Among his professional activities he has been a member of the Music Advisory Committee of the National Educational Radio Network, and the Media Advisory Panel of the Indiana Arts Commission. He has also produced and hosted many special programs including: the live broadcast of the Indiana University Philharmonic from Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York; 1982 broadcasts of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis; the nationally syndicated series Music from Indiana; a series on the voyages of Christopher Columbus; and A Moment of Science, with which he has been associated since its beginning in 1988. 

In addition to producing A Moment of Science he has edited two books which are collections of scripts from the radio series. The first one is called Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow , and the second one is How Can You Tell if a Spider Is Dead? He was graduated magna cum laude from Shorter College, Rome, Georgia, and took his masters and doctoral work at Indiana University. Away from the office he is a volunteer firefighter, an emergency medical technician, an interpretive naturalist at Brown County State Park, and plays bluegrass mandolin. 

"Working with A Moment of Science is about the most enjoyable experience of my career," says Glass. "I have always enjoyed science, and working with it at this level is great. All the neat stuff I learn is so rewarding, and I hope my excitement for all the fascinating things is reflected in the programs." 

Yael Ksander has been an announcer and producer at WFIU since August, 2000. Recording A Moment of Science with Don and engineer Mike on Thursday mornings is much more fun than it was dissecting that fetal pig in eleventh-grade Biology, she has decided. In addition to her work with A Moment of Science she hosts various parts of the WFIU broadcast schedule throughout the week, and produces several short programs for the station. She has an MFA in painting from Indiana University, an MA in art history from Columbia University, and a BA in modern comparative literature and studio art from the University of Virginia. She grew up around Washington, D.C.

In addition to being a cohost of A Moment of Science, Angela Mariani is a performer and scholar in the field of Early Music. Her experience includes many years in the worlds of rock and folk music as well. She has a Master's Degree from Indiana University's Early Music Institute.

Angela is also a founding member of the medieval ensemble Altramar. Angela hosts the nationally syndicated early music series Harmonia on a weekly basis. 

As a writer for A Moment of Science, Amy Breau combines her interests in poetry, science and education. After graduating with a BA in English from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, she taught high school English at Red Cloud School on Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota. She then moved back east to Philadelphia, earning a BS in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on midwifery and women's health.

Amy continues to make bridges between health and science writing and poetry. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Prairie Winds, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 1997. 

Danit Brown is a graduate student in creative writing at Indiana University. Despite graduating from Oberlin with a degree in math and computer science, today Danit is the only non-scientist in a family of scientists, and is grateful to A Moment of Science for giving her something to add to the dinner conversation. Danit's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Story, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, the Seattle Review, and One Story. She is currently editor of Indiana Review and has a bilingual cat named Bob. 

William Orem worked for the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland as a research assistant, and then science writer for the Office of the Director before joining A Moment of Science. He has a Ph.D. in English, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Bachelor's degree in Neuropsychology. His work, from journalism to popular science to essays to fiction and poetry, has appeared in dozens of publications, and his writing has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He has published a novel, Zombi, You my Love. When not writing one thing or another he relaxes his hands with a paintbrush.

After completing a pharmacy degree and working as a pharmacist for several years, Sylvia Pamboukian decided to combine her interest in science with her love of literature and pursue graduate school. Having completed an M.A. in English, she is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at Indiana University focusing on science and literature during the Victorian period.

Besides writing for A Moment of Science, she enjoys going to the movies, especially films involving Jane Austen novels or Jackie Chan. Her travels around the globe have taken her to Europe, Central America, Asia and many places throughout North America including into the Artic Circle.  

Michelle Ross holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English from Indiana University. She has a story in Gulf Coast, which won the magazine's 2002 Prize in Fiction, and a story forthcoming in Faultline. She too has cats, two of them, Morocco and Sabine. She also likes running, cooking, and eating, and when she has the time, painting. She grew up in Texas and got her BA at Emory University in Atlanta. 

Jeremy Shere has been writing for A Moment of Science since 2000. He also writes and produces for the radio programs Sound Medicine and Earth & Sky, and has published articles on science and other topics in a variety of magazines, including Indiana University's Research & Creative Activity, Bloom, The Jerusalem Post Weekend Magazine and Reform Judaism. Jeremy has a Ph.D. in English and Jewish Studies from Indiana University. 




 

Even though Eric Sonstroem has been writing for a Moment of Science since 1994, he still hasn't answered all his questions about how the world works. He began as a physics major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, but completed a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University.

In addition to writing for A Moment of Science, he is also a teacher. He writes science fiction on the side, which has appeared in various magazines. He enjoys making and listening to all kinds of music, the great outdoors, other people, and most of the things that go along with being                                            human.

Sue Anne Zollinger started her academic career at the Art Institute of Chicago, but through a long and convoluted path that included an internship at the Field Museum of Natural History, playing guitar in a punk band, catching electric fish in Venezuela, earning a B.S from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, running the world-famous "Pie of the Month Club," and teaching mockingbirds to sing computer-generated tones, she ended up with a Ph.D. in biology from Indiana University.
Besides writing for A Moment of Science, Sue Anne studies how and why birds sing as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.



Michael Paskash is a studio engineer for A Moment of Science, and is originally from Gary, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, and holds degrees from the School of Music and the School of Business. He lives in the country with his wife, two children, and a ferocious cat. Away from the studio Michael likes to perform music, pump iron, cook, travel, and watch movies.