Dennis' portfolio

The Center for Health Care Financing at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has entered into a five-year $3.75 million contract with the state of Washington...

For the Commonwealth Medicine Division of UMass Medical School, I edited and wrote text for the entire web site of the Center for Health Care Financing.

Leading Authors and Scholars Examine the topic in Dædalus

Three of the country’s leading philanthropic organizations are supporting the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in its goal to ensure safety and security amid the anticipated expansion of nuclear energy around the world.

When an experimental brain operation left him a “profound amnesiac,” Henry Gustav Molaison might have chosen a private existence away from the public eye. Instead he made a gift of his misfortune, willingly exposing himself to the tests of 100 researchers over 50 years.

For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences I wrote and distributed via AP this news story, which was picked up from Boston, Mass., to Lafourche Parish, La., to Jackson, Miss.

I drafted the resolution commending the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and its 231st Class of members on the occasion of the institution’s October 1, 2011 Induction ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I conceived of the Editorial and pitched it to the Boston Globe, which assigned a writer and published the piece.

"Among other initiatives, the center will create new courses, offering opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research on interdisciplinary topics through internships, and organizing special local, national and international conferences…"

"Ralph Waldo Emerson called teaching, 'the perpetual end and office of all things,' and 'the main design that shines through the sky and earth.”'

"Southie, where Ulrich grew up the youngest of eight children, is itself a paradox. As Ulrich explains, it is a place barely clinging to the old ways. It is a place both loved and despised by its denizens. On one hand you’ve got neighborhoods of two-family houses and apartment buildings…"

This sample represents my work across the communications spectrum: I created and marketed the Meet the Author program, which featured three Pulitzer Prize winners among fifty guests in five years, wrote all of the promotional copy, worked on design, and distributed press materials.

I directed the communications and media logistics for this event and for many other visits by celebrities and dignitaries, national and world political leaders.

For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, I wrote and submitted this article to the Associated Press in Boston. It moved on the national wire and was picked up across the U.S., in the New York Times, Washington Post and other major media outlets.

"Eid characterized the incident as an 'isolated' case. He said his three years working on campus have been marked only by harmony and sharing among students of different creeds, as well as a warm and cooperative relationship with his fellow chaplains."

“Christ is here for all people. We should pray for them. We should pray for the Klan and Ed Thrall. Pray for our children and our town,” the Rev. Russell C. Burchard told the ecumenical gathering at Grace Episcopal Church…

"Authorities said the chase began at about noon when one of the convicts, looking for the home of a relative in the area, stopped to ask a state trooper for directions."

"He is but one soldier in a small army of men who kept their delivery routes and trucks when economic sense told H.P. Hood Inc., their employer, to abandon its home service 12 years ago…"

"Today we all feel profound sorrow over the loss of life and injury. We cannot imagine how the families and others directly affected by this must feel; we can only say that we stand with them in their grief and pain."

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- One hundred-seventy-seven of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony here on Saturday, October 1.

"Perhaps Joe Hill, the well-known labor organizer, hobo, songwriter, and rank-and-file member of the Industrial Workers of the World, said it best: 'If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains…'"

"Despite some claims that the region’s population is quickly becoming overwhelmingly Muslim, Klausen said the numbers and prevailing political opinions don’t support that."

"Robin Feuer Miller has literally come full circle since her adventurous days in the spring of 1963, when, at 15, she wandered the grounds of Yasnaya Polyana, the Russian estate where the great Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote War and Peace."

As these published newspaper excerpts demonstrate, I handled media inquiries as the spokesperson for an elite university.

“You drink deeply from wells of freedom that you did not dig,” Booker told the graduating seniors. “To me you have a critical decision to make: To accept conditions as they exist or to take responsibility for changing them.”