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Source: The Society for Risk Analysis' RISK newsletter, Second Quarter 1995

Richard B. Belzer of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the U.S. President, Adam M. Finkel, formerly of Resources for the Future's Center for Risk Management, Washington, D.C., and Steven Lewis of Exxon Biomedical Sciences Inc., East Millstone, New Jersey, are among five resident fellows who examined "The Identification, Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks" this spring at the Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society on the University of Texas' Dallas campus. The summer 1995 issue of Issues in Science and Technology will include a roundtable discussion on their work. To purchase a copy for $10.95 (U.S.), contact Sonja Nelson, P.O. Box 830688, Mail Stop AD13, Richardson, Texas 75083, telephone (214) 883-6325. (The group's photograph was published in Bon Appétit, July 1995.)

Michael Dourson, formerly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, has founded the non-profit corporation Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment in Cincinnati, telephone (513) 542-7475, fax (513) 542-7487, e-mail mdourson@aol.com.

Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding, both formerly of the Center for Risk Management, Resources for the Future, are the editors of Worst Things First? The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities (Resources for the Future, December 1994). Golding is with Clark University's George Perkins Marsh Institute, and Finkel is director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Directorate of Health Standards Programs, Washington, D.C., telephone (202) 219-7075, fax (202) 219-7125, e-mail afinkel@dol.gov.

Jacques Ganoulis of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece has published Engineering Risk Analysis of Water Pollution (VCH, Weinheim, New York, 1994).

Ronald L. Joiner recently became the director of toxicology and risk assessment for the consulting engineering firm Golder Associates Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, telephone (404) 496-1893, fax (404) 934-9476.

Peter LaGoy of OHM Corporation, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, has published Risk Assessment: Principles and Applications for Hazardous Waste and Related Sites (Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, New Jersey, 1994).

Yvette Wieder Lowney, president of SRA's Rocky Mountain Chapter, recently joined PTI Environmental Services as a senior toxicologist in the company's Boulder, Colorado, office, telephone (303) 444-7270, fax (303) 444-7528.

Steven Milloy of Regulatory Impact Analysis Project Inc., Washington, D.C., telephone (202) 739-0186, is the primary author of Choices in Risk Assessment: The Role of Science Policy in the Environmental Risk Management Process (1994), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Drew Rak, formerly at Duke University's School of the Environment, is now a consultant specializing in risk assessment issues at Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc., San Antonio, Texas, telephone (210) 244-4200, fax (210) 244-4206, e-mail arak@vax.clarku.edu.

Harlee Strauss is co-founder, president, and executive director of a new, non-profit organization dedicated to scientific research involving links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. Silent Spring Institute Inc. is located in Newton, Massachusetts, telephone (617) 332-4288, fax (617) 332-4284, e-mail hstrauss@aol.com.

Ruth Thompson, formerly of DuPont Environmental Remediation Services, Houston, Texas, is now with the environmental consulting firm URF Consultants, Seattle, Washington, telephone (206) 623-1800, ext. 4588, fax (206) 233-9570.

Former SRA president Chris Whipple (1982-83) of the Environment and Energy Group of ICF Kaiser International, Oakland, California, was elected to membership in the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements at its annual meeting in April. Lynn R. Anspaugh of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, and Roger O. McClellan of Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, were re-elected to the council.

Former SRA president James D. Wilson (1992-93) has been appointed senior fellow in the Center for Risk Management, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., telephone (202) 328-5099, fax (202) 939-3460, e-mail wilson@rff.org. He was formerly with the Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri.

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