-Dorris, owner of THD Editorial, Inc., and the publisher of the Peer Referral Network Web site … Continue reading

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American Scientist Pizza Lunch – 10/25

Misha Angrist is a geneticist and writer on the faculty at Duke University who in 2007 was the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church’s Personal Genome Project. Yep, his entire genome was sequenced and is now a public document. … Continue reading

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Win a travel award for best evolution-themed blog post

Application deadline: December 1, 2011 Are you a blogger who is interested in evolution? For the third year in a row, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is offering two travel awards to attend ScienceOnline2012, a science communication conference to … Continue reading

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Pizza Lunch is Back

After so much lethal destruction this summer in North Carolina, in the Midwest—even in western Massachusetts—you may be more curious than ever about tornadoes. At our first Pizza Lunch talk of the 2011–2012 season, come here N.C. State University atmospheric scientist … Continue reading

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Doing Science in the Open

You’re invited to a talk on October 4 by Michael Nielsen, who will be speaking on Doing Science in the Open. Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation, and recently has been working on a book called Reinventing Discovery and advocating … Continue reading

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