It’s crisis communications time at UMR, where most of the campus is without power. I work in one of the few buildings on campus that still have electricity and web access.
The outage occurred last night — ironically, during a campus celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. I got the call from our facilities director around 1 a.m.
Classes are cancelled this morning, and likely will be this afternoon.
If you missed the National Association of Science Writers‘ conference in Baltimore last weekend, you can read about many of the sessions on a conference blog of sorts. Lots of well written posts there. (Personal favorite: Adventures in Alternative Science Communication, which described a session on why talking about science need not be stodgy.) But what else should we expect from a writers conference?
You can also read the views of UMR staffer Lance Feyh, who posted about killer wasps, zombie cockroaches and other things he learned about at the conference on our science blog, Visions.
Andy writes! 