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Professional information

Name: Alan Boyle
Title/position: Treasurer
Biography: Alan Boyle, as MSNBC.com's science editor, runs a virtual curiosity shop of the physical sciences, space exploration and more. He came to MSNBC.com on its first day of operation in 1996, after stints at daily newspapers in Cincinnati, Spokane and Seattle. Since then, Boyle has won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Association of Science Writers, the Pirelli Relativity Challenge and the CMU Cybersecurity Journalism Awards program. He is a contributor to A Field Guide for Science Writers, the blogger behind MSNBC's Cosmic Log -- and an occasional talking head on the MSNBC cable channel.
Web site address: http://msnbc.com