Alexandra Witze has left her post as associate editor of Earth Magazine to join the staff of the Dallas Morning News.
Harvard Health Letter Managing Editor Leah R. Garnett won a first-place award for magazine writing in the national media competition of the National Mental Health Association. Boston Globe reporter Alison Bass took a first prize in the same competition for newspapers over 100,00 circulation.
Patricia Thomas, editor of the Harvard Health Letter, received an award of excellence in medical communication from the New England chapter of the American Medical Writers Association.
John Pope, medical/health reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, has profiled Betty Ford for a Garland Publishing biographical encyclopedia of presidential spouses.
Jane Stevens has joined a small group of videojournalists who will be putting together hour-long Science Times television programs for Video News International, described in an article by Peggy Girshman in the Spring issue of ScienceWriters.
Joann Gutin will be freelancing in New York City instead of Berkeley, CA. According to the newsletter of the Northern California Science Writers Association, her husband got an offer from Sloan Kettering he couldn't refuse.
Andrew Skolnick was a winner of a 1995 Harry Chapin Media Award, presented as part of the program of the World Hunger Year to honor "excellence in impacting hunger and poverty" for an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled "Along US Southern Border, Pollution, Poverty, Ignorance and Greed Threaten Nation's Health." [It is Skolnick, with the "c" that was missing from his name in the Spring SW. He says he is considering changing his name, since it came out "Slotnick" in a World Hunger Year publication.]
Attilio Bisio's Encyclopedia of Energy Technology and the Environment, published by John Wiley, was named "Outstanding Chemistry Title of 1995" by the Professional/Scholarly Division of the Association of American Publishers.
Scott Turner has joined the Brown University News Bureau as associate director for science and medicine. He had been science and research information officer at the Pennsylvania State University Department of Public Information.
Richard Lipkin is leaving Science News to move to New York City, the home of his physician-bride, to become a full-time freelance.
Carla Carlson, most recently director of communications of the Board on Agriculture of the National Research Council, is now Program Director of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Rebecca Kolberg, a Baltimore freelance lately associated with The Catalyst, published by the National Institutes of Health, is moving to Time-Life Medical.
Tom Yulsman, editor of Earth magazine since 1992, has been appointed deputy director of the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism and associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Boulder.
Jennifer Boeth Donovan, whose move to the University of Maryland was noted in the last issue, can be given a more specific address. She is science information officer on the staff of the University of Maryland at Baltimore m,dia relations office. Tel: 410-706-7946; fax: 410-706-6330; e-mail: jenniferd@OIA-2.ab.umd.edu.
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