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AIP Again Attracts Top Talent:

Jim Allen joins AIP as new Director of News and Media Services

College Park, MD, April 11, 2011 — The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is pleased to announce that Jim Allen has joined AIP's staff on April 11 as the director of the News and Media Services Division (NMS).

Allen will oversee the day-to-day operations, business development, and strategic vision for the division, which includes AIP's Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS) television program, Inside Science News Service (ISNS) news wire service, and AIP's media services for Member Societies and the promotion of AIP journal content.

Allen has been a respected fixture of the Washington, D.C. television, print, and radio news community for more than 20 years, providing communications counsel and on-air reporting for the local affiliate of NBC television, CBS radio, Radio One, as well as serving as director of media relations and special reports editor for The Hill newspaper. Most recently, Allen served as vice president for the company Talmax, where he conducted market research, marketing, and business development; after serving for three years as director of media relations for Clean Skies News/Energy Now Television. Early in his career, Allen was a scientific technical editor for Reed International Publishing.

About American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical sciences societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP also delivers valuable resources and expertise in education and student services, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and other sciences. Offering publishing solutions for scientific societies and organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals, two magazines—including its flagship publication, Physics Today—and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Scitation, AIP's online publishing platform, hosts 1.6 million articles from 190 scholarly journals, proceedings, and eBooks of learned society publishers. AIP also provides the international physical science community with UniPHY, the first literature-based social and professional networking site; it features pre-populated profiles of more than 300,000 scientists and enables collaboration among researchers worldwide.

For more information, please contact:
Charles E. Blue
Manager, Media Services
American Institute of Physics
Email:
Phone: +1 301-209-3091