Science Writing

I have a long-running passion for making science accesible to the general public through science journalism and thoroughly inaccessible to the general public through esoteric literary essays. My undergraduate institution did not have an English minor, so I simply pretended there was one!

UCO Ask an Astronomer Logo (computer displaying Ask an Astronomer webpage).

Ask an Astronomer

I co-run the UC Ask an Astronomer program where we answer daily emails from the public.

Stars on a black sky with purple gas.

Astrobiological Media

An exploration of astrobiology and ethics with Melody Jue and Zac Zimmer, published in the UC Humanities Research Institue's Foundry journal with the UCSC Astrobiology Initiative.

Yellow flowers and print copy of Innovation magazine.

Innovation Science Journal

As a writer and editor-in-chief for the now-defunct Princeton Innovation science journal, I produced a number of articles, including a peice called "Where's the Water?" which won the Pope Prize for Science Journalism. See archived versions of other articles here.

Writings on Frankentstein

At Princeton I wrote a couple of award-winning and published essays about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I also got to serve on a panel with author Joyce Carol Oates, ethicist Peter Singer, and alumnus Gunnar Rice.