Higher Ed

A number of years ago, a friend who worked at an alumni magazine offered me a couple of assignments. It didn't take long to get hooked.

Since then, I've written for institutions ranging from Columbia, Penn, and Juilliard to NYU-Poly, Denison, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Florida, Penn State, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. (I've also written a good deal of marketing and PR material for universities and research organizations, some of which you can see here.)

I love the variety—I've had the opportunity to tackle everything from molecular biology and financial engineering to environmentalism and haute couture—and I'm even able to get back in touch with my roots as a failed academic. (Yes, that's me in the photo, doing fieldwork in West Africa. Yes, I really am that pale. And no, I am not wearing a table cloth.)

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• Dogs, Doses and Devices: The FDA's Ambitious Plans for Computational Modeling (PDF)
  How the Food and Drug Administration is using computer models to evaluate everything from vaccines to artificial hips.
  Biomedical Computation Review

• Distant Drums
  How I got my Ghanaian groove back.
  YorkU Magazine

• Law School Rallies around One of its Own (PDF)
  When Jimmy Anderson was injured in a tragic car crash, his fellow students at the University of Wisconsin Law School circled the wagons.
  Gargoyle

• Risky Business?
  See how you may be supplying everything a hacker could ever wish for (and then see exactly how to crush their hopes and dreams).
  The Florida Engineer

• Exploding the Piano (PDF)
  Avant-garde pianist Kathleen Supové gives the piano recital a much-needed makeover.
  Pomona Magazine

• Carrying on the Leopold Legacy
  Paleobotanist Estella Leopold has spent her career trying to understand and protect the environment. And why not? It's the family business.
  On Wisconsin Magazine

• The Case of Inmate No. A246292
  Dean Gillispie has spent 20 years in prison for kidnapping and rape. Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro believes he is innocent—and has made it his job to free him. (Download the PDF version with all the photos.)
  Denison Magazine

• Saving Haiti's Frogs (PDF)
  Biologist Blair Hedges takes a stand for the island's embattled amphibians.
  The Penn Stater

• Her Career's in the Toilet (but that's a good thing)
  Dari Marder creates scandalous ads for Iconix.
  Hue Magazine

• A Star Is Born
  Meet astrophysicist Steve Doty, obstetrician to the stars.
  Denison Magazine

• Listen Up (PDF)
  Amid the growing din of radio's talk and shock, Roe Conn leads Chicago's airwaves as the voice of reason.
  Denison Magazine

• Virtually Real
  Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute help us see the real world in new ways.
  WPI Research

• Kitchen Cred
  Former Top Chef Lee Anne Wong cooks up a great career.
  Hue Magazine

• A New World of Possibility (PDF)
  Scientists and engineers at New York University and NYU-Poly team up to break new ground in science and technology. (Click here for a related article on research into shockproof battle armor, nanoscale biodetectors, and synthetic DNA.)
  Cable Magazine

• Out with the Old School
  Denison University's classrooms go high-tech.
  Denison Magazine

• It's All About Trust
  Just how safe is the information we store and transmit electronically?
  WPI Research

• A Personal Approach
  The quiet power of Bernard Haitink.
  The Juilliard Journal

• One Smart Cookie
  Carolyn Kremins brings publishing expertise to Cookie, Condé Nast's parenting magazine. (But not enough: Just a few short months after this piece was published, Condé Nast shut Cookie down.)
  Hue Magazine

• Financing a Columbia GS Degree in the 21st Century
  Making ends meet at Columbia University's School of General Studies.
  The Columbia Owl

• Waste Not...
  David Stoller wants to turn your garbage into fuel.
  The Pennsylvania Gazette

• Facing the Unthinkable
  Pennsylvania Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller remembers the Amish schoolhouse slayings of 2006.
  The Penn Stater

• Bed Head
  Aaron Stewart, bed-linen designer.
  FIT Network

• In Memoriam: Vagn Flyger
  The man who loved squirrels.
  The Penn Stater

• Leveling the Playing Field
  Wi-fi for all at St. John's University.
  The ACUTA Journal of Communications in Higher Education

• The Life Aquatic
  Dances with whales.
  FIT Network