Jeff Grabmeier, assistant director of research communications, has been with the office since 1985. Jeff's primary responsibility is to help prepare the office's national news service, which highlights the faculty's research accomplishments to print and broadcast reporters across the country. For the services, he assigns stories, works with writers, and edits copy. He is the principal writer covering research in the social sciences, business and human ecology. Jeff also assists reporters who are looking for sources or seeking more information on Ohio State research. In addition, Jeff edits the Research page for onCampus, the faculty and staff newspaper, and writes for Quest, the university's tabloid magapaper. Jeff co-chaired the 1997 national CASE Conference titled Effective Techniques for Communicating University Research. He has done freelance writing for American Health and Columbus Monthly magazines and has written chapters for the books Soul of the Sky and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Family and Personal Relationships. Before coming to Ohio State, Jeff was a reporter for the Gallipolis Daily Tribune and the Columbus Citizen-Journal. He has a B.S. in journalism from Ohio University and an M.A. in political science from Ohio State.

Pam Frost is an associate editor of research communications. Principally, she writes stories about university research underway in the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- including physics, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, and statistics -- and in the College of Engineering. In addition, she writes articles for Frontiers, a magazine reporting on cancer research, treatment and education, and Quest, a tabloid magapaper that covers all facets of university research. She occasionally writes for other news services around University Communications, as well as onCampus, the faculty-staff newspaper. Her work has appeared in The Sciences, the magazine for the National Academy of Sciences; Science World, a Scholastic, Inc., classroom magazine for junior-high students, and 21stC: The World of Research at Columbia University. She now writes regularly for Chemistry, a publication for members of the American Chemical Society. Before joining the Ohio State University staff in 1996, she edited Advanced Manufacturing Technology, a weekly newsletter and monthly magazine of research in manufacturing engineering, now published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. She graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in physics with emphasis on astronomy in 1993. In 1995, she received an M.A. from New York University's Science and Environmental Reporting Program, the first program of its kind in the country.

Holly Wagner is an associate editor in research communications. When not in her cubicle writing up a new research story or working on feature length epics for Frontiers or Quest, she's either scouring the libraries for the latest publications by Ohio State scientists or interviewing researchers. Since February 1997, Holly has covered myriad aspects of life sciences at the university, from carbon dioxide emissions in the Arctic atmosphere to why it's a bad idea to feed M&M's to race horses. Before turning to science writing, Holly worked at two daily newspapers in Ohio -- The Times-Bulletin in Van Wert and The Daily Record in Wooster -- covering community government and the police beat to agriculture and business. Also during that time, she helped the Department of Aerospace Engineering research its history by interviewing faculty, contacting alumni and compiling historic documents. As an undergraduate, she wrote for News in Engineering, the periodical for the College of Engineering at Ohio State. She graduated from Ohio State in 1996 with a degree in natural resources and is contemplating the idea of pursuing a master's degree. Holly recently earned her open-water scuba diving certification and looks forward to spending her free time submerged.