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OUR GANGby Jeff Grabmeier Boldly going…to Texas. Carol Ezzell Webb—you may remember her byline as simply Carol Ezzell—left Scientific American in October and moved to Austin, TX. She is now freelancing from Austin and continues her association with Scientific American as a contributing editor. You can find Carol at carol@ezzellwebb.com. A logical choice for honors. The first book by Dana Mackenzie, a freelance writer who lives in Santa Cruz, was recently named an “Editors’ Choice for 2003” by Booklist magazine. Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, selected 63 books in eight categories for its annual list. Only four books made the cut in the “Science” category. Dana was thrilled to find his work, The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be (John Wiley & Sons), placed side-by-side with books by Peter Gallison, David Quammen, and Nobel laureate James Watson. Dana is not yet working on a second book, but he says he’s thinking real hard about it. Congratulate Dana at scribe@danamackenzie.com. Career, warp speed ahead! Kandice Carter is moving on. Formerly a writer for AAAS’s Science Update, Kandice is now the newest science writer at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA. Her new coordinates are kcarter@jlab.org. I’m a science writer, not a politician! With all the smart and politically aware members in NASW, it should be no surprise that we have another colleague who has been elected to office. Last issue we noted that Walter Neary was elected to city council in Lakewood, Washington. Now, we hear that freelancer Steve Miller has been elected Township Supervisor (sort of like a town council member) in Ferguson Township, PA. Steve’s very popular in the township: he won by a vote of 1038-4! (We won’t mention the fact that he had no opponent.) However, he still has to write for a living—his supervisor position pays only about $3,000 a year. Steve is at stevemiller@nasw.org. A new mission. While he remains a freelancer, Maury Breecher recently became the executive editor of the UCLA Diabetes Perspectives newsletter. His first issue will be in June. Maury will continue freelancing for non-competing media and continue his ghostwriting and book collaboration business. Maury’s e-mail is bookwriter@sbcglobal.net. Live long and prosper. David Harris, formerly head of media relations of the American Physical Society, has taken up a new position as managing editor of a yet-to-be-named magazine to be published on behalf of the international particle physics community. The magazine will be published jointly by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Fermilab, with a focus on science policy and research connected with particle physics. Send congratulations to David at dharrisuq@hotmail.com. Captain’s Log, Stardate Dec. 2002. Freelancer Richard Bernstein was fortunate enough to view a total solar eclipse on Dec. 2, 2002, while under a boabab tree in a desert in Zimbabwe. A stunning color photograph he took of the eclipse through a Questar telescope was used on the cover of the December 2003 issue of the Mensa Bulletin. I’m still waiting for my invitation to join Mensa, but it never seems to come. Richard is at diabetes@optonline.net. # Jeff Grabmeier is assistant director of research communications at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Send news about your life to Jeff at Grabmeier@nasw.org. |
