Sky & Telescope - May 2023 - 4

SPECTRUM by Peter Tyson
In a New Space
SKY & TELESCOPE WELCOMED 2023 on a new footing.
In December, we moved into our new offices at 1374 Massachusetts
Avenue in Cambridge, Mass. This event was more significant
than simply a relocation. Since March 2020, we S&T staffers have
largely worked out of our homes. For two years, the pandemic was
the cause, but then, in April 2022, we had to vacate our building because it had
been sold as part of a major development project in West Cambridge. For the
next eight months, our offices were in storage while we awaited our new space.
During this nearly three-year period, we coordinated with one another by
email, phone, and video calls to ensure that we continued to produce the highquality
content our readers expect and deserve. As I write this, we're enjoying
our first weeks of collaborating in person again as well as having ready access to
things like back issues and incoming mail.
We also welcomed two new personnel at the start
A new day: Sunrise over
Pacific as seen from the ISS
of this year. After 27 years at S&T, Illustration Director
Gregg Dinderman retired at the end of 2022. We
thank him for his dedication, hard work, and great
guffaw of a laugh, and we wish him the best in his
next pursuits. In January, we hired Gregg's successor
- our new Technical Illustrator, Beatriz Inglessis.
Venezuelan by birth, Beatriz has a doctorate in Japanese
wood-block printmaking and is an extremely talented scientific illustrator.
Rod Nenner also began in January. The new Director of Strategic Partnerships
and Chief Business Officer for the AAS, Rod will also handle advertising
sales, sponsorship opportunities, and other initiatives for S&T. A man bursting
with ideas and initiative, Rod spent 18 years with the NFL team now known as
the Washington Commanders as VP of Corporate Partnerships. We look forward
to working with Rod to enhance the S&T brand in myriad ways.
One such way is extending the brand overseas. In addition to our long-time
content-licensing arrangements with Australian Sky & Telescope and the Chinese
National Astronomy Magazine, we recently began sharing S&T content with the
German astronomy publication Sterne und Weltraum. On the books front, the
Beijing Science and Technology Publishing Co. has just brought out a Simplified
Chinese edition of our popular book Binocular Highlights.
Lastly, late in the fall we received results from a reader survey we conducted
last summer. We've only begun to mine the riches of this mother lode of data
from readers - data that will inform our strategic plan for the next five years
and beyond. Much obliged to all who participated.
Altogether, as 2023 progresses, we feel well-positioned
and excited for the future. Thanks for your support.
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