I am a 5th-year PhD candidate in the Neurosciences Graduate Program and previously studied both art history and neuroscience as part of my undergraduate degree. In my current research, I use signal processing and machine learning techniques to uncover neural activity patterns predictive of successful memory formation, and I also have previous research experience in a translational molecular biology lab. I enjoy reading and providing feedback on writing from any and all academic disciplines, and my experience includes writing and/or providing feedback on research articles, grant proposals, fellowship applications, statements of purpose, and teaching and diversity statements. 

I’m a PhD candidate in the Sociology department. My areas of interest include science, knowledge, and technology; social movements; and environmental sociology. My research focuses on the political and scientific processes of determine and declaring drought in California. As a reader and a writer, I am deeply interested in understanding the narrative and the argument a writer makes through their work. As a consultant, I look forward to having conversations with graduate students who are all trying to tell a unique story and helping them craft it in a clear, strong way that demonstrates their perspective.

I’m a 5th-year PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. My areas of interest include chemical dynamics and kinetics, quantum information, molecular simulation, and computational physics. I’m personally interested in sentence structure, formal logic, the origins of words, and other topics that I’ve found useful in writing. I’m excited about sharing everything that I’ve learned during grad school about drafting and polishing manuscripts from the perspective of an ESL student. My main writing experience is on research papers, and I’m happy to provide feedback on grant proposals, fellowship applications, statements of purpose, and teaching and diversity statements

Hey Fellow Grads! I am in the Department of Sociology and I study the experience of professional work in the new economy. I am on the Job Market this Fall and writing my dissertation for a Spring 2020 defense date. I have experience with all job market materials, cover letters, grants, manuscripts, presentations, and IRB. I would also love to help keep you accountable on your big writing projects. I run Writing Retreats here at the Hub (which you should do), and I would love to support you any way I can. Come in at ANY stage of your writing process, even if you haven’t even written words down yet. It’s my sincere pleasure to hear about your work, help you clarify your ideas in writing, and help you build a better relationship with the writing process.

I am a Ph.D student in Marine Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and my research focuses on utilizing molecular tools to understand the evolution and biodiversity of deep-sea invertebrates. I have loved writing since I was a child (and was almost a literature major as an undergraduate), and I really enjoy bringing this passion to my scientific work through writing research articles, lectures, grant proposals, and more. Though my specialty is scientific writing, I am an avid reader and lover of all kinds of writing, and I’m excited to help students with any of their writing needs!

Hello! I am a 6th-year in the history department and am working this year on finishing my dissertation. I have been a writing consultant since fall of 2018. I really like working at the Hub because I get to meet lots of new people from all across the university. Whatever your department of writing project, I am ready and willing to help. I love reading and typing letters on vintage typewriters. Before graduate school, I studied for two years at Peking University, Beijing. *I am proficient in Mandarin and am comfortable consulting in Mandarin Chinese.

My name is Nancy, I’m a 5th year Ph.D. student in the ECE department. My journey with technical writing began as a grad student when I had to submit a conference paper for the first time. It all seemed so different than the essays, and documents I had been reading and writing all my life. It was a huge challenge for me at first, and as a result, it has become my personal mission to constantly learn new ways of improving my own writing and helping others to so as well.

I am a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering. I grew up in China until high school and then came to the US for higher education, until now. My research interests are in exploiting bio-compatible and bio-degradable materials as carriers to facilitate delivery of drugs to targets (e.g., sites of infection, cancer, injury, etc.). I am well trained in scientific writing and have experience in writing proposals for grants. During writing, I focus on logic and believe that good logic is the basis for clear and concise delivery of information.*Comfortable with consulting in both English and Mandarin Chinese

I’m currently a 5th year PhD student in the Department of Cognitive Science, and my Bachelor’s degree is in Biomedical Engineering. My research focus is in computational and cognitive neuroscience, mostly on simulation and analysis of oscillatory and other types of neural population activity, and I sometimes dabble in mining other types of data. I’ve written (and edited) a fair share of academic documents during my time in graduate school, including manuscripts, grants, and class papers. Outside of class, I keep a personal blog on computation, cognition, and philosophy of neuroscience, as well as broader science-related things and musings in life. In general, writing things down in my notebook is a huge part of my thinking process in refining ideas and self-reflection. 

What I enjoy the most when talking to other writers is transforming vague ideas into concrete and concise sentences on paper, while crafting a tight story from problem to solution. Typically, this means creating an explict linear outline that realizes a series of nonlinear thoughts. This can be the motivation behind a proposed research study, the discussion and interpretation of experimental results, or anything in between. It’s really satisfying to explicitly verbalize the problem space and then explore ideas to fill that gap. I also really enjoy finding just the right word to describe a situation or feeling in a clear and precise way. 

I am a 5th-year PhD candidate in the Neurosciences Graduate Program and previously studied both art history and neuroscience as part of my undergraduate degree. In my current research, I use signal processing and machine learning techniques to uncover neural activity patterns predictive of successful memory formation, and I also have previous research experience in a translational molecular biology lab. I enjoy reading and providing feedback on writing from any and all academic disciplines, and my experience includes writing and/or providing feedback on research articles, grant proposals, fellowship applications, statements of purpose, and teaching and diversity statements.