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| Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 1999 |
Stephen Hart has taken on a year-long, half-time contract as science writer with the American Society for Cell Biology. Anyone interested in receiving occasional press releases and annual meeting information can e-mail him at hart@nasw.org. He'll be telecommuting from home and continuing to pursue other freelance contracts and articles.
Michael Riordan has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for his contributions to writing the history of the Superconducting Super Collider. From September 1999 to May 2000 he will be in and around Washington, DC, directing a multi-institutional collaboration undertaking this project. The group plans to publish its findings in a volume entitled Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider. Also during his Guggenheim year, Riordan will be researching and writing a chapter of the book The Politics of Big Science: Washington and the World, 1989-1993. Science writers and others who have relevant insights, recollections or documents concerning the SSC are asked to contact him at: michael@slac.stanford.edu.
Jim Scott of the University of Colorado at Boulder News Services Office has received the top award (silver medal) for Excellence in Research, Medicine and Science Writing in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's 1999 competition. Scott has previously won a Grand Gold Medal for Excellence in News Writing as well as gold and bronze medals in CASE's annual research, medicine, and science writing competition.
Nancy Maurine Ross-Flanigan was organizer of "The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Internet," a CASE conference held on the University of Michigan campus in May. U-M faculty and staff from the School of Information, the Information Technology Division, the School of Music, the School of Art and Design, the College of Engineering, and other areas discussed the social, ethical, economic, legal, and technical aspects of future Internet development. Also participating were 10 journalists representing such news organizations as the Boston Globe, Toledo Blade, and PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Andrew Skolnick is one of three individuals to be honored by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) with its 1999 Media Spotlight Award for Journalism/Newspaper Series on September 27 in New York City. Skolnick is honored for reporting excellence in the series, "Death, neglect and the bottom line." AIUSA created the Media Spotlight Awards to celebrate media attention to human rights and to recognize and encourage the contributions of journalists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, actors, and other media industry leadership in the promotion of human rights.
Lori Oliwenstein has accepted a position as science writer for the Health Sciences Campus Public Relations Office at the University of Southern California. She writes for a weekly newspaper, various campus magazines, and generally hangs out in the labs scouring the campus for interesting stories. This is a three-day-a-week position, allowing her to continue to freelance on the side. Mon., Tues., and Thurs. she can be reached at USC Health Sciences Public Relations, phone 323-442-2827, fax 323-442-2832, e-mail oliwenst@usc.edu.
Wayt Gibbs, senior writer and lone West Coast correspondent for Scientific American, has just been awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and will be spending the 1999-2000 academic year studying biochemistry and microelectromechanics at MIT and Harvard.
Amy Nevala, electronic freelance in Seattle, has been named a Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting Fellow and will attend a four-day workshop on "Measuring Change in the Coastal Environment," held at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
Joel Shurkin leaves northern California and freelancing to accept the position of bureau chief and editor of the Johns Hopkins Medicine channel of Medcast, the Internet daily news, information, and education service for practicing physicians. Shurkin will be responsible for the daily preparation of Hopkins-related material on the Medcast network.
John Langone was recently honored with a proclamation from his native city, Cambridge, MA, for his book on his alma mater, the Cambridge Latin School, which observed its 350th anniversary. On a more scientific note, Langone's 24th book, "Everyday Technology Explained," was published in the spring by the National Geographic Society. His 25th, also for the Society, is in progress.