Many of today’s prospective college students are interested in sustainability issues. Susquehanna University, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, has a lot going on regarding environmental stewardship and it rightfully wanted its website to accurately reflect that. I previously wrote a 2015 cover … Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Each December and May I profile a handful of seniors who are graduating from Temple University’s College of Engineering. I love interviewing promising students on the cusp of moving on to exciting jobs or interesting graduate programs, and I am … Continue reading
For an English major and lifelong reader of fiction, an opportunity Susquehanna University gave me earlier this year was a dream assignment. In conjunction with the 205th celebration of novelist Charles Dickens’ birthday, I was asked to write a web … Continue reading
This past academic year I wrote, edited and helped project manage two issues of Educator, The Temple University College of Education’s 24-page magazine. The fall 2016 issue cover story profiled Linda Darling-Hammond, EdD ’78. After holding high-powered education faculty positions at both … Continue reading
The spring 2016 issue of the Educator, the magazine of the Temple University College of Education, features the extensive partnerships the college has forged with the two Philadelphia School District elementary schools that are closest to the university’s North Philadelphia campus. The … Continue reading
Prior to this spring’s graduations at Temple University, I wrote six web stories about successful graduating College of Engineering students and also profiled a successful graduating chemistry major from the College of Science and Technology. I also wrote a story … Continue reading
The latest issue of the West Chester University Magazine features a cover story I wrote on the tenure of President Greg Weisenstein, who stepped down this spring after leading the burgeoning state school since 2009. To write the text for … Continue reading
For the second year in a row, I highlighted the work of more than a dozen faculty members and a half-dozen undergraduate students for West Chester University’s 2014-15 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Annual Report. Gautam Pillay, PhD, WCU’s associate vice president for … Continue reading
Last August, for the second time in as many months, I donned thigh-high waders to wade through a creek—this time just south of Selinsgrove, Pa., in a narrow stream whose waters shortly thereafter drain into the extremely broad Susquehanna River. … Continue reading
Last summer, I found myself in thigh-high waders making my way through a shallow creek near the Jenkintown train station. I was there to observe a Temple biology major and computer science major who were involved in aquatics research with … Continue reading