>> Retired U.S. ambassador and developer Mel Sembler and Home Shopping Network President Marty Nealon have joined the board of advisers of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute...

>> Lucie Ayer, executive director of the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization and a member of the American Institute for Certified Planners, will serve on the national Association of Metropolitan Planning Organization's board of directors...

>> Wit Ostrenko, president of Tampa's Museum of Science & Industry, was elected president of the Association of Science-Technology Centers board of directors...

>> Blaine Brownell, former president of Ball State University, was named interim dean of the College of Business at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.