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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   March 10, 2003

HEINZ CENTER NAMES MALCOM TRUSTEE, CONFIRMS LOVEJOY AS PRESIDENT, APPOINTS NEW OFFICERS

Washington, D.C.:  The Heinz Center announced that Shirley M. Malcom has been elected to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Malcom heads the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Malcom is this year’s recipient of the National Public Welfare Medal, the highest award bestowed by the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Malcom has been active in science technology education and policy at all levels, from the grass roots to presidential panels. She has spearheaded such initiatives as the Black Churches Project; Proyecto Futuro; Kinetic City Mission to Earth, an online science adventure series for after-school programs; and the Bioscience Education Network, a digital library for undergraduate biology education. She has also served on the National Science Board and the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, among many other committees, panels, and boards.

G. William Miller, the chair of the Center’s Board, said: “Dr. Malcom has been eminently successful in advancing public understanding of science and technology; her commitment and enthusiasm will be invaluable as the Center explores new opportunities and new ways of bringing its work to a broader public. My fellow trustees and I welcome her to the Board, and we know that the Center will benefit from her vitality, insight, and experience. We are most grateful that she is willing to bring these strengths to The Heinz Center. We look forward to working with her.”

At its meeting of March 6, the Heinz Center’s Board of Trustees confirmed Thomas E. Lovejoy as President of the Center. Dr. Lovejoy had been interim president since May 2002. Mr. Miller said: “We are particularly pleased and gratified that Dr. Lovejoy has agreed to continue as President—his interests, accomplishments, and goals are a perfect match for the Center—and we believe that the Center, under his leadership, will both build upon its past successes and, more important, break new ground in the application of its trademark four-sector approach to the pressing environmental challenges facing the nation today.” 

At the same meeting, the Board also approved the following appointments: 

Anthony Janetos has been named Vice President, replacing Robert M. Friedman, who is leaving the Center after seven years to become Vice President for Environment and Energy Policy at the Center for the Advancement of Genomics and the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives. Dr. Janetos came to the Center in June 2002 from the World Resources Institute; he has focused on the Center’s Global Change Program, which he will continue to lead in his new position. 

Sharon Phenneger has been named Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of The Heinz Center. She joins the Center after serving as Chief Financial Officer at the Holton-Arms School and as Controller and Director of Finance and Administration at the American Farmland Trust.

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The Heinz Center, established in 1995 in memory of Senator John Heinz, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic basis for environmental policy and to developing innovative solutions to environmental problems.