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David Baron will be taking a year off from his job as science/environment reporter for NPR to spend the 1998-99 academic year as a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. While in Boulder, he will pursue a course of study focusing on environmental law and the history of the American West.
C. Blake Powers is moving back to Huntsville, Alabama, after being offered a job with CST, Inc. (Computer Systems Technology, Inc.) supporting the Space Products Development Group at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He plans to continue doing freelance work, including his science segment for radio station KNLS.
Carol Rogers is the new editor of Science Communication, an interdisciplinary social science journal published quarterly by Sage.
Jane Stevens has moved from her quaint, secluded bunkhouse in California's Sacramento Valley to cooler climes on the California coast. Her new address: P.O. Box 24, Sea Ranch, CA 95497; phone 707-785-1739; email remains the same.
Karen Watson has left the news service at the University of California, Davis, to join Discovery Channel Online as executive science producer/editor; phone 301-771-3740; http://www.discovery.com.
Charlotte Libov contributed a section on heart disease in women to The Readers Companion To U.S. Women's History, published by Houghton Mifflin. She also recently returned from giving keynote presentations on women's health to the Women 2000 conference at Baltimore Community College in Baltimore, MD, and the Sense of a Woman Symposium at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. She also gave presentations this winter at community hospital programs in Alabama, Illinois, Oregon and Washington state.
Dan Greenberg has been appointed a Visiting Scholar in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History of Science, Medicine and Technology, where he's writing a book on post-Cold War science politics. Dan has received a grant for the project from the Sloan Foundation. The book is to be published by the University of Chicago Press, which also plans to reissue a previous book by Greenberg, The Politics of Pure Science. That book, first published in 1967, went through five printings, plus an updated paperback version, and was published in a separate edition in Great Britain. The new edition of The Politics of Pure Science will contain introductions by Sir John Maddox, former editor of Nature, and Professor Steve Shapin, a sociologist of science at the University of California, San Diego. Greenberg continues his newspaper column, which appears in The Washington Post and other papers, is also a correspondent for Lancet and holds the liberated title of editor-at-large for his old publication, Science and Government Report, which was acquired last year by John Wiley & Sons.
Laura van Dam has recently moved from Technology Review magazine to a new position at Houghton Mifflin Co. as a senior editor, where she's acquiring and editing books about science, technology and medicine/health for general readers. Her bosses have stressed that she focus on attracting top-quality, literary narrative works. She notes that she's having great fun learning about the world of book publishing and is quickly developing the same kinds of piles her new colleagues have in their offices. If you want to try her out on an idea or ask for more info, Laura writes that she'd be pleased to hear from you. Her address: Houghton Mifflin Co., 222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116; phone: 617-351-3888; fax: 617-351-1202; e-mail: laura_vandam@hmco.com.
After 21 years in southern California, free-lance science writer Bob Finn, his wife Joanne Cosmos Finn, and the cats grab the opportunity to move to the San Francisco Bay area. Reach him at 651 Magnolia Street, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019; phone 650-560-9637; fax 650-560-9638. Email addresses will not change. Write him at finn@nasw.org with personal business and cybrarian@nasw.org with business related to NASW.
Business Week Senior Science Editor Paul Raeburn is author of Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet from the National Geographic Society. It includes new, behind-the-scenes information on last year's Pathfinder mission and a panorama image to be viewed with 3-D glasses bound into the book.
Articles by David Brand, senior science editor of the Cornell News Service, were part of a team entry awarded a gold medal for research, medicine, and science writing at the annual CASE Circle of Excellence judging. Brand's work also earned a silver medal in an entry submitted by the University of Washington (where he worked prior to joining Cornell in February). Other NASW members taking home awards from the same competition include Ginger Pinholster, national media relations coordinator at the University of Delaware, and Greg Orwig, public relations manager at the University of Washington. Both captured silver medals. Congratulations!
Ruth Winter, New Jersey freelance and NASW book columnist has been awarded The Gold Triangle Award of The American Academy of Dermatology for her article on anti-aging skin creams that appeared in the March 1997 issue of Consumer's Digest.