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| Volume 46, Number 2, Fall 1998 |
Gabriel (Gabe) Paal joins AAAS as senior communications officer in charge of press coverage for Science Magazine. Previously he was public affairs assistant at Ecological Society of America. Reach him at 202-326-6421; gpaal@aaas.org.
Jennifer Donovan joins the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a science and science-education writer. Reach her at Communications Dept., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815; 301-215-8859; donovanj@hhmi.org.
Rick Borchelt spent a week in Gainesville recently as the University of Florida’s 1998 Hearst Visiting Professional. The Visiting Professional program is set up in the College of Journalism and Communications to bring well-known professional communicators to the university for master classes, faculty and student meetings, and guest lectures.
Rachel Novak on temporary assignment as New Scientist’s acting Australasian editor based in Melbourne, Australia. Reach her at rachel.novak@reedbusiness.com.au. She returns to her regular job, as Washington bureau chief and biology features editor, some time in January 1999.
Kathy Fackelmann joins the staff of USA Today after a decade at Science News.
Keith Haglund named managing editor at Science News. She was formerly with the Journal of NIH Research.
Deborah Blum participated on a science communication panel at the World Congress of Science Producers. The meeting was hosted NOVA/WBGH and attended by documentary producers from around the world.