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| Volume 51, Number 2, Spring 2002 |
OUR GANGby Rick Borchelt
Water view. Meantime, Lia Unrau, formerly senior
staff editor covering science at Rice
University, leaves (normally) dry Houston for the great wet Northwest.
She's following her spouse to Seattle, where she'll be doing freelance
writing and looking for that perfect job-"or deciding to hang
up my computer and become a professional hiker and skier." Reach
her while she's mulling her options at Rainforests. Diane Jukofsky, who directs the Rainforest Alliance's Neotropics communications department, has been named an honorary member of the Sigma Xi Science Research Society. She's the first honorary Sigma Xi member to be chosen from the non-profit conservation field; since 1983, Sigma Xi has elected 26 honorary members, including Al Gore and Madeleine Nash. She's also the author of the recent Encyclopedia of Rainforests. Congratulations notes to infotrop@racsa.co.cr. Banks of the Potomac. Freelance/NASA contractor Dave Dooling will spend six months at NASA headquarters, leaving hot and muggy Alabama for hot and muggy D.C. this spring. That's almost as long as a stint on Mir. He'll still be reachable at deesqrd@hiwaay.net while on assignment. More Potomac fever. Dave's not the only one D.C.-bound. Freelance Laura Newman is the recipient of a National Press Club mini-fellowship on cancer reporting. She'll be back to her old haunts in New York by the time this goes to press, but e-mail to find out how it went at lnewman3@nyc.rr.com. Waterfowl. There's a new sheriff in town for our D.C.colleagues. Craig Hicks is the newly elected president of the D.C. Science Writers Association, fondly monikered as "duck-swans." Reach him at chicks@nas.edu. Bethesda bound. Cheryl Platzman Weinstock has been selected for a Knight Center Medical Science Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Overseas. Two items of note: C. Blake Powers,
also with that Huntsville, Ala., NASA connection, will be giving an
invited paper at the 23rd International Symposium on Space Technology
and Science in Shimane, Japan, this May. Regaining her sea legs. It's back to the freelance life for Paula Hartman Cohen, most recently science and agriculture PIO for the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A former frequent contributor to Newsday, Cohen now writes regularly for an emergency medical publication and hopes to expand into other health, environment and ag markets. Tips to ease the transition can go to phcohen@reporters.net. Riding the wave of success. Genetic Basics, by Tabitha (Tammy) Powledge, a general-audience pub about fundamental genetic concepts, just picked up the Distinguished Technical Communication Award of the D.C. chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. The booklet was written under contract to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It's available free (paper or PDF) on the NIGMS site at www.nigms.nih.gov. Tammy's at tam@nasw.org. # Rick Borchelt is director of communications and public affairs at The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Send hot NASW-related gossip to Rick at rborchelt@nasw.org. |
Sea
change. NASAGoddard's ace writer Mike Carlowicz is
exchanging views of the Chesapeake Bay for views of Cape Cod. Mike
is a new science writer/editor for the