Science Communication

Working with the CMU Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach, I developed an activity about my research on modular robotics for middle school students as part of the "road to research/meet the researcher" program. (March 2021)

CMU Tartan Newpaper, Research Spotlight (April 2018)

http://thetartan.org/2018/4/23/scitech/reschspotlight1

I used to lead Public Communications for Researchers, a CMU organization that teaches graduate researchers to communicate about science with non-experts, and Science Non-Fiction, a blog written by graduate students in Pittsburgh.

Explaining our new ideas without jargon (Dec. 2017)

https://sciencenonfiction.org/2017/12/15/explaining-our-new-ideas-without-jargon/

Robots that Ride the Elevator (April 2017)

https://sciencenonfiction.org/2017/04/11/robots-that-ride-the-elevator

Fantastic Beasts and the Science Behind Them (Nov. 2016)

https://sciencenonfiction.org/2016/11/16/fantastic-beasts-and-the-science-behind-them/

The Mysterious Phone Tumble (June 2016)

https://sciencenonfiction.org/2016/06/12/the-mysterious-phone-tumble/

Six ways a jumping spider is cooler than your cat (Feb. 2016)

https://sciencenonfiction.org/2016/02/22/six-ways-a-jumping-spider-is-cooler-than-your-cat/