As part of my work as the director of communication and social media for an NSF project at the University of New Mexico, I report and write feature stories about work by university scientists.
I recently wrote about Dr. Heather Canavan, a professor of chemical and biological engineering who is working to make the drinks that are needed to prep for procedures like colonoscopies more palatable. As she works with students, she hopes to incorporate the features of a popular drink into something that often tastes gross. Read the story here.
Canavan is working a better way for patients to take drinks to prep for procedures including colonoscopies. Photo by Kate Cunningham
In another piece, I wrote about Dr. Pooné Tehrani, a psychiatrist who has worked to implement an integrated care model for behavioral health patients at one of New Mexico’s largest hospitals.
I also have written about the work of Dr. Heather Edgar, an anthropologist whose work expands the number of CT scans available for researchers looking to make positive identifications of deceased people. The sample size in a widely used database is woefully inadequate, leading to delays and in some cases misidentifications of a person’s population affinity. Edgar hopes to change that. Read the story here.
My writing also includes press releases on news related to women in STEM. I recently published this piece on a grant from the National Institutes for Health aimed at recruiting more diverse faculty in biomedical research.