Paul Raeburn, after 15 years at Associated Press, 11 of them as science editor, has moved to Business Week, where he is senior editor for science and technology, including medicine and the environment.
Don L. Gibbons, since 1993 director of the Office of Communications for Stanford University Medical Center, has been named director of public affairs at the Harvard Medical School. His earlier experience includes serving as editor of Medical World News and SciQuest.
David Baron, after eight years as a science reporter for National Public Radio member station WBUR, is now covering the environment and AIDS for the parent NPR in Washington, DC. He'll be commuting weekends, since his home will remain in Boston.
Karen F. Schmidt is still covering biology and environmental sciences but now as a freelancer in Greenville, NC.
Beth Livermore, a New York City freelancer will be doing Antarctica, courtesy of the National Science Foundation, reporting on various research projects there. Upon her return, she will be traveling throughout the United States as an American Psychological Association science-writing fellow. Meanwhile she was named winner of the 1995 National Health Information Gold Award for consumer reportage.
Richard K. Bernstein, M.D., of Mamaroneck, NY, was recently awarded the Joslin Medal for surviving a half century with diabetes. The techniques he used to normalize his blood sugars beginning in 1969 were shunned by the medical establishment at the time, which spurred him to acquire a medical degree in order to publish his findings.
Julie Corliss, who until recently served as a public affairs specialist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is now a medical writer for HealthNews at the Massachusetts Medical Society (publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine). You can contact her at jcorliss@world.std.com.
Barbara Bronson Gray won the International Multimedia Award from Sigma Theta Tau, an international nursing scholarship and research organization, for a series of articles in Nurseweek.
C. Blake Powers has returned to full-time freelancing and is no longer working exclusively on NASA projects through Essex Corporation. He plans to pursue research into how computers, software and the Internet are changing the communications field and the way science information is disseminated within the scientific community and to the public. Currently he is working on an article for IEEE Spectrum magazine on disaster preparedness, and on an Essex project for the Microgravity Science Laboratory mission. You can contact Blake at cpowers@iquest.com; via fax at 205-772-3842; or by mail at 3003 Flag Circle, #2514, Madison, AL 35758.
Jon D. Franklin, a freelance writer in Philomath, Oregon, and twice a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on the Baltimore Sun, has been inaugurated into the Maryland/Delaware/D.C. Press Association Journalism Hall of Fame at the University of Maryland.
News items concerning career changes, professional awards and the like should be sent to Cindy Lollar in the AAAS Office of Communications, 1333 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005-7088; Ph: 202-326-7088; fx: 202-789-0455. e-mail: clollar@aaas.org
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