Portfolio | Amanda Womac | Freelance Science Writer

The New American Gothic

American Gothic captures a moment in agriculture—a snippet, a portrait of an entire profession as old as time. What it doesn’t depict are the years of innovation that led ...Read More

Diversity of Conflict: Anthropological Perspective

Tricia Hepner is the director of a unique program that explores aspects of conflict and disasters in the human experience across three sub-disciplines of anthropology: ...Read More

Diversity of Growth: Reading the Tree Rings

Henri Grissino-Mayer is not a psychic; he’s just good at reading tree rings. More than 30 years ago, he wanted to learn a technique that would tell him about past ...Read More

Strong Hall Residents Over the Moon

In a corner of Strong Hall, UT’s new state-of-the-art science facility, the past and the future coalesce to form the Visualization Lab, informally known as the “Mission ...Read More

Innovations in Carbon Capture

Neil Williams started his college career as a biology student with hopes of going to medical school. However, all that changed when he took organic chemistry. “I fell in ...Read More

Diversity of Thought: Environmental Ethics

John Nolt—a self-described nerd—began his career in the Department of Philosophy teaching philosophical logic. However, like Marvel comic characters, such as Spider-Man, ...Read More

Diversity of the Past: Classical Archaeology

Stephen Collins-Elliott spent the 2015-16 academic year as a fellow at the UT Humanities Center, which not only allowed him to work on his book manuscript, but also gave him ...Read More

Diversity of Writing: Creative Nonfiction

Margaret Lazarus Dean, director of the creative writing program in the Department of English, learned to write fiction. Her latest book, however, is a work of creative ...Read More

Michelle Brown recognized as the 2016 Critical Criminologist of the Year

Michelle Brown got her first taste of criminology when she volunteered at women’s shelters and saw first-hand the limited impact of harsh crime policies. “The women in ...Read More

Celebrating conversos and 400 years of Ets Haim

In the 1600s, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who were forced to convert from Judaism to Catholicism, fled to Amsterdam in order to return to Judaism in a tolerant society. They ...Read More