Summer 2009

From the Chair

New members

Sci Comm news

Eurochat

Feature: The day CERN was more popular than NASA

Feature: Biding time

Feature: The importance
of good design

Feature: From around the world

Event Report: The
numbers game

Event Report: When lives are on the line

Event Report: The new media officers

Event Report: Achieving global coverage

Interview: Ian Sample,
The Guardian

Stempra newsletter

Sci Comm news

New publication - HFE booklet:
‘Hype, Hope and Hybrids: Science, policy and media perspectives of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill’ is a collection of personal reflections from scientists, charities, funders and politicians involved in the recent media debate about admixed human embryos. It includes a brief chronology of the debate, 11 short essays and an analysis of newspaper coverage of the issue.

The publication was supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, the Science Media Centre (SMC) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) and was edited by Dr Geoff Watts. Copies will soon be distributed to all the press officers registered with the SMC.

If you haven’t received one and would like to read it contact Nick Hillier at AMS for a printed copy (email: nick.hillier@acmedsci.ac.uk) or read it online: http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/index.php?pid=101&puid=151

If you have any news, dates or announcenements for the next issue of the Stempra newsletter, please contact Laura Nelson at newsletter@stempra.org.uk. 

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