John Keefe is moving to the Discovery Channel from AAAS.
Ann Collins will retire June 30 after more than 28 years at the New York Academy of Sciences, the last 20 as director of communications. She writes that she's not worried about how she'll spend her time--she plans to pursue a long-held dream to study French, and along with her husband, Tom Walsh, she'll be traveling as they follow their figure-skating avocation more actively. They've already booked tickets for the national championships in Nashville next February and for the world's in Lausanne next March. Also, the Academy has asked her to serve as a consultant five days a month, so she feels she has "the best of both worlds."
Carl Posey has retired from Time-Life Books to take up the Writer's Life at home in Alexandria, VA.
Matthew M. Crenson, a science writer at The Dallas Morning News, has been named science editor of The Associated Press. Crenson has a master's degree from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and underwent undergraduate training in geology and biology at Brown University and Glasgow University in Scotland. He joined the Morning News two years ago.
Crenson succeeds Paul Raeburn, who resigned to become science and technology editor at Business Week. Daniel Q. Haney, a science writer in the AP's Boston bureau, has been named AP medical editor. In this newly created position, Haney will continue to write medical stories and will help set the agenda for national medical and health coverage. Haney, a 16-year veteran of the AP, will remain based in Boston.
Kenneth K. Goldstein is retiring after 25 years teaching science journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. According to the J School's Alumni Journal, he is picking up playwriting, a craft he abandoned previously for financial reasons. Holding a master's degree in English criticism and playwriting from the University of Michigan, he won an award for his work and saw one of his plays produced off-Broadway.
A'ndrea Messer has taken over for Scott Turner as coordinator of the Penn State chapter of the National Association of Science Writers. Scott has left his job as science and research information officer at Penn State and started a new position as associate director of the Brown University News Bureau.
Former freelancer Ted Berland is now publications editor for the American Massage Therapy Association in Evanston, Ill. You can reach him there at 847-864-0123, ext. 44. Address: 820 Davis St., Suite 100, Evanston, IL 60201-4444.
JAMA's Andrew Skolnik is on leave from his regular job to spend March through August in China. He's teaching science writing at Shanghai International Studies University.
Rebecca Volker wrote a story for JAMA on how dogs are being used to help people with their rehabilitation from injury; now her dog Niki has become a certified trained therapy dog working through the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Bernard Dixon has been invited to attend ceremonies at the University of Edinburgh July 10 to receive an honorary Dsc. He writes that he is pleased, not only as a "Scotophile," but also that writing about science is being recognized by those who actually do it.
Alan McGowan, formerly head of the Scientist's Institute for Public Information (SIPI), is now directing the Public Understanding of Science programs within the Directorate of Education and Human Resources Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. You can reach him there at 202-326-6625.
As of April 1, and coincident with his (gasp!) 65th birthday, Arthur Fisher has officially retired from his post as executive editor of Popular Science. He will, however, continue to contribute to the magazine--writing, editing, and consulting--with the title science editor emeritus. Recently returned from China, he is currently immersed in pulling together the magazine's August single-topic issue on Chinese science and technology, as he did for a 1994 opus on Russia's ditto. Fisher notes that he will be available for "interesting" freelance assignments on subjects scientific, architectural, muscial, historical, tragi-comical....
UC Davis News Service, headed by Karen Watson and including Carol Morton, has received a gold medal in recognition of outstanding research writing, awarded by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). UC Davis received one of only two such medals handed out in the national competition this year.
Jennifer Donovan has moved from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she was news manager, to the University of Maryland.
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