I’m passionate about synthesizing in-depth research with compelling narratives that keep readers reading. I’ve interviewed literary heavyweights Jonathan Safran Foer and Junot Diaz, reported on renowned climate change initiatives in Europe, and gotten up-close-and-personal with Ralph Lauren’s coveted car collection.

 

 

Boosting Community Conservation in Europe

No cars. No cell phones. And lots of straw houses. “Sieben Linden” isn’t your typical town, it’s a thriving eco-village in the heart of the Sachsen-Anhalt region of the former East Germany where residents have quietly fashioned a micro-society in the service of sustainability.

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Crowdsourcing Biodiversity: Citizen Science Comes of Age

Michael Münch loves bugs. The 43-year-old IT pro doesn’t have a degree in entomology, or any peer-reviewed articles in the major insectology publications, but the self-taught bug lover does have a vast collection of books and a keen desire to aid the science community in collecting essential data about insects and plants.

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Online College Texts Are Free, but Not Free from Ads

When student Shah Nizami walked into the campus bookstore at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, last spring, he was told not to buy a textbook for his business finance class. On the first day of the class, Mr. Nizami found out why: His finance professor, Yash Puri, told students they could download their books from the Web free of charge.

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A Dominican Teen Shadowboxes with His Past

It has taken Dominican American author Junot Díaz more than a decade to pen the highly anticipated follow-up to his much acclaimed, best-selling short story collection "Drown." It was these gritty tales about the Dominican experience that cemented his status as an overnight literary success.

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