Jennifer Motl is moving to the Daily Progress in Fredericksburg VA. from the New York University Medical Center public relations office.
Stephen Hart has joined the staff of ABCNEWS.com as health/medicine writer, telecommuting to the Bellevue, WA office from his home in Port Angeles, WA.
Steve Benowitz has moved from The Scientist to Thomas Jefferson University as a science writer, covering research in both basic and clinical sciences and at the university’s cancer center. He adds that he is also writing and editing several university publications for both internal and external audiences, doing some media relations, and putting out the occasional fire. He’s also busy with some freelance projects, currently a primer on cancer for sixth graders. New address: Thomas Jefferson University, 1015 Chestnut Street, suite 810, Philadelphia, PA 19107; tel: 215-955-5291; e-mail: steven.benowitz@mail.tju.edu.
Boyce Rensberger, Robin Marantz Henig, Robert Kanigel, and James Shreeve were speakers at an all-day seminar on science writing attended by 120 people at the Smithsonian Institution November 8. Mary Knudson was organizer/moderator.
David Burns, who—when he isn’t editing Science and the Future—serves as leader, trombonist, and vocalist with the Hot Mustard Jazz Band, has issued a new record, Nothing Loved Is Ever Lost. His styling will be affectionately remembered by those who attended the local party the last time NASW met in the nation’s capital. The recording is available from Midnight Music (888-843-0933) at $12 for the CD, and $10 for cassettes. Shipping is $3.00.
Bill Burton is no longer at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He’s now across town as Science and Engineering Editor, Northwestern University. Tel: 847-491-3115; fax: 847-491-2376; e-mail: b-burton@nwu.edu; website: http://www.nwu.edu/univ-relations/media/
Marion E. Glick has resigned as director of communications for The Rockefeller University to become vice president, corporate communications at Noonan/Russo, a public relations firm in New York City. Joseph Bonner was named acting director at Rockefeller.
Donald J. Frederick has received a media fellowship from The Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He will study space science and engineering projects at Vanderbilt University.
Stanley N. Wellborn has left the Brookings Institution, where he was director of public affairs, to become director of external affairs of the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland. His assignment: to enhance the foundation’s “goals of improving the lives and prospects of vulnerable and at-risk children, their families and their neighborhoods.” Tel: 410-223-2978; e-mail:STANW@AECF.ORG
Ginger Pinholster been named Coordinator of National Media Relations for the University of Delaware.
Rebecca Hughes, after three years as senior editor of Microsoft’s OnParenting, has been named managing editor of Personal Health Connections in Seattle, WA. She can be reached there at 83 S. King St., Suite 414, Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 682-5383 x 222 phone; 682-5498 fax) and a new email address (rebeccah@phcnet.com)
Vic Banks has released a one-hour documentary, The Pantanal: Brazil's Forgotten Wilderness, based on his critically acclaimed Sierra Club book of the same name. Besides giant blue macaws, fruit-eating fish and huge anacondas, the film contains rare images of the lost field drawings of the Russian Imperial South American Expedition of 1821 and footage from a 1913 Roosevelt Expedition through the same territory. The project was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.