Writing & Editing Samples

WROTE: Father-Daughter Duo Rally For Rural Rights (SRWN). For two people who’ve never rallied their neighbors around public health issues, Sam Bowen and Ty Fisher have become a formidable team committed to standing up for their rural community.
WROTE: The Hub That a Neighborhood Built (MARQUETTE MAGAZINE). A renovated jewel of a building, Concordia 27 brims with Marquette and community connections. It’s the culmination of the Near West Side Partners’ decade-long drive to improve life in the neighborhood.
WROTE: Water Born (MARQUETTE MAGAZINE). As contamination from animal feeding operations threatens a community, a cross-disciplinary research team moves into action.
WROTE: On the Table for Thanksgiving: Lab-grown Turkey (SEEKER). Marie Gibbons wants to make turkey meat without the turkey.
WROTE: The World Has a Fertilizer Problem. Bioengineered Corn Could Save Us. (DISCOVER) Multiple scientists are working to grow corn that can fertilize itself, bypassing the need for nitrogen-based products responsible for polluting the environment.

WROTE: This Small Island Is Taking on a Big Problem — Climate Change (EXPERIENCE). A grassroots movement on Mount Desert Island aims to achieve energy independence by 2030, and improve efficiencies in the island’s buildings, transportation, food systems, and waste streams.

WROTE: There’s a Huge Drinking Water Problem Plaguing Rural America, Too (GIZMODO). More than 6 million people living in rural and farming communities have water contamination problems.

EDITED: Shapeshifting Materials Could Transform Our World Inside Out (DISCOVER). From medicine to space travel, Chuck Hoberman’s shape-shifting is expanding scientific research.

EDITED: 60 Years Of SETI: The Search for Alien Life in the Cosmic Haystack (DISCOVER) Are we alone in the universe? What six decades of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence can teach us about this profound and eternal question.
EDITED: This VR Film Shows the Beauty Hidden in Africa’s Largest Slum (SEEKER). “My Beautiful Home,” an immersive experience created by young filmmaker Romain Vakilitabar, uncovers the energy and sense of community inside Kibera, Kenya.

WROTE: Can Factories Become Good for the Environment? (CXO). Some barons of industry are building factories that give more to the planet than they take away, saving money and creating more productive spaces for workers in the process.

WROTE: A Vaccine that Could Spread Like a Virus (EXPERIENCE). Researchers hope to prevent the next pandemic by stopping diseases in animals.

WROTE: A Team of Nine Undergraduate Students Builds Innovative Jumping Robot for Their Final Project (MATHWORKS).
WROTE: She Heard the Call of Wolves  (EXPERIENCE). Mexican gray wolves are feared, hated, and imperiled, and have been at the center of a roiling controversy between people who want to save the animal and those who want it eliminated. Jean Ossorio, 75, has seen more of these predators than almost anyone.

WROTE: Stargazers Fight to Save the Dazzling Dark (EXPERIENCE). Meet some of the people dedicated to studying and preserving dark skies around the world and potentially capitalizing on them to boost rural economies.
WROTE: Antarctic Farm Could One Day Journey to Mars (How Stuff Works). This shipping container experiment pushes the limits of indoor agriculture, so that the technology can hold up for a long mission to Mars.

WROTE: Solar Developers are Transforming Vast Energy Farms Into Pollinator Habitats (GIZMODO). Seeding industrial-sized solar power installations with native, pollinator-friendly plants is cheaper than gravel or grass and provides important forage for wild pollinators and honeybees.

WROTE: A Cooler Cloud: A Clever Conduit Cuts Data Centers’ Cooling Needs by 90 Percent (IEEE SPECTRUM). The company that created it, Forced Physics, plans to install the technology in a pilot plant in February.

WROTE: Mapping Fishing Vessel Traffic Analysis (INSIDE SCIENCE). Analysis of vessel interactions reveals large potential for illegal activities, researchers say.

EDITED: The Quantum Internet Will Blow Your Mind (DISCOVER). The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light.

WROTE: Sunlight Fuels This Car (MATHWORKS). The world’s first solar-powered car gets up to 450 miles of range on a single charge.

WROTE: Soaring ‘SuperTowers’ Aim to Bring Mobile Broadband to Rural Areas (IEEE SPECTRUM). One tethered, autonomous aerostat flying at 250 meters can provide coverage for up to 10,000 square kilometers, an area that would normally require between 20 and 30 cell phone towers.

AUTHORED: Rocks and Minerals (Reader’s Digest Pathfinders series). A great book for rock hounds young and old. It’s filled with colorful pictures, descriptions and fun facts. A must for students or anyone interested in learning about the world around us.

WROTE: Wasted Bread Is Being Brewed into Craft Beer (HOW STUFF WORKS). Since Toast Ale launched in the U.K. in 2016, it has saved more than 11 tons (10 metric tons) of bread from becoming trash.
WROTE: Our ‘Technosphere’ – 30 Million Tons Of Man-made Stuff (SEEKER). For the first time, scientists have estimated the weight of all of the structures, products and waste that humans have created.
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