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Writing as storytelling

Writing is a daily means of capturing and sharing the important work of an organization. From short form social media posts and web copy to longer form feature articles and script writing. Here are examples of writing as storytelling to share the inspired work of people in academic and conservation organizations.

Division of Research | Brown University •

Empowering faculty: Insights from federal proposal writing workshop

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Despite uncertainties in the federal funding landscape, 175 faculty members from across Brown participated in the two-day “2025 Proposal Development Workshop for Federal Funding Targets (NIH, NSF & More)” for expert guidance on developing proposals for federal funding agencies in biological sciences, physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, public health, and humanities.Held virtually on February 13-14, the workshops were organized by the Research St...
Impact: Research at Brown •

A Spirit of Summer Inquiry

The story of a summer research project at Brown often begins with a project idea, the desire to advance a professor’s area of research, or a burning question. Ten weeks later, methods have been followed, data collected, and results documented. With discoveries at their fingertips, student researchers are eager to share their stories at Brown’s Summer Research Symposium, held annually in August.

This year, nearly 300 undergraduate students from over 70 national and international higher education...
Suffolk Business Alumni Magazine •

Brand Piracy

Whether you're on Canal Street in New York City or Nanjing Road in Shanghai, utter the right brand name and you can be deep in the basement of a hair salon, snack house, or t-shirt shop in a room bursting with fake bags and watches. In China, however, it doesn't stop there: knockoffs are haggled over in open "fake markets," sold in malls with spinoff storefronts—Buckstar coffee, Pizza Huh, Hike—and hawked on Taobao, China's eBay, often for one-tenth of the price of the real product.
Special Places magazine of the Trustees of Reservations •

The Big Backyard

NEARLY 100 YEARS AGO, THE 2,100-ACRE CRANE ESTATE in Ipswich was a playground, the summer retreat of Richard T. Crane, Jr., his wife Florence, and their two children, Cornelius and Florence. This summer, the normally serene estate became a playground once again, echoing with the sound of children laughing along stone paths and dirt trails, squealing in delight in the Vegetable and Italian Gardens, and singing loud and long as they hiked around the property.
Whole Terrain •

Volume 7: Editor’s Note — Transience, Permanence, and Commitment

We are explorers. We gaze at the horizon, the mountaintop, the moon, and our thoughts travel far beyond. We reach for those places that are as far as the eye can see, heading out over boundless waters and unknown terrain in the search for new lands. All throughout history people have been on the move. Early explorers dispersed from East Africa, Asia, and Europe more than 30,000 years ago, eventuall...
Suffolk Arts+Sciences magazine •

Infinity—a play about perception

One by one, a small crowd assembled in front of the Parkman Pavilion on the Boston Common. People sat on the grass, taking in the April afternoon sun while a guitarist draped in an American flag strummed and strolled among them. Six girls in gray t-shirts and jeans, and another with a bullhorn, walked slowly to the ‘stage’ in front of the pavilion and stood in formation facing the audience. “America… land of infinite possibility,” they chorused.