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A former newspaper journalist, I now specialize in science communication. Check out some of my work for Duke University, Columbia University, Virginia Tech, and others below.

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Columbia University

Plugging the Leak on Laundry Pollution

  Environment    Health 

Duke Global Health Institute

Eating Wild Game Puts Indigenous Communities at Risk of High Lead Exposure

  Environment    Health 

Duke Global Health Institute

Lead Exposure, Segregation Combine to Widen Achievement Gap

  Environment    Health 

Duke Global Health Institute

The Evolution of an Evolutionary Biologist

  Environment    Health 

Columbia University

Decades After the Oil Spill That Inspired Earth Day, Are We Ready for the Next One?

  Environment 

Duke University

At the Heart of Research and Medicine

  Health    Science 

Duke University

We Are What We Breathe

  Environment    Health 

Columbia University

Using Sound to Study Underwater Volcanoes

  Environment 

Duke University

Ed Miao: Moves and Countermoves in the Immune System

  Health    Science 

Columbia University

Ghosts of Glaciers Past Hint At Future Climate Changes

  Environment 

Duke University

Josh Huang, PhD: Shining a Light on the Traffic Signals in the Brain

  Health    Science 

Duke University

Sniffing Out An Abrupt COVID-19 Symptom

  Health    Science 

Duke University

Carolyn Coyne's Most Beautiful Barrier

  Health    Science 

Virginia Tech

Doctoral Fellow studies impact of climate change, deforestation in Namibia

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Drinking in Global Sustainability - Part 1

  Environment    Travel 

Virginia Tech

Drinking in Global Sustainability - Part 2

  Environment    Travel 

Center for Humans and Nature

Below the Surface

  Environment 

Duke University

Re-Imagining Rural Health Care

  Health 

Duke University

How Do Whales Fight Off Cancer?

  Environment    Health    Science 

Duke University

Rodger Liddle Has A Gut Feeling About the Origins of Parkinson's Disease

  Health 

Duke University

Curing Pediatric Cancer in Tanzania: Kristin Schroeder Breaks Through Barriers to Help Families

  Health 

Duke University

Rising Star

  Health 

Duke University

Sure Signs of Addiction: It's More than Just a "Feeling"

  Health 

Duke University

Science's 'Mother of Ribbon Diagrams' Celebrates 50 Years at Duke

  Health 

Duke University

How Low Can You Go? Xtreme Everest Researchers Went High Up in the Clouds to Find Out

  Health 

Virginia Tech

Cheese, Chocolates, and Case Studies

  Environment    Travel 

Duke University

This Blue Devil Is In the Details: Meet Geeta Swamy

  Health 

Virginia Tech

Researchers find more aggressive behavior in city birds than rural ones

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Harbingers of Halloween spin smart system for scientists to mimic, create new products

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech scientists: Cattle-associated antibiotics disturb soil ecosystems

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Scientists use 'insect perfumes' to lure stink bugs to expendable crops

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Scientists zero in on biological diversity in ‘poor man’s rainforest’

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech researchers find special bacteria in Claytor Lake that can freeze water

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech scientists discover early dinosaur cousin had a surprising croc-like look

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Extreme melt restructured invertebrate ecosystem in Antarctica, scientists say

  Environment 

Mixing of farmed fish and their wild relatives could have adverse impacts on environment, Virginia Tech researcher says

  Environment 

Global Change Center researchers to forecast water quality with NSF support

  Environment 

Even small amounts of oil made birds near Deepwater Horizon sick, Virginia Tech researchers say

  Environment 

Researcher settles decades-old evolutionary biology question by examining Caribbean lizards

  Environment 

Virginia Tech

Fralin Life Science Institute Packages the Tools of Science to Build Virginia's Next Generation of Researchers

  Science 

Virginia Tech

New Weapons in the Fight Against Ovarian Cancer

  Health    Science 

UNCW Arts and Sciences

  Magazine 

UNCW re:search Fall 2009

  Magazine 

UNCW re:search Fall 2010

  Magazine 

The Fralin Explorer Fall 2015

  Magazine 

Researchers find fungus-fighting compound in drug discovery center library

  Health 

Stopping malaria transmission: A Virginia Tech biochemist is out for blood

  Health 

Professor, graduate student unravel mystery of bacteria's antibiotic resistance

  Health 

Fralin researchers design potential blood thinner that also unmasks cancer cells

  Health 

Cancer-slowing compound also combats malaria, researchers find

  Health 

A mosquito sex-determining gene could help fight dengue fever, life science researchers say

  Health 

Fralin researchers use new technology to sequence mosquito sex chromosome

  Health 

Virginia Tech research team calls for examination of connection between human health and environment in Central Appalachia

  Health 

Drug discovery researchers awarded grant to refine malaria drug

  Health 

Virginia Tech researchers help the body protect itself against inflammation and colon cancer

  Health 

Gotta get that rhythm: Researchers find a relationship between sleep cycle, cancer incidence

  Health 

Drug discovery researchers identify, refine compound to combat malaria parasite

  Health 

Genetically diverse cancer cells key to brain tumor resistance, bioscience researchers discover

  Health 

Researchers discover compounds that could decrease fungal infection in lungs

  Health 

Researchers disentangle relationship between autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, and ADHD in children

  Health 

Mosquitoes and malaria: Scientists pinpoint how biting cousins have grown apart

  Health 

Virginia Tech biochemists dip into the health benefits of olives and olive oil

  Health 

Mountaintop mining, crop irrigation can increase salts in freshwater, damage biodiversity

  Environment 

Endangered woodpecker expands home with fungus, Virginia Tech researchers say

  Environment 

Scientists pinpoint genetics behind extreme resistance

  Environment 

Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow investigates false pregnancy in black bears

  Environment 

Virginia Tech geoscientists size-up early dinosaurs, find surprising variation

  Environment 

Pesticides used to help bees may actually harm them

  Environment 

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