BS, science journalism (cum laude), University of Maryland 1987. Graduate course, literary journalism, UMd 1989.
Licenses: Private investigator registration, identification no. 99-145772, issued by the Dept of Criminal Justice Services, Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond VA.
Freelance 1990-Present
Baltimore Sun, business technology 1989
Washington Technology (now part of the Washington Post), science editor 1986-1989
Defense News, procurement reporter 1988
National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
DC Science Writers Association (DCSWA)
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
National Writers Union (NWU)
Understanding Sex, Discovery Channel/Cronkite Ward & Co. Honorable mention, television category, AAAS 1995 Science Journalism Awards: For excellence in reporting on the sciences.
Hot Air: The Annals of Improbable Research
Apples and Oranges -- A Comparison, by Scott A. Sandford,
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. In:
Annals
of Improbable Research May-June 1995;(1)3.
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
The SAAB Network
America's Most Wanted
The Jacksonville Beach surfcam
Society for Neuroscience Brain Briefings
Cheryl and Cummings the Reindeer.
Writer: Iceman: Mummy from the Stoneage (2000). A 5000-year-old mummy thaws out of a glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991, dressed and equipped for a typical day (his last) in 3200 bc.
Writer: Earth Story (1998), a 6-part series on the formation of the solar system and the evolution of earth over 3.5 billion years; BBC coproduction.
Writer: The Sleep Files (1998) 3-part coproduction with the BBC on the science of sleep.
Writer-researcher: Invisible Places (1997), original miniseries on underground sites and structures, 2 episodes.
Science writer: Pregnancy (2003); Human Biology (2003), with segments on Bones and Muscles, the Senses, and the Brain; Physics: Matter and Energy (2004); and Physics: Matter in Motion (2004).
"Cheryl brings wit and clarity to everything she works on. Her writing is sharp, concise and makes even the most complex ideas understandable. I find other writers consistently complimenting her writing and editing."
—Aric
Noboa, Executive Producer, Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership
Understanding (1995). Cronkite, Ward & Co. Understanding Viruses (writer-associate producer), Understanding Volcanoes (writer-science editor), Understanding Magnetism (researcher-science editor), Understanding Sex (researcher-science editor).
Senior writer-science editor: Quantum (1996). The Learning Channel a 26-week cable science series (with humor).
Writer: The ABCs of Battling Bioterrorism (2001). Technology Review (MIT) (PDF, 284KB).
Researcher/science & images: National Geographic's online 3-D solar system. Credits
TRIPS: How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain (1998), color illus-R Crumb, Ellen Seefelt; Seven Stories Press-NY. German and French translation. Order from amazon.com.
Role of Sleep in Health & Cognition, (2001), in Vital Connections: Science of Mind-Body Interactions: A report on the interdisciplinary conference, National Institutes of Health. Download PDF
"The Next Target of Bioterrorism: Your Food," in Environmental Health Perspectives, V108:3, 2000. Journal pf the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
"Lin*gui'stics: It's not just about words anymore" College Park Magazine, 1999. (College Park Online)--
Alternatives to Incineration: There's More Than One Way to Remediate; in Environmental Health Perspectives, V102:10, 1994. Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Technical Insights, John Wiley & Sons (1998-1999). Technical reports on optical sensors, laboratory automation, data warehousing.
Science in Dispute, Vols. 1 (2000) and 3 (2002), Gale/Thomson. Essays on a Human Proteome Project, late Precambrian life forms (Ediacaran biota), earthquake hazards in the New Madrid (MO) Seismic Zone.
Herbal Medicine chapter, in Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons: A Report to the National Institutes of Health on Alternative Medical Systems and Practices in the United States (1994). National Institutes of Health.
Maps, Charts & Graphs chapter, New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style & Usage (1994) HarperCollins.
Time-Life Books
Washington Post
National Science Foundation
Industrial Robot, Assembly Automation, Sensor Review, Service Robot, MCB University Press, West Yorkshire UK.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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