CHAPTER MEETING


 WRITING a CONSULTING PROPOSAL

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Michael's at Shoreline

2960 North Shoreline Boulevard

Mountain View, CA


Our chapter Member Joan Brodovsky will show the independent contractors among us how to structure a proposal for consulting work "...a proposal that doesn't bit back."




  • 11:00 - 11:30 AM Networking

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 Buffet Lunch

  • 12:30 - 1:30 Joan's presentation

  • 1:30 - 2:00 PM - Q and A session


$20 members, $25 non-members



Register online here.
If you would like to pay by check, please send an email to our Events coordinator.


PAST CHAPTER EVENTS AND MEETINGS

March 20, 2010: Eileen Gambrill, PhD, UC Berkeley, met with us at the Pyramid Alehouse in Berkeley, from 10:30-1:30. Eileen Gambril has been studying Social Anxiety Disorder, and we had a lively discussion following the presentation.

December 5, 2009: A seminar with Dr. Daryl Faulds, CEO of Gemmus Pharma, on a broad spectrum therapeutic for moderate to severe influenza infection that's under development at Gemmus.

September 20, 2009: Maggie Norris, our own Word Witch, treated us to a two-part presentation about the famous (or possibly, infamous, Normal-dot-dot. The first hour covered the nature of Word's Normal template, and the in second, we built a custom template (Maggie drove).

June 6, 2009: A wonderful presentation by Natalie Zensius and Amy Keller of the Center for Health Design (Concord, CA) about the application of evidence-based design to healthcare facilities. You can read a synopsis of their talk here.

April 26-29, 2009: Pacific Coast Conference at Asilomar, hosted by the Pacific-Southwest chapter. It was wonderful! Plan to join us next year, April 18-21, 2010.We'll be posting the PCC Archives page soon, for a taste of what went down at the 2008 and 2009 PCC.



BAY AREA EVENTS CALENDAR

The Bay Area offers a plethora of events of interest to people in biotech, pharma, medical device, and related industries. For a calendar of upcoming professional and educational events in biospace, visit the BioDevice Group's calendar of events.

OTHER EVENTS

Please note: AMWA Northern California chapter has no official relationship to "Other Events" listed in this section. Please contact the organizations linked in the entries for more information.

San Francisco Chapter STC Monthly Meeting

The STC San Francisco chapter usually has a monthly meeting during the third week of the month. First-timers can attend free with a coupon. Info for first-timers (PDF).

You can learn more at the SF STC site. Check out their Events list, too. Visit STC's national site for more information about the organization and its chapters.

National Association of Science Writers

NASW has a California affiliate, Northern California Science Writers Association, which offers workshops, quarterly dinners, and field trips.