Published Work (most recent first)

Book!

The History of Vaccines book, based on the website of the same name, was published in 2013.

Clips

I've been busy with non-byline work and editing for the last couple of years, but most of my previous stories are listed below.

2015

• "Hard Headed." SPOKE Magazine, Issue 2, 2015 (print).

2014

• "Shell games." Boston College Magazine, Winter 2014.
• "Good vibrations." Boston College Magazine, Winter 2014.

2009

• "Swarming: From Simple Models to Promising New Robotic Applications." SIAM News, November 2009.
• "Mathematics Meets Oncology and Immunology." SIAM News, October 2009.
• "Making Summer Count: Student Interns Get a Jump on Careers in Math/Computing." SIAM News, July/August 2009.
• "NSF Creates 45 New Postdoctoral Positions." SIAM News, June 2009.
• "This Is Your Brain on (Input Word X)." SIAM News, June 2009.
• "The Van Gogh Project: Art Meets Mathematics in Ongoing International Study." SIAM News, May 2009.
• "Financial Mathematics: Modeling the Market for a Diminishing Resource." SIAM News, January/February 2009.
• "Financial Mathematics: Contagion and Frailty in Clustering of Corporate Defaults." SIAM News, January/February 2009.

2008

• "Digging Out Worthwhile Content on the Web." SIAM News, October 2008.
• "Lung provides breathing room underwater." The Boston Globe, August 25, 2008. (Freelance)
• "Scientist offers new theory of how creatures grow old." The Boston Globe, July 28, 2008. (Freelance)
• "Severe-weather Experiment Puts Leading-edge Numerical Model Technology to the Test." SIAM News, July/August 2008.
• "Drink Up." The Boston Globe, May 19, 2008. (Freelance)
• "Novel Algorithm Speeds Discovery of Electric Power Grid Vulnerabilities." SIAM News, May 2008.
• "Second Novel in Print, Mathematician Manil Suri Ponders his Overlapping Careers." SIAM News, April 2008.
• "Does a drug’s price affect how well it works?." The Boston Globe, March 10, 2008. (Freelance)

2007

• "Prize-winning Video Brings Möbius Transformations to Life." SIAM News, December 2007.
• "Math in a Material World." SIAM News, December 2007. (Book review)
• "From Engine Parts to Monuments, Mathematics-based Software Conjures Accurate 3D Models." SIAM News, September 2007.
• "Medical literacy may help save lives." The Boston Globe, July 30, 2007. (Freelance)
• "Unknown Nanostructures Give Up Secrets to Interdisciplinary Group at LBNL." SIAM News, July/August 2007.
• "MIT’s “Dream Team” Wins SIAM Award for MCM 07." SIAM News, June 2007.
• "Researchers track down genes that cause antibiotic resistance." The Boston Globe, May 28, 2007. (Freelance)
• "Cutting traffic for a few days reduces pollution in China." The Boston Globe, May 7, 2007. (Freelance)
• "An evolving book on evolution (Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives)." Science & Spirit, May 2007. (Freelance book review)
• "Sparse Matrix Algorithm Drives SPICE Performance Gains." SIAM News, May 2007.
• "Drug combinations may be better than sum of their parts." The Boston Globe, April 9, 2007. (Freelance)
• "Excess weight of pregnancy may end up on child." The Boston Globe, April 2, 2007. (Freelance)
• "Long-time Interest in Biorhythms Settles Into Fascination with Oscillations in Cognition." SIAM News, March 2007.
• "Older people taking antidepressants are at greater risk of breaking bones." The Boston Globe, January 29, 2007. (Freelance)
• "Café Scientifique: Spirited Public Discussions of Science Catch On Worldwide." SIAM News, January/February 2007.

2006

• "Youths can take different routes to drug addiction." The Boston Globe, December 11, 2006. (Freelance)
• "The Way We Think About What It Means to Know Things." SIAM News, December 2006.
• "Money may make people feel self-sufficient, self-centered." The Boston Globe, November 20, 2006.
• "Visualizing Mathematical Surfaces." SIAM News, November 2006.
• "The Human Heart Laid Bare." SIAM News, November 2006.
• "Step by Step, Math Models Unlock Secrets of Cancer Biology." SIAM News, October 2006.
• "Taking on the ITER Challenge, Scientists Look to Innovative Algorithms, Petascale Computers." SIAM News, September 2006.

Michelle also guest-posts on Tom Levenson's blog, Inverse Square. You can peruse the blog at random, or try searching for her name there.