Michael Ross:  

Michael is from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Michael's schools include St. John's College High School (Washington, D.C.), St. Jane De Chantal School (Bethesda, Md.), Saint Bartholomew School (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Saint Mary School (Rockville, Md.). Michael later attended Rice University (Materials Science and Chemistry, double major, B.A. & M.S.) I did science reports for the Rice University radio station (KTRU-AM) at three Apollo moon missions (14-16) and became interested in a career in science writing. I was a reporter at Beaumont (Tex.) newspapers and editor of the Gulf States Utilities employee magazine before moving to media relations, as a public information officer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1976-88) and IBM's Almaden Research Center (1988-2007). After retirement (2007), I've worked part-time for the American I...Expand for more