Graduate Student Alumni
Dr. Jessie Rack, (@JessieRack) Lecturer @ Princeton University. Former AAAS Media Fellow and NPR blogger.
- NPR’s The Salt Blog: Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects
- NPR’s Shots Blog: Not Everybody Likes Kissing
- NPR’s Goats & Soda Blog: A Self-Taught Artist Paints The Rain Forest By Memory
- NPR’s The Two Way Blog: Rivers Run Through This Exhibit Of Colombian Art
- Personal Blog: I Spell it Nature
Dr. Kevin R. Burgio, (@KRBurgio) Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Connecticut
- American Scientist: Open Science Isn’t Always Open to All Scientists
- Washington Post: The mysterious and tragic story of the Carolina parakeet, America’s only native parrot
- Variations of The mysterious and tragic story of the Carolina parakeet, America’s only native parrot also published in: IFLScience, Salon, Real Clear Science, and The Conversation
Katie Sypher, co-founder UConn STEMtalk Magazine.
Tanisha Williams, PhD Candidate @ University of Connecticut
- 2nd place in the 3 Minute Dissertation Competition
Amanda Coletti, Graduate Student @ University of Connecticut, contributor to The Odyssey
- I Let Myself Be Changed, And It Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
- You Don’t Have To Fit The Mold To Be A Successful Woman
- Personal Blog: Illuminated Brain
Jaleigh Pier, MS – Public Relations Blog Editor for Palaeontologia Electronica
- New Species of Fish from the Genus Eoseminotus
- Leaf Cuticle Reveals Effects of Climate Change on New Zealand Forests
Ellen Johnson, MS
- Blog: CurrentSea
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Gwendolyn Craig, Reporter for the Glen Falls N.Y. Post-Star
- ‘A year of recovery:’ Owasco Lake’s water quality better, but cyanobacteria problem worsens
- Lake mowing: Cayuga County Soil and Water District cuts Owasco Lake weeds, preps for Cayuga
- Hoping for more help, Cayuga County calls on state, feds for additional action around blue-green algae
- Bald eagle survey reveals new occupied nest at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
- More than 70 bald eagles counted during midwinter survey at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
Marlese Lessing, winner of the University of Connecticut Journalism Department’s Michael J. Whalen Award