As a grad student at the University of Edinburgh, Elie Dolgin wrote and recorded science radio shows and podcasts in between experiments with C. elegans. Within only weeks of defending his thesis, Dolgin became an editorial intern at The Scientist. "I liked The Scientist because, even though I was no longer a practicing scientist, for the first time I felt I was part of a science community." After a five-month hiatus from the magazine, when he worked on the science desk at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and freelanced for Nature and other publications, Dolgin returns to The Scientist this month as an associate editor, where he'll be leading the magazine's effort to "ramp up multimedia." Look for more video, slide shows and Dolgin's "true love"—audio—to be incorporated into daily stories online.
In this month's Opinion, Odile Oukem-Boyer, senior scientist and deputy administrator at the Chantal Biya International Center for Research ...
