APS developed eight press releases highlighting scientific presentations being presented at the Experimental Biology (EB) meeting in April. The releases are posted on the APS press page, www.The-APS.org/press. Media coverage of our releases included placements on CNN.com, Science Magazine, TimeMagazine.com, US News & World Reports and WebMD.
- Announcement of Cannon and Bowditch Award Winners
APS also issued a release announcing Jeffrey Fredberg as the Walter B. Cannon Award lecturer. The lecture is the Society’s pre-eminent award lecture and is designed to recognize an outstanding scientist for his or her contributions to the field. Dr. Fredberg’s lecture was entitled “A Hard Day in the Life of a Soft Cell.” In addition, staff issued a release announcing that Ohio State University’s Paul Janssen had received the Henry Pickering Bowditch award for his original and outstanding work on novel mechanisms and relaxation in the heart. His lecture was entitled “Myocardial Contraction-Relaxation Coupling.” The releases are posted on the APS press page at www.The-APS.org/press.
- APS/AAAS Mass Media Fellow
The 2010 APS/AAAS Mass Media Fellow will be Rachel Bernstein. Ms. Bernstein is a pre-doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. She will serve her internship at the Los Angeles Times.
- Media Outreach for August 2010 Meetings
Staff has begun to prepare identifying the abstracts it will profile for the two APS meetings this August, Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World (August 4-7), and Inflammation, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease (August 25-28).