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The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is committed to improving the quality of science news reaching the public. Comprised of a panel of distinguished journalists and scientists, CASW develops and funds programs to help reporters and writers produce accurate and informative stories about developments in science, technology, medicine and the environment.

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Professional information

Name: Rosalind Reid
Title/position: Board member
Biography: Rosalind Reid was Editor of American Scientist, the interdisciplinary magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, from 1992 to 2008. Co-organizer of the MIT/Harvard Image and Meaning workshop series on visual communication of science, she was the first Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and again took a "science immersion" leave to serve as a Fellow at the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing. Today she is Assistant Dean for External Programs af the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Executive Director of the School's Institute for Applied Computational Science. Reid wrote for newspapers in Maine and North Carolina before learning the science beat as a research news editor at North Carolina State University. She is a member of NASW, has served on awards committees for the National Science Board and American Institute of Physics and is an honorary member of Sigma Xi.