Public Writing Fellows 2024
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The Graduate School is pleased to announce the third cohort of Public Writing Fellows. Eight UMass graduate students were selected to participate in the program, which aims to help students improve skills in communicating about complex research with non-expert audiences. Fellows took part in communication training throughout the summer, learning different techniques for producing clear, engaging content for a variety of audiences.
As a capstone to the program, Public Writing Fellows interviewed another graduate student and wrote a profile of that student’s research. The resulting research profiles will be published on the Graduate School’s website.
Public Writing Fellows and their profiled student researcher include:
- Shannon Callaham, PhD student in Environmental Conservation, writing about Trisha Brady (Chemistry)
- Ece Derya Senbas, PhD student in Philosophy, writing about Briana Kubik (Microbiology)
- Isabella Hurley, PhD student in Statistics, writing about Angelina Caggiano (Civil Engineering)
- Sarah Mirza, PhD student in Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, writing about Cory Ellen Gatrall (Nursing)
- Lance Piantaggini, PhD student in Education, writing about Karl Lyn (W.E.B. DuBois Department of African American Studies)
- Eric Ross, PhD student in History, writing about Angelica Hill (Linguistics)
- Janelle Welton, PhD student in Molecular and Cellular Biology, writing about Sofiya Shreyer (Anthropology)