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Alumni Publications
I’ve written feature stories, profiles, books reviews and essays for university and corporate alumni publications, both print and online. Recent stories have included a feature on Houston’s evolving Rice Village shopping district and an interview with New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott.
ARTICLES
A Bold Step
Last fall, President David Leebron announced that Rice would dramatically expand its financial aid policy, making college more affordable for students from middle- and lower-income families.
Rice Magazine
Water Rising
Endnote, Winter 2018.
Wellesley Magazine
3 ways the “splinternet” is damaging society
An intentionally divided internet is a threat to business, innovation, and democracy. Here are three truths business leaders need to know.
MIT Sloan
Job seekers with AI-boosted resumes more likely to be hired
Algorithmic writing assistance can help new job seekers find and fix spelling, grammatical, and usage errors in their resumes. Employers approve, research shows.
MIT Sloan
Harder Work Pays Off for Promotions
Managers prefer to promote hard workers — even if outside candidates are more qualified.
Texas McCombs / Medium
A Little Good Goes Farther Than You Think
People are touched by small kindnesses and led to greater generosity, new research shows.
Texas McCombs / Medium
Planted in Place
From a seed of an idea, a major new addition to the Houston landscape has blossomed along Sims Bayou, turning an underutilized golf course into 132 acres of ecosystems, horticultural displays and walking trails.
Rice Magazine
Inclusive Health Care
Through the Polsky Accelerator program, two entrepreneurs are growing their startup to improve health-care access and quality for the LGBTQ+ community.
Chicago Booth magazine
How Math Can Save Democracy
A new institute at Wellesley supports education and research at the intersection of mathematics and politics.
Wellesley Magazine
The Year of the Pivot
How Rice Business alums adapted to survive — and thrive — in a time of crisis.
Rice Business
Love & Law
Charles Spain’s election to the 14th Court of Appeals caps a legal career centered on civil rights for all.
Rice Magazine
Suffrage Pioneer
A century ago, a member of Rice’s first graduating class became a leader at the center of the women’s suffrage movement in Washington, D.C.
Rice Magazine
The “Nobel Prize of Computing” Comes to Campus
Facebook chief AI scientist and founding director of NYU’s Center for Data Science Yann LeCun developed techniques that laid the foundation for AI.
New York University Alumni Magazine
Think Globally; Act Remotely
The Global Field Experience is a key part of the Rice Business curriculum. This year, students got a cross-cultural experience without ever leaving home.
Rice Business
Pitching it forward
42 startup teams hit it out of the park at the 19th annual Rice Business Plan Competition.
Rice Business
Voices of Stanford GSB
Ian Cinnamon MBA ‘19, founder of Synapse, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help security screening systems at courthouses, schools, office buildings, and airports automatically detect weapons.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Embrace, Engage, Empower
Wellesley College Dean of Students Sheilah Shaw Horton is on a path to infuse more fun into students’ lives, enhance health, wellness and inclusion.
Wellesley Magazine
Dissecting language
Sabriya Fisher is working to create the first ever sociolinguistics lab at Wellesley.
Wellesley Magazine
Make Every Vote Count
Barbara Bluestein Simons was called a Luddite, a crazy activist. But the former IBM researcher is steadfast in her message: Paperless voting machines have no place in U.S. elections.
Wellesley Magazine
Rice's Village
Reuben sandwiches. Green beer. Vinyl. Dresses and suits. For generations of Rice students and faculty, a walk to the nearby Village offered access to all the necessities — and more — of college life.
Rice Magazine
Crafting Suspense
Jeff Abbott '85 is the New York Times-bestselling author of “Blame," which was recently published by Grand Central Publishing.
Rice Magazine
Weathering the storm
Ophera Davis, lecturer in Africana Studies, hopes her study on how college-educated, professional black women from Mississippi fared during Katrina will help women during future disasters.
Wellesley Magazine
Detoxing Leadership
"We’re in an era of toxic leadership," says Claremont business professor and author Jean Lipman-Blumen.
Wellesley Magazine
Defending immigrants, Susan Lineberger Roses '00
"Working with detained clients is very high stress," says the Boston-based immigration attorney who represents refugees and asylum seekers. "The stakes are so high."
Wellesley Magazine
Korea Watch
Wellesley Professor of Political Science Katharine Moon has no delusions that sanctions with North Korea will actually work. "We’re stuck," she says.
Wellesley Magazine
Water, Women, and the Economy
As a Ph.D. student at Yale, Pinar Keskin, associate professor of economics, was studying gender dynamics in households. What really caught her attention were the hours upon hours rural women spent collecting water.
Wellesley Magazine
The Battles That Make a Difference
When Dr. Vivian Pinn, then 19 and a Wellesley premed sophomore, buried her 46-year-old mother, she pledged she would help women’s voices be heard in medicine. It’s a mission she’s delivered on, and more.
Wellesley Magazine
On The Bookshelf: Fall 2017
Rice Magazine
Patently Wellesley
Katie Hall ’84 spent decades working for some of the country’s top research labs, and holds 98 patents, with more pending.
Wellesley Magazine