ARQ Wins Two Awards

Actinide Research Quarterly has won two awards in a Society for Technical Communication (STC) Southwest Regional Competition. The magazine won an Award of Excellence for technical art and an Award of Merit for technical publications. The awards were given to three consecutive issues considered as a whole: “Actinide Oxides” (2nd Quarter 2004), “Actinide Oxides II” (3rd Quarter 2004), and “10 Years” (1st Quarter 2005). Over the past several years ARQ has received five Awards of Excellence and two Awards of Merit from STC. Illustrator/designer Susan Carlson and editor Meredith Coonley received the award for technical art. Contributing scientific advisor Mark Paffett, Carlson, and Coonley received the award for technical publications. ARQ’s scientific advisors are David L. Clark and Gordon Jarvinen of the Seaborg Institute. STC’s 15,000 members make it the largest professional society in the world “dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of technical communications,” according to its website.