Emily Durham

About

Emily graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 with a double major in English Writing (Poetry) and Anthropology (Archaeology). While attending Pitt, she worked closely with science writer Hali Felt, was the editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary research and literary journal Forbes & Fifth, and received several awards for her writing, including the ACCIAC Fellowship in Creativity and Innovation and the Alexandra Rowan Writing Award for Poetry. Since her graduation in 2015, Emily has worked at Carnegie Mellon in the College of Engineering, aiming to make the incredible scientific research being done at the university accessible to broad audiences of people. In addition to attending the MAPW program part-time, she is currently a Communications Manager for biomedical engineering and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at CMU, and she believes that science should be accessible to all.