Karl Leif Bates, science writer at the Detroit News, received a University of Michigan Journalism Fellowship to study genetic research.
Jerry Bishop, recently retired deputy news editor of the Wall Street Journal, has succeeded Joann Rodgers as president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
Deborah Blum, long-time science writer at the Sacramento Bee and NASW current board member, will be relocating to Madison this fall to assume a faculty appointment in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Blum, who earned her master's in journalism from Wisconsin, says she hopes to further the cause of good writing as a teacher of both future journalists and, perhaps, future scientists. Blum joined the Bee in 1984. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her series "The Monkey Wars," an examination of the ethical and moral questions of primate-based research.
Tom Abate has left the San Francisco Examiner to join the business page of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Elizabeth Culotta, deputy news editor of Science magazine, was named a 1997 Science Writer in Residence by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Culotta spent a week on campus in late April working with journalism and science students as a part of a long-standing program to introduce nationally important science journalists to students at all levels.
Freelance Cheryl Pellerin, who has recently written two segments of a Discovery Channel miniseries, Invisible Places, also has a book coming out in August 1997, Trips: How Hallucinogens Work In Your Brain, published by Seven Stories Press in New York.
David Tenenbaum has been named science correspondent for ABCNews.com, a new web site from the TV network (http://abcnews.com) His first assignment was to cover the life on Mars controversy. Tenenbaum remains the feature writer at The Why Files, a bi-weekly WWW science magazine (http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu).
Beryl Lieff Benderly won an Exceptional Merit Media Award (EMMA), sponsored by the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College, for an article on women's health issues published in SELF magazine in September 1996.
Phil Gunby reports that while he will be "semi-retiring" at the end of June and moving to Tulsa, OK, he will still be reporting and writing for JAMA on military medicine and the like. Commenting on his most recent assignment to the American peace-keeping sector in Bosnia-Herzogovina, he found that a current military requirement to don more than 40 pounds of body armor is a considerable disadvantage in boarding helicopters.
Nancy Shute is bringing a 13-year stint as a freelance writer to a close. She has joined U.S. News and World Report to cover health and medicine for "News You Can Use."
Laura Tangley, recently freelancing in Washington, DC, has joined
U.S. News & World Report.
Rebecca Kolberg, previously at Time Life Medical, has joined the
staff of HealthWeek, the new half-hour weekly news magazine produced
by The Washington Post Company in association with Maryland Public Television.
Gary Schwitzer has also joined Healthweek as Senior Correspondent
and Analyst. He will continue as production director of the Foundation for
Informed Medical Decision Making in Hanover, NH.
Daniel S. Greenberg's Washington-based newsletter, Science & Government Report, has been acquired by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. According to a joint announcement, Greenberg will continue as editor, with responsibility for content and coverage. Wiley also said that its resources would be available "to enable Science & Government Report to expand its news and analytical coverage and add information services for the readership."