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PROFESSIONAL AWARD
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2002 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award,
a national prize for young science writers. Cited for "ability to write about a wide range of subjects" and "lively writing and original style."
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EXPERIENCE
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Writing
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Assistant Editor The Chronicle of Higher Education
(Dec, 1999-Current). Writer of investigative feature articles, trend pieces, profiles, and short news stories about faculty research and publishing for weekly newspaper. Areas covered include biology, medicine, chemistry, and math. Also do occasional editing.
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Assistant Editor Modern Drug Discovery and Today's Chemist at Work
(June-Dec, 1999). Editor and writer of news and feature articles for monthly magazines published by the American Chemical Society.
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Freelance Writer
(Jan-June, 1999). Writer of news and feature articles for publications including New Scientist, The Economist, Health magazine, Science online, Chemistry, and the Alchemist.
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Intern New Scientist
(July-Dec, 1998). Science writer for news and features sections of weekly news magazine of science.
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Intern Stanford News Service
(Spring, 1998). Science writer for weekly faculty/staff newspaper, Stanford Report, and writer of press releases, part-time.
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Intern Santa Cruz Sentinel
(Winter, 1998). Writer for news and features sections of local daily newspaper, part-time.
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Associate Editor Harvard Science Review
(1994-1995). Editor and writer of feature articles in student-run magazine, part-time.
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Research
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Graduate Research Assistant Caltech
(1995-1997). Experimental and computational research in physical inorganic chemistry.
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Graduate Researcher AT&T Bell Laboratories
(Summer, 1995). Research in solid-state chemistry.
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Undergraduate Researcher Harvard University
(1993-1995). Research in synthetic organic chemistry.
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Undergraduate Researcher University of Michigan
(Summer, 1993). Research in synthetic organic chemistry.
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Teaching
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Teaching Assistant Caltech
(1995-1996). Instructed and graded undergraduate organic chemistry lab courses and graduate-level inorganic chemistry course.
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Teaching Fellow Harvard University
(1995). Taught two weekly recitation sections and graded introductory organic chemistry course.
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Teaching Fellow Harvard Summer School
(Summer, 1994). Taught and graded organic chemistry lab.
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EDUCATION
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Graduate Certificate in Science Writing, 1998. ARCS Achievement Award. UCSC Scholarship.
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California Institute of Technology
M.S. in Chemistry, 1997. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. AT&T Bell Laboratories Graduate Research Program for Women Grant.
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Harvard University
A.B. Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry, 1995. Phi Beta Kappa junior year. Iota Sigma Pi. Ford Program and Harvard University Faculty Aid research grants. Detur Book Prize. Harvard National Scholar.
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INTERESTS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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Interests: Choral singing, theater, knitting, swimming,
hiking, traveling.
Member: National Association of Science Writers, DC Science Writers Assocition.
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