SLAC Today editor a familiar Stanford face

He’s baaack! And that’s a good thing. MICHAEL PEÑA, formerly a staff affairs writer and assistant editor of Stanford Report, joined the SLAC National Accelerator Center’s Office of Communications Aug. 22, as the new editor for SLAC Today and the recently launched SLAC News Center. Peña, who wrote the popular “Cardinal Chronicle” column that appeared on the back page of the print edition of Stanford Report, brings 14 years of experience working in newsrooms and university communications.

After the print edition of Stanford Report ended in spring 2009, Peña moved to Baltimore, where he spent a year and a half as a science writer and communications specialist for a bioethics institute at Johns Hopkins University.

The SLAC Communications team also includes BRONWYN BARNETT, who recently joined that office as deputy director. Barnett, who earned an MA in journalism from Stanford, did a stint as a science writing intern at the Stanford News Service.

Read the full announcement about Peña in the Sept. 12 issue of SLAC Today.