Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 1999

SIGMA XI SOCIETY ELECTS RODGERS AND HAYES AS HONORARY MEMBERS

Joann Rodgers, deputy director of public affairs for The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and Brian Hayes, a former editor of American Scientist, will be inducted as honorary members of Sigma Xi at the Society's 1999 Annual Meeting in November.

Rodgers is a principal spokesperson at Hopkins and deputy director of a 25-person communications and public relations program responsible for all internal and external print, radio, and television communications.

Hayes has had a distinguished career as a science writer and editor and performed an invaluable service to Sigma Xi as 1990-92 editor of American Scientist by overseeing the transition of the magazine from New Haven to the Society's new offices in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Hayes continues to serve as a consulting editor to the magazine.

Since 1983, honorary membership has been conferred upon 23 individuals for their service to science or Sigma Xi. Recent inductees include NASW members Consumer Reports science editor David Ansley, Time science correspondent J. Madeleine Nash, and BusinessWeek science editor Paul Raeburn. (Source: Sigma Xi.)