The articles in "Scientists" were written by scientists themselves for the general community. The writers of this magazine are the people who best know the material that they are writing about, having devoted months or years to their research. They are inviting you into their laboratories, whether these are at the bottom of the Science Center, the particle accelerators across the country or the observatories that witness the fluid jets of stars in interstellar space.
In the Spring semester of
1997, students in the course "Writing About Science" (Joy McConnell,
Instructor) created four "special issues" of Synthesis as independent
group projects: