The deadline for nominations for the 2010 Communication Awards competition was April 14.  Winners will be announced at the end of September, and honored at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on October 22, 2010.

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may,as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."

-Albert Einstein

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) believes that successful communication is the heart of the Futures Initiative.  As such, the annual Communication Awards is an important component of NAKFI.  These awards are designed to recognize, promote, and encourage effective communication of science, engineering, medicine, and interdisciplinary work within and beyond the scientific community.

 

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

-Abraham Lincoln

NAKFI cultivates science writers of the future by inviting graduate students from six science writing programs across the country to attend the conference and develop task group discussion summaries and a conference overview for publication following the conference.  Students are elected by the department director or designee, and prepare for the conference by reviewing the Webcast tutorials and suggested reading, and selecting a task group in which they'd like to participate.