Students self-reported that the sessions on science ethics were helpful and that after the course they could more easily identify scientific wrongdoing.
"Practically, sometimes, you can't abide by the science," said screenwriter Alex Tse at a session on the science of superheroes here this morning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW).
Meanwhile, a session on teaching science journalism in the Arabic-speaking world lost one of its speakers because Israeli officials at a checkpoint prevented Palestinian journalism professor Farid Abu Dheir of the An-Najah Nablusal University in Nablus from leaving the occupied West Bank.
At last week's session on forensic science in Washington, Max Houck explained that he and his co-author, Bruce Budowle, a senior scientist at the F.B.I.
During the first-year orientation week, I attended an information session on the sciences where faculty members from biology, chemistry, physics, and geology discussed each of their disciplines.
IF YOU GO Some resorts offer stargazing sessions that focus on science and on the stars' cultural significance.
The arguments spilled over into a stormy session on "gender mainstreaming" in science.
A unique feature of the conference was a discussion session on how advanced genomic sciences can be integrated into the framework of public health and government policies to combat infectious diseases.
Q: In a second session on the following Sunday, where Science Careers helped facilitate a roundtable, you asked doctorate-holders what they need to progress in their careers.
We won't just be covering economics – there are sessions on sport, society, science and technology, politics, environment, food and culture.
