Alumni Updates

After graduation Nicole Gordon (’02) got a one-year position as a writer/editor at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Her position has since turned into a longer-term gig so she’s still there, writing about atmospheric science for the public, other UCAR/NCAR employees and the media.

Chelsey Baker-Hauck (’00) is director of periodicals at the University of Denver and managing editor of the award-winning University of Denver Magazine. In 2002, Baker-Hauck received a silver Mercury Award for science writing from the International Academy of Communication Arts & Sciences, as well as bronze awards for profile and science writing from CASE Region VI. In January of this year, she received a gold award from CASE Region VI for science/technology/research writing. A highlight of the past year was interviewing U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton (despite the fact that the interview was whittled from 45 minutes to 20 minutes because Norton was caught in traffic). The resulting profile ran in the winter 2003-04 issue of the University of Denver Magazine. Read it at www.du.edu/dumagazine. Baker-Hauck is renovating a Victorian home in northwest Denver, where she lives with her husband, dog, six ferrets and a very grumpy iguana.

Janine (Wingard) Frank (’00) is working as a writer for Gaiam (www.gaiam.com), writing copy for their Web site and email campaigns. She writes: “I love the company I work for and feel as though I have the ideal job. I also had a baby last spring and now I work from home—it just doesn’t get much better than that!!”