Earle Holland is Senior Director of Research Communications in the Office of University Relations at Ohio State University. As the university's ranking science communications professional, he oversees communications concerning research activities, including crisis communications involving research risks (lab animal use, human subjects experimentation, radiation safety, biosafety, infection control, computer security and scientific misconduct).

Holland directs the university's national news effort supporting research, which last year won the top national award from CASE for reporting university research, and he manages the university's research news website. . His programs have won more than 60 awards, including three of CASE's Grand Gold awards - one for external tabloids (selected by the editorial staff of the Chronicle of Higher Education) and two for excellence in news writing (selected by the editorial staff of Newsweek). He served three terms on the board of the National Association of Science Writers, is a member and former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also serves on the national advisory committee for EurekAlert!, a research news website run by AAAS.

For the past five years, Holland has written GeoWeek, a weekly column on science and geography distributed internationally to 60 newspapers by the New York Times Syndicate. For 16 years, he wrote a weekly science and medical column for the Columbus (OH), Dispatch and for 20 years taught a graduate level science writing course for Ohio State's School of Journalism. He served on the university's Y2K Task Force and the Ad Hoc Committee on Xenotransplantation. In 1996, he was invited by the National Science Foundation to spend a month in Antarctica reporting on research as part of NSF's national news media program. In 2002, he was national co-chair of a conference called "Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public." He is a former reporter for the Birmingham (AL) News and a graduate of Auburn University.