2013 Assembly of Delegates
Panelist: Rosalind Reid
Rosalind Reid
Executive Director
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
Rosalind Reid was Editor of American Scientist, the interdisciplinary magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, from 1992 to 2008. Co-organizer of the MIT/Harvard Image and Meaning workshop series on visual communication of science, she was the first Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 2008 Ros has been embedded in science and technology at Harvard University, serving as executive director first of the university's Initiative in Innovative Computing, and then of its Institute for Applied Computational Science. She recently was appointed Executive Director of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. She is a member of NASW, has served on awards committees for the National Science Board and American Institute of Writing Physics and is an honorary member of Sigma Xi.