Research Communications Staff
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Earle Holland is assistant vice president for research communications in the Office of University Relations. As senior science communications professional at OSU, he oversees the promotion of research activities, including crisis communications involving research risks (lab animal use, human subjects experimentation, radiation safety, biosafety, infection control, computer security and scientific misconduct). He edits a national news service, has edited the former tabloid magapaper (Quest) and a major four-color magazine reporting on cancer research, treatment and education (Frontiers), and manages the university's research news website. His programs have won more than 40 awards from CASE, including four Grand Gold awards--one for external tabloids (selected by the editorial staff of the Chronicle of Higher Education) and three for excellence in newswriting (selected by the editorial staff of Newsweek) -- as well as numerous awards from the Associated Press, the Public Relations Society of America, and the International Association of Business Communicators. He served three terms on the board of the National Association of Science Writers, is a member and former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also serves on the national advisory committee for EurekAlert!, a research news website run by AAAS, is on the public affairs advisory committee for the National Science Foundation, and is a member of the board of directors of Americans for Medical Progress. For seven years, he wrote GeoWeek, a weekly column on science and geography distributed internationally to 60 newspapers by the New York Times Syndicate. For 16 years, he wrote a weekly science and medical column for the Columbus (OH) Dispatch and for 21 years has taught a graduate-level science writing course for OSU's School of Journalism. He has written chapters for NASW's A Field Guide for Science Writers and the Handbook on Communicating and Disseminating Behavioral Science. He served on the university's Y2K Task Force and the Ad Hoc Committee on Xenotransplantation. In 1996, he became the first university science writer ever invited by the National Science Foundation to spend a month in Antarctica reporting on research as part of NSF's national news media program. He has been a peer reviewer of grant proposals for both the NSF and the National Institutes of Health. He is a former reporter for the Birmingham (AL) News and a graduate of Auburn University. He was named national co-chair of a conference sponsored by a NASA/DOE-sponsored project, "Research/Roadmap for the Communication of Science and Technology in the 21st Century", to demonstrate the best practices in science communications and held in Spring, 2002.
Jeff Grabmeier, director of research communications, has been with the office since 1985. Jeff helps lead the office’s national news service, which highlights the faculty's research accomplishments to print and broadcast reporters across the country. For the service, he assigns stories, works with writers, and edits copy. He is the principal writer covering research in the social sciences, business and humanities. Jeff also assists reporters who are looking for sources or seeking more information on Ohio State research. In addition, Jeff edits the “Discoveries” page for onCampus, the faculty and staff newspaper. He is co-chair of the Education Committee of the National Association of Science Writers, and has been a columnist for the association’s newsletter ScienceWriters. He has done freelance writing for several consumer and college magazines and has written chapters for the books Soul of the Sky and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Family and Personal Relationships. He’s a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Before coming to Ohio State, Jeff was a reporter for the Gallipolis Daily Tribune and the Columbus Citizen-Journal. He has a B.S. in journalism from Ohio University and an M.A. in political science from Ohio State. Grabmeier.1@osu.edu -- (614) 292-8457 Pam Frost Gorder is
an assistant director of research communications. Principally,
she writes news releases and feature stories about research in
the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (physics, astronomy,
chemistry, geology, math, and statistics) and the College of
Engineering. She takes a broad interest in technology research,
and is the primary communications contact for university technologies
that have been patented or are available for license. She also
occasionally writes about research in the social sciences, biological
sciences, or business when the research involves technology.
Finally, she helps develop Research Communications’ ever-evolving
strategy for managing electronic information, so she is always
looking for new ways to use the Internet for tracking publications
by Ohio State Faculty, and for tracking the media hits that result
from our news releases. You’ll see her byline in onCampus,
the faculty and staff newspaper, and other publications around
campus that reprint her stories. Pam is an active freelance writer:
her work has appeared in The Sciences, the magazine
for the New York Academy of Sciences; Science World,
a Scholastic, Inc., classroom magazine for junior-high students,
and 21st C: The World of Research at Columbia University.
Most recently, she has written features for various scientific
societies -- including the American Chemical Society, American
Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers -- and for the magazine New Scientist. Before
joining the Ohio State staff in 1996, she edited Advanced
Manufacturing Technology, a news service and monthly magazine
about licensable technologies in manufacturing engineering. She
graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in physics with emphasis
on astronomy in 1993, and in 1995, received an M.A. from New
York University's Science and Environmental Reporting Program,
the first program of its kind in the country. She’s a member
of the National Association of Science Writers and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
Emily Caldwell is an assistant director of research communications. Her primary responsibility is writing news stories about faculty research in the health sciences colleges and in biology, food science, nutrition and natural resources. She also assists with crisis communications planning. She joined this office in November 2007, but has been with Ohio State since 1997 and in higher education communications since 1994, beginning with a job as a writer and assistant editor at Ohio University in Athens. At Ohio State, Emily has served as a news services coordinator and as editor of onCampus, the faculty/staff newspaper. Most recently, she spent 5 ½ years as assistant director of media relations in the university’s medical center. There, she began writing stories about faculty research in cardiovascular medicine, surgery, wound healing and sports medicine, and a science writer was born. Before working in higher education, Emily was a reporter covering small coastal towns, including Kennebunkport, for the Biddeford Journal Tribune in southern Maine; her time there coincided with the first George Bush presidency, and she covered his vacations as part of her beat. Emily earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Ohio University, and taught news writing and editing courses there as part of her graduate program. She’s a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Caldwell.151@osu.edu -- (614) 292-8310 |