Stories by Emily Eggleston

Emily Eggleston is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is pursuing two master's degrees, one in journalism and one in geography. Emily is using her soil science background to guide her research on Japanese American internment camp gardens soils and her creative side to write about the neat and useful science all around her. Data journalism is a new and brightly shining star in Emily's sky; she hopes to makes use of a computer science course for data visualization next semester to sharpen her storytelling skills. Emily blogs at Curious Terrain and her Twitter handle is @EmilyEggleston. Follow Emily Eggleston on Twitter @EmilyEggleston

Health

History, Science and the History of Science

Oxford radiates prestige. The city boasts more than a thousand years of learned history and is one of few British locales with a royal coat of arms. The university glows with momentous locations, such as the place where Robert Boyle discovered Boyle’s law in the seventeenth century and the track where Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile in 1954...

April 26, 2013 — Emily Eggleston

The Sciences

Winter Wonders: The Science of Cold

When it comes to science, temperature matters. And when it comes to Wisconsin, things get really, really cold. When the temperature drops, the world around us changes in a practical and scientific sense...

December 26, 2011 — Emily Eggleston