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“This summer I decided to leave my comfort zone, geographically and ideologically, and take a road trip.”
5,000 words. For The Progressive Magazine. Published October 2017.
Read MoreThis largely hidden Dane County workforce of subcontractors, the norm at most big-box retailers, works for low pay and no benefits, and has tenuous legal recourse when workplace violations occur.
2,600 words for Isthmus, June 2015.
Read More25I, which is in a family of drugs also known as “n-bomb” and “smiles,” is part of a new wave of synthetic street psychedelics that have been gaining in popularity among young, white Madisonians. Lt. Jason Freedman, a Madison police officer who is part of the Dane County Narcotics Task Force, says that in coming years these drugs may overshadow heroin as the focus of his unit.
2,600 words for Isthmus. April 2015.
Read MoreTeaching assistants are graduate students who work for the university in exchange for tuition remission, health insurance and a living stipend. They are paid little and work hard for their keep. A typical TA with a 41% appointment might make $12,091 in a year.
2,700 words for Isthmus, November 2013.
Read MoreRidglan Farms breeds beagles for research. In 2014, it housed 3,733 beagles, 622 of which were experimented upon in some fashion at the farm itself, according to Burns. Its breeding colony consists of around 750 bitches and 70 studs.
3,000 words for Isthmus, March 2015.
Read MoreAs the UW-Madison's first professor in Hmong American Studies -- the only tenure-track faculty in his field in the world -- Xiong is working to help the university connect with the Hmong community. Yang Sao Xiong has only been in Madison for a year and a half, but the process that brought him here was 20 years in the making.
2,500 words for Isthmus, December 2014.
Read MoreIn his 21 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's veterinary school, Eric Sandgren has seen a lot of controversies. But the UW's most prominent defender of animal research has never seen anything like this.
2,700 words for Isthmus and The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, July 2014.
FOLLOW-UP: UW-Madison animal research oversight committees strive for consensus
FOLLOW-UP: Dane County board panel kills resolution opposing primate maternal deprivation studies at UW-Madison
FOLLOW-UP: University Of Wisconsin Monkey Research Sparks Opposition
FOLLOW-UP: Monkey Research Protesters Take Message To UW Board Of Regents
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