Writing Archive
Creative Nonfiction
Free Fall [Story Collider/July 23 2022]
On Being (Asian) [Pangyrus/ April 5, 2022]
Into The Woods: Running, Writing, and Living Through a Pandemic [Entropy/ September 28, 2020]
The Basement Where We Fell Out of Love [Curbed/ May 7, 2020]
Not Your Ordinary Experience of Desire [Creative Nonfiction/ March 9, 2020]
It’s Not You, It’s Men [The New York Times/ April 26, 2019]
What using animals for scientific research taught me about myself [STAT / March 11, 2019]
Coming to terms with six years in science: obsession, isolation, and moments of wonder [STAT / October 14, 2018]
What Comes Next: Justin Chen on Bolaño's The Savage Detectives, long-distance family connections, and a syncopation of Circadian rhythms [Essay Daily / June 8, 2015]
Emperors of Self Control [Doctor T.J. Eckelburg Review / April 12, 2013]
Science Journalism
The scientist studying how fugitive fetal cells may affect maternal health [STAT/Nov 1, 2023]
Opinion: As Microbiome Science Forges Ahead, Will Some Be Left Behind? [UnDark/March 23, 2023]
Nectar bats are “wonderful, majestic” and sugar-obsessed. This researcher wants to know how they stay healthy [STAT/ Nov 18, 2022]
Lessons from a Flint water crisis researcher about building trust in science during the pandemic [STAT/ Nov 18, 2021]
Flight of the SPIDER: An Antarctic balloon to study the cosmos' birth [Astronomy/ Jan 28, 2021]
At Google Brain, a computer scientist focuses on data so doctors can focus on their patients instead [STAT/ Nov 16, 2020]
Covid-19 has shuttered scientific labs. It could put a generation of researchers at risk [STAT/ May 4, 2020]
The perfect lab animal is strikingly, surprisingly beautiful [STAT/ August 20, 2018]
In lofty quest to map human memories, a scientist journeys deep into the mind of a worm [STAT/ August 13, 2018]
Study describing genetic instability in cancer cell lines is a ‘wake-up call’ for scientists, drug developers [STAT / August 8, 2018]
Scientists, using new method, coax bioengineered lungs to survive for prolonged period in pigs [STAT / August 1, 2018]
For life’s big questions, Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns try a scientific approach [STAT / July 26, 2018]
Sonic hedgehog and Beethoven: an oral history of how some genes got their names [STAT / July 16, 2018]
Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? [STAT / July 11, 2018 / Reposted in PBS News Hour]
In the age of mail-order DNA, a firm seeks to increase safety without slowing progress [STAT / July 6, 2018. Reprinted in the Boston Globe.]
Scientists can track the spread of opioids in sewers. But do cities want to know what lies below? [STAT / June 26 2018. Reprinted in the Boston Globe.]
With new advances, scientists and drug makers reach for ‘holy grail’ of diabetes treatment [STAT / June 25, 2018. Reprinted in the Boston Globe.]
How can Atul Gawande help reinvent health care with his new company? These people have some ideas [STAT / June 21, 2018]
Muscle and fat loss may offer clues to pancreatic cancer’s deadly ways [STAT / June 20, 2018]
Public Relations
OpenBiome Website [As the Director of External Affairs, I worked with the web design agency Loop and copy editor Hilary Duff to build a new nonprofit website/ October 2022]
Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratios. New discovery suggests that all life may share a common design principle. [MIT News / March 29, 2018]
Sizing up cancer [MIT Biology Dept. Website / February 2018]
An eye for a mouth: How regenerating flatworms keep track of body parts [MIT Biology Dept. Website / February 2018]
A rose by any other name would smell as yeast. Emily Havens Greenhagen ’05 leads a team of scientists brewing perfume from yeast. [MIT News / July 14, 2017]
From MSRP student to MIT professor [ MIT Biology Dept. Website / March 13, 2017]
Face time. Studying the cellular complexities of face development [MIT School of Science Website / December 12, 2017]