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Kristin Juffer has been named director, domestic radio research, at the Arbitron Co., New York.

Katherine Walker has been named project manager at The Market Solutions Group, a Minneapolis research firm resulting from the recent merger of tk associates of Minneapolis and N.K. Friedrichs & Associates.

Dennis And Company Research, Atlanta, Ga., has named Steven J. Campana president and chief operating officer of Dennis And Company's East Coast Division. Kathleen T. Mocniak has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Dennis And Company's MidWest division. She will also serve as general manager of the Minneapolis office, freeing Kevin Menk, executive vice president, to concentrate his efforts on client service and major account activity.

Marketing Support, Inc., Chicago, has named Nancy Carpenter retail project manager.

BAIGlobal Inc., a Tarrytown research firm, has added Steven D. Wolf as senior vice president and qualitative division director.

Jeff Taylor has joined the marketing and sales department of Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, Detroit, as market research manager.

Scantron Corporation, a Tustin, Calif., provider of software, services and systems for the collection, management and interpretation of data, has announced a new organizational structure, which includes three divisions and the naming of three new presidents. Scantron will operate under three separate business units: Scantron Scanning division, Scantron Service division and the newly formed Scantron Technologies division. Larry Moore has been named president of the Scanning division. David Conway was named president of the Scantron Service division. Timothy Loomer was named president of the Scantron Technologies division.

Charles Battista and Robert Bisciglia have joined Savitz Research Solutions, Dallas, as vice presidents.

Lois Kaufman, executive vice president of Princeton, N.J.-based Environmental Research Associates has accepted a one-year term on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Information and Public Access Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. Kaufman will offer advice and feedback on ways to improve the EPA's management of environmental information as well as provide advice to the EPA's newly created Center for Environmental and Information Statistics.

Yan Saguansataya has been named managing director at Focus First America, Stamford, Conn.

Michael Connolly has joined Intelligent Marketing Systems, Minneapolis, as its president and chief operating officer.

Gail Janensch will manage marketing communications and community relations for Greenfield Online, Westport, Conn. In addition, Jason Levy has been named manager of client services, Laura Tabor has been named assistant project director, and Alastair Bruce has been named vice president for client development.

Tim George has joined Cincinnati-based Burke, Inc., as director of human resources.

Digital Marketing Services, Dallas, has named Stuart Kiefer director, business development.

Data Research Services, Atlanta, has added Michelle O'Halloran and Jonathon Clark as research  analysts and Gary Griffin as data collection manager.

Sharon Forshee Haukohl has been promoted to director of sales and marketing at Shop 'n Chek, an Atlanta mystery shopping firm.

Research International USA, New York, has appointed Dan Stults executive vice president and managing director of its consumer packaged goods practice.

Gordon Bailey & Associates, an Atlanta consulting and research firm, has hired Susan Thrower as senior account representative.

Kirk Black has been named manager of analytical services at DSS Research, Fort Worth, Texas.

Bira Nascinmento has joined Eastern Research Services, Springfield, Pa., as MIS director. In addition, Damon Young has been named senior programmer and Maryann Lakofsky has been named manager of the Pennsylvania Phone Room.

Michael Brereton has been named group vice president of the Automotive Research Group of Maritz Marketing Research.

Patrick Palmer has joined the Chicago office of Cramer-Krasselt advertising as vice president, director of account planning.

Aragon Consulting Group, St. Louis, has named H. Lynn Beck research analyst. In addition, Tim Ross has been named market analyst.

Denise Lee Yohn has joined Grace & Rothschild Advertising, New York, as director of account planning.

Clearwater Research, Boise, Idaho, has announced several new hires and promotions. At the Boise office: Cindy Greenfield has been promoted to data collection quality control coordinator; Rebecca Needles has been promoted to data collection supervisor I; Andrea Phillips, Paula Wigger and Mariah Norris have been named research technical assistants; Patrick Thomason has been named data collection supervisor II; Bud Roach has been named human resources assistant director; and Christoph Talkner has been named statistical research intern. At the firm's Council, Idaho, office, Charles Dickinson and Krystin Walker have been promoted to data collection assistant supervisors.