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Alumni Publications
I’ve written feature stories, research insights, profiles, press releases, books reviews and essays for university and corporate alumni publications, both print and online. Recent stories have included a feature on how math can save democracy and a research piece on a key reason American voters support divisive misinformation.
FEATURES
A Bold Step
President David Leebron announced that Rice would dramatically expand its financial aid policy, making college more affordable for students from middle- and lower-income families.
Rice Magazine
How Math Can Save Democracy
A new institute at Wellesley supports education and research at the intersection of mathematics and politics.
Wellesley Magazine
Inclusive Health Care
Through the Polsky Accelerator program, two entrepreneurs are growing their startup to improve health-care access and quality for the LGBTQ+ community.
Chicago Booth magazine
Justice Center: 20 years of impact
This year, the Justice Center celebrates its 20th anniversary as it embarks on its first ever change in leadership.
UT Law
3 ways the “splinternet” is damaging society
An intentionally divided internet is a threat to business, innovation, and democracy. Here are three truths business leaders need to know.
MIT Sloan
Planted in Place
From a seed of an idea, a major new addition to the Houston landscape has blossomed along Sims Bayou, turning an underutilized golf course into 132 acres of ecosystems, horticultural displays and walking trails.
Rice Magazine
Pitching it forward
42 startup teams hit it out of the park at the 19th annual Rice Business Plan Competition.
Rice Business
Students drive parole project
Texas Law’s Parole Project is now the largest provider of pro bono parole services in the entire state of Texas.
UT Law
Rice's Village
Reuben sandwiches. Green beer. Vinyl. Dresses and suits. For generations of Rice students and faculty, a walk to the nearby Village offered access to all the necessities — and more — of college life.
Rice Magazine
Cutting Edge
How Rice transformed an aging Sears building to create an innovation hub that could help make Houston the next Silicon Valley.
Rice Business
RESEARCH INSIGHTS
Flexible Morals: A Key Reason American Voters Support Divisive Misinformation
Research from Rice Business, MIT Sloan finds American voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of factuality but support their favorite politicians when their statements express a “deeper truth” they support.
Rice Business
Job seekers with AI-boosted resumes more likely to be hired
Algorithmic writing assistance can help new job seekers find and fix spelling, grammatical, and usage errors in their resumes. Employers approve, research shows.
MIT Sloan
Harder Work Pays Off for Promotions
Managers prefer to promote hard workers — even if outside candidates are more qualified.
Texas McCombs / Medium
Collusion Course: Why Price-Fixing Schemes Survive or Collapse
A look at the Vitamins Inc. cartel reveals what causes businesses to choose conspiracy over competition.
Stanford GSB
A Little Good Goes Farther Than You Think
People are touched by small kindnesses and led to greater generosity, new research shows.
Texas McCombs / Medium
The savings of corporate giants
Large corporations like Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet hold complex financial portfolios. Many investors are not aware that these holdings expose them to additional risk.
MIT Sloan
The Secrets of Highly Successful Young Entrepreneurs
Getting a head start may help founders, but learning and taking risks are key to growth.
Stanford GSB
Auto-Renew Snags New Subscribers — But It’s Not a Good Way to Keep Them
Companies seeking loyal consumers shouldn’t take advantage of their tendency to stick with unwanted subscriptions.
Stanford GSB
Why Tech Companies Should Sponsor Hackathons
Temporary gatherings — like conferences and hackathons — are essential to attracting third-party developers.
Rice Business
For Better Loan Terms, Find a Partner
Companies in strategic alliances get better access to financing and more desirable terms
Texas McCombs / Medium
Apps Get Better When Developers Diversify
When software companies develop for multiple platforms, they attract more users to the original product
Texas McCombs / Medium
Why Do Stocks Go Up When POTUS Drops By?
Presidential visits lead to short-term stock gains, especially when there’s a unified government.
Rice Business
PROFILES
Detoxing Leadership
"We’re in an era of toxic leadership," says Claremont business professor and author Jean Lipman-Blumen.
Wellesley Magazine
Love & Law
Charles Spain’s election to the 14th Court of Appeals caps a legal career centered on civil rights for all.
Rice Magazine
Voices of Stanford GSB
Ian Cinnamon MBA ‘19, founder of Synapse, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help security screening systems at courthouses, schools, office buildings, and airports automatically detect weapons.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Innovating a solution for infertility
Giuliano Testa, ’11 (XP-80), is a pioneer of uterus transplants in the United States—and hopes that his program can continue to help make inroads into infertility treatment.
Chicago Booth
Suffrage Pioneer
A century ago, a member of Rice’s first graduating class became a leader at the center of the women’s suffrage movement in Washington, D.C.
Rice Magazine
The “Nobel Prize of Computing” Comes to Campus
Facebook chief AI scientist and founding director of NYU’s Center for Data Science Yann LeCun developed techniques that laid the foundation for AI.
New York University Alumni Magazine
The Battles That Make a Difference
When Dr. Vivian Pinn, then 19 and a Wellesley premed sophomore, buried her 46-year-old mother, she pledged she would help women’s voices be heard in medicine. It’s a mission she’s delivered on, and more.
Wellesley Magazine
Defending immigrants, Susan Lineberger Roses '00
"Working with detained clients is very high stress," says the Boston-based immigration attorney who represents refugees and asylum seekers. "The stakes are so high."
Wellesley Magazine
Weathering the storm
Ophera Davis, lecturer in Africana Studies, hopes her study on how college-educated, professional black women from Mississippi fared during Katrina will help women during future disasters.
Wellesley Magazine
Make Every Vote Count
Barbara Bluestein Simons was called a Luddite, a crazy activist. But the former IBM researcher is steadfast in her message: Paperless voting machines have no place in U.S. elections.
Wellesley Magazine
Korea Watch
Wellesley Professor of Political Science Katharine Moon has no delusions that sanctions with North Korea will actually work. "We’re stuck," she says.
Wellesley Magazine
Water, Women, and the Economy
As a Ph.D. student at Yale, Pinar Keskin, associate professor of economics, was studying gender dynamics in households. What really caught her attention were the hours upon hours rural women spent collecting water.
Wellesley Magazine
PRESS RELEASES
Climate change
Banks are making climate commitments, but are they actually making a difference?
MIT Sloan
How credit is allocated during booms can predict busts
New MIT Sloan research finds firms producing domestic goods and services most strongly predict potential economic slowdowns and systemic crises, with implications for policymakers looking to bolster the economy and safeguard the financial system.
MIT Sloan
Flexible morals: A key reason American voters support divisive misinformation
New research from Rice Business, MIT Sloan finds American voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of factuality but support their favorite politicians when their statements express a “deeper truth” they support.
MIT Sloan
ESSAYS
Water Rising
Endnote, Winter 2018.
Wellesley Magazine