1. Call For Pitches: Write an article for Issue 25!

Seasoned and aspiring science writers and bloggers alike: we want to hear your ideas! Submit pitches for the Fall 2013 Issue by Friday, June 7th. 

Guidelines for submitting a pitch can be found here and, in case you’re looking for inspiration, our editorial staff maintains a list of story ideas just for you.

Send pitches or any questions to sciencereview@gmail.com.

2. Join us as an editor or layout designer!

Editors work directly with authors to sculpt the content for each issue from the first draft to its polished final form. Please briefly outline your experience and include a non-technical writing sample with your email.

Join our award-winning layout team and learn to build compelling visuals to enhance science stories. Experience with graphic design, Adobe InDesign, or Javascript is helpful but not required.

To join our fun and diverse team, email sciencereview@gmail.com to express your interest.

The BSR is proud to announce its annual Spring Seminar speaker and date.  The seminar will take place on Thursday, May 2nd at 5:00pm.  It will take place in Stanley Hall, room 421. As always, it is open and free to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!

This year we will be joined by Edwin Dobb, former senior editor and acting editor in chief of The Sciences, a publication that has been the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards, and is viewed by many as the best general interest science magazine ever published in the U.S.  An independent writer for more than 20 years, Dobb has written about the environment and many other topics for Discover, Audubon, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Magazine, and many others. For several years, he was also a contributing writer at Harper’s.

We’re very excited to bring you the Spring 2013 edition of the BSR in a new and improved digital format. Click “Read the BSR” in the menu above to start exploring. We hope that new features, like a standard format across current and past issues (back to Issue 21) and a sidebar for browsing the current issue within each article page, will make your experience as a reader more seamless. Please tell us what you think about the new look and the content of any of the articles. Leave a comment, email sciencereview@gmail.com or post on our facebook page. And if you’re a luddite, or just enjoy holding an old fashioned paper magazine in your hands like I do, you can pick up a print copy of Issue 24 on campus starting May 6th (look for our bright yellow distribution boxes!).