My science background and lifelong love of writing led me to attend graduate school for Science Journalism.  Favorite topics to write about include infectious diseases, neurology, the environment, food, and technology, but I am available for freelance science writing assignments of all kinds.

Writing Samples

• Press releases
  • Study illuminates role of cerebrospinal fluid in brain stem cell development (written while employed at Children’s Hospital Boston)
• Class assignments – Unpublished articles written for science journalism courses

Saving Bleeding Trauma Patients: Too Much Tradition, Too Little Evidence

Musical Memories Can Survive Alzheimer’s Destruction

• NutraIngredients-USA.com
  • Beta-carotene research shows conflicting results; dose and duration questions remain
  • Macular xanthophylls and their effects on vision and cognition
• Book of Odds– “The odds of everyday life.”
  • Alzheimer’s: Would You Want to Know Your Risk?
  • Social Phobia: Celebrities Get Stage Fright, Too
  • The State of Affairs: How Many People Cheat?
  • A Scary Year for Those Who Fear Flying
  • Another Flu Season Worry: Dying of Pneumonia
  • Emphysema: The Odds of Being a “Pink Puffer”

• Free Radicals – a web magazine by the Boston University Science Journalism Program
  • Museum of Science…Fiction?
  • Build Your Own Biology Lab

• Science Metropolis
  

• Science at Large:  College Night at the Museum of Science

Experience

• Managing editor of the Journal of Undergraduate Research (University of Rochester, 2004-2006)
• Lab work in an Alzheimer’s research lab (University of Rochester Medical Center, 2004-2008)
• BS in Neuroscience (University of Rochester, 2007)
• MS in Science Journalism (Boston University, 2010)
• Six month contract as Associate Science Editor (Environmental Science department at Pearson Education, a textbook publishing company, 2010)
• Six month contract as Communications Specialist (Stem Cell Research Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, 2010-2011)