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2009 Media Fellow to Work at
Chicago Tribune
The APS will once again sponsor a AAAS Mass Media Fellow
for 2009: Vanessa McMains of the Graduate Partnership Program of the
National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University. She did her
undergraduate work at the University of Maryland.
McMains will work as a science journalist this summer at the Chicago
Tribune. The AAAS fellows spend 10 weeks developing their ability to
communicate complex scientific issues to non-scientists and improving public
understanding of science. Participating media outlets include newspapers,
magazines, online news outlets, and radio and television stations.
Past APS-sponsored fellows have worked at the Sacramento Bee, the
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Scientific American and WNBC-TV in
New York City.
McMains has already done a fair amount of science writing. She has
contributed to The NIH Catalyst, a bimonthly newsletter published for
the clinical and basic researchers within NIH. She also writes for NIH
Research Matters and The GSChronicles, an e-newsletter for
graduate students at NIH.
Experimental Biology 2009
The Communications Department distributed 11 press
releases related to abstracts presented at Experimental Biology this year.
The releases, which you can find at
www.the-aps.org/press, are as follows:
- Smoke From Cigarettes, Cooking Oil, Wood, Shift Male
Cardiovascular System Into Overdrive
- Exercise-Exposed Fetuses Have Improved Breathing
Movements In Utero, A Marker For Healthy Development
- Differences Among Exercisers And Non-Exercisers
During Pregnancy
- Low Lead Levels In Children Can Affect Cardiovascular
Responses To Stress
- Stress Of Isolation Early In Life Linked To Enhanced
Juvenile Response To Cocaine
- Oral Contraceptives Impair Muscle Gains In Young
Women
- A Computational Model Examines the Pathways of
Alzheimer’s That Strikes at the Young
- “Mirthful Laughter,” Coupled With Standard Diabetic
Treatment, Raises Good Cholesterol And May Lower Heart Attack Risk
- “ANTEDRUGS”: A Safer Approach To Drug Therapy
- Caffeine Appears To Be Beneficial In Males–But Not
Females–With Lou Gehrig’s Disease
- Drugs For Male Sexual Dysfunction Show Promise In The
Lab For Treating Female Sexual Disorders
In addition, the Communications Department distributed the
following EB-related releases:
- Translating the Conversation Between the Brain and
Blood Vessels
- Inhaling A Heart Attack: How Air Pollution Can Cause
Heart Disease
- Symposium to Look at Genetic Basis of Exercise
These releases generated a considerable buzz in the media.
Some of the media that ran stories were:
- ABC News
- BBC News (UK)
- Calcutta Telegraph
- Channel 4 News (UK)
- Daily Telegraph (Australia)
- Forbes
- Fox News
- Mail on Sunday (UK)
- Market Watch
- MSNBC
- Reuters
- Scotsman
- Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald
- Tehran Times
- US News & World Report
- WebMD
We also highlighted the forum on Environmental Cardiology
and the forum on the Genetics of Exercise in podcasts leading up to the
conference. We plan to have our Cannon and Bowditch lecturers appear on the
May podcast. Don’t forget to listen at
www.lifelines.tv. |
