NASW Members: If you are a U.S. federal employee or contractor affected by the current furlough and work stoppage, NASW will waive late fees if you need to delay your membership renewal past our Jan 31st early discount deadline.
2018 was a busy year to be part of NASW. View some of the highlights in this infographic created by member Kasha Patel.
It's time to showcase your best work of the year with one of NASW's two award programs.
Congratulations to the 2019 NASW Travel Fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Feb. 14-17 in Washington, D.C. These 10 undergraduate students from around the U.S.
From Zeus' thunderbolts to sci-fi fiction, films, and comics, death rays rouse public interest. The Pentagon has explored the potential of the laser, invented in the late 1950s, to shoot down ballistic missiles and achieve other military aims. That involved many alluring but ultimately false starts, Jeff Hecht reports in Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon.
What comprises evidence at a crime scene? What do forensic entomologists do? Forensic scientists face a profusion of daunting tasks, some as rare as determining the effects of a poison dart filled with ricin or tea containing active radionucleotide polonium-210. In The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book, Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas Svarney reveal the field's mysteries.
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech," Mark Twain asserted. In Public Speaking Super Powers, Carma Spence tells how to structure a speech for coherence and flexibility, develop the right stories for your message, and overcome fears of speaking in public. With practice, Spence maintains, everyone can become a better public speaker.