Washington Academy of Sciences

In 1898, the Washington area's eight scientific societies banded together to form the Washington Academy of Sciences, an umbrella organization designed to facilitate the cooperation among the scientific disciplines. Now, over 100 years later, with nearly 60 affiliated organizations, the Academy continues to effectively pursue that goal.

Affiliating with the Academy brings many benefits:

• Meetings
  • The ability to participate in the biennial Capital Science Conference (held every two years in the National Science Foundation Conference facility)
  • No-cost meeting rooms in the AAAS building for our Affiliates
  • Publicity for our Affiliates' functions includes posting on our website calendar (viewed by about 5000 visitors monthly) and email circulation to all of our Affiliates (reaching between 10,000 and 20,000 scientists)

• Affiliates may place their own website on the Academy server at no cost

• The Journal
  • Members of our Affiliated Societies receive preference to publish in the Journal (all papers are juried).
  • Members of the Academy may request that any Journal article be posted on the Academy website at no cost (all of the Tables of Contents since 1898 are posted). The delegates from the Affiliates may make the request on behalf of any member of the Affiliate. This service is not available to non-members.

If your Society is interested in affiliating with the Academy, please contact our Vice President for Affiliated Societies at eewilliams@salisbury.edu for more information.