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| Volume 51, Number 3, Summer 2002 |
OUR GANGby Rick Borchelt Spring migration. Although the bedrock under Bethesda must have shifted when it happened, longtime (30 years) NIH public affairs veteran Anne Thomas departed the Institutes this spring to head north to New York, where she is the new VP for public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The move puts her working again for her former NIH boss, Harold Varmus. Kudos to Anne at thomasa1@mskcc.org. Empty nest. Also headed to New York from the D.C. area, now that she and her husband have a newly free nest, is freelance author Robin Henig. She'll be freelancing from a corner of her living room in faculty housing for Columbia, where hubby landeda job he couldn't refuse. Not your typical living room office-four windows overlook Morningside Park. NASW e-mail goes with you everywhere; welcome Robin to New York at robinhenig@nasw.org. Bicoastal bird. What is it with New York? Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times follows his partner cross-country to the Big Apple, too-Jennifer will join the faculty of NYU Law School and Lee will be covering science out of the paper's New York bureau. But they'll be hanging on to their Santa Monica house and expect to spend time on both coasts. Incubating a book. Science's longtime Paris correspondent, Michael Balter, has gone half time at the magazine to write an archaeology book about the Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk, in Turkey, for Simon and Schuster's Free Press imprint. The book idea started as a Science assignment back in 1998. Another European Migrant. Freelance writer David Bradley sends thanks for the plug in the last "Our Gang," which set him up contributing regularly again to Science (this time with the U.K. office). "It's strange because even though their U.K. office is only just down the road it took a mention in a U.S. publication (ScienceWriters) for my neighbours [sic] to get in touch again," Dave writes. And another testament to the international flavor of NASW; Dave's e-mail is davidbradley@nasw.org. Rara avis. Laura Phillips Mackowski graduated from Arizona State University this spring with a doctorate in history and certification in scholarly publishing. The former freelancer, once based in St. Louis and the Baltimore-Washington area, is looking for a publisher for her current book, a history of space medicine. She's also starting on a new book, a history of field research and mountaineering, and accepting contract assignments in editing and writing. Book her at maura_mackowski@hotmail.com. Busy Bird. Kelli Miller was a recent recipient of a National Press Foundation mini-fellowship on cancer reporting, but to do it she had to carve time from pumping out a dozen or more med/science/tech broadcast pieces a month (for Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Science, where she is executive producer) and an active freelance life. Let her know how you liked her cover story on DNA identification for The Scientist at kellimiller@mindspring.com. Singing about physics. The American Institute of Physics awarded its 2002 Andrew Gemant Award for communicating physics to Michael Riordan, former public affairs staff member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The award notes that Michael's work "has enhanced the public's appreciation of physics as a source of beneficial applications and as an integral part of our intellectual life." He can still be reached at Stanford at michael@slac.stanford.edu. Other prize birds. Prizes also went to Mike Lemonick of Time Magazine (and his colleague Jeffrey Kluger) from the Overseas Press Club, which bestowed the Whitman Bassow Award for international environmental writing for 2001. Mlemonick@aol.com for congratulations. Also send compliments to Ira Flatow, who garnered an American Crystallographic Association award for "exceptional writing or commentary that brings science to the attention of a wider audience." Ira is rapidly becoming a conglomerate at iflatow@iraflatow.com. Down in Ohio, our Ohio University in Athen's contingent, Kelli Whitlock and Andrea Gibson, took a bronze medal in the annual CASE Circle of Excellence competition for periodical staff writing. Kudos to whitlock@ohio.edu. Baltic birding. As ScienceWriters went to press, freelance writer Valerie Brown was leaving for an environmental symposium on (literally and figuratively) the Adriatic. The program, sponsored by Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church Bartholomew I, the symposium participants sail from Corfu to Venice, studying such topics as the long-term consequences of the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. When she's back, ask her about the trip at vjane@teleport.com. Birds of a feather. When not staying out of harm's way in Israel, member Joan Weinberg is matchmaking Israeli biotech/medical device and IT start-ups with U.S. and Euro PR firms. Former English-language publications editor at the Weizmann Institute, Joan also generates marketing collateral materials (annual reports, etc.) for some of Israel's high-profile corporations and associations. She's in Tel Aviv at jow@zahav.net.il. Business week bird. Business Week science writer Paul Raeburn just signed a contract with Broadway Books for a book on mental illness in children. He'll be taking a leave from Business Week for about six months beginning in October. The book is partly a memoir of his experiences with his own kids, and partly a look at the myriad ways in which our social institutions fail mentally ill children. Paul says he welcomes stories from any members-or their friends-who have had similar experiences with children and would like to talk about them. Paul's e-mail is praeburn @nasw.org. Bouncing bird. Nancy McGuire's previous home, Chemical Innovation (monthly publication, American Chemical Society), closed up shop with the December 2001 issue, but she was fortunate to land another associate-editor position with Today's Chemist at Work and Modern Drug Discovery (two monthly publications at the American Chemical Society that share an editorial staff). They're doing a lot of in-house writing these days, and she's also doing some editing and writing for Luminaries of the Chemical Sciences, a special magazine supplement. She's nmcguire@wordchemist.com. Giddyap, birdies-westward ho! When Dave Dooling finishes his detail at NASA headquarters in Washington, he won't be headed back to Huntsville, Ala., but to a new job as outreach education officer at the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak in Sunspot, N.M. He promises to send coordinates to the D2B2 (Dooling & Dooling Bed & Breakfast) when the Doolings take up residence there. 'Til then, look for him online at deesqrd@hiwaay.net. Bye bye birdie. After close to a decade at the helm of the AAAS news office, Nan Broadbent was last seen backpacking through Spain and expects to return to the States this summer. She'll be staying in D.C. while considering her next career move. #
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