Melissa Lutz Blouin is the director of news and publications for University of Florida Health, where she leads a team of people in a comprehensive program that includes science communications, media relations, publications, and crisis communications. Before joining UF Health in 2012, she was the senior director of academic communications for the University of Arkansas, where she founded the magazine University of Arkansas Research Frontiers. She has more than 20 years of science writing experience, much of it in a university setting. She also worked in newspapers and has written freelance articles for magazines, including Science. She has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Oberlin College, a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master’s degree in French literature from the University of Arkansas.