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‘Subatomic Writing’ Author Challenging Old Notions of Science Communication

‘Subatomic Writing’ AuthorChallenging Old Notionsof Science Communication By TED MEBUST OLNEY, MD – Sitting alone in the back corner of the Richfield Springs Public Library, science writer and researcher Jamie Zvirzdin diligently crafted her latest publication, presumably with coffee in hand. It was October of 2018, six months since Zvirzdin and her son, Max, were forced to flee from Managua, Nicaragua following an outbreak of political upheaval that had flooded the capital’s streets with police and protestors. Her husband, Andrew,…

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Ruth Aileen Roland, 95; Ph.D., Professor, Author

IN MEMORIAM Ruth Aileen Roland, 95; Ph.D., Professor, Author SCHENEVUS – Schenevus native Ruth Aileen Roland, who worked her way through college to a Ph.D., became a political science professor and published two books on world affairs, died Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. She was born Oct. 28, 1922, in Schenevus, the daughter of Mayo Roland and Alice Green Roland. Ruth was an academic and an intellectual. In 1939, she left her family home in Schenevus, the weekend she graduated from…