Arielle S. Emmett

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Specialty Subjects : Aviation and Aerospace, China and Taiwan, engineering and medical technology, IT, health and fitness, investigative science reporting, nature and the environment.

Book Credits : Co-Author: Direct Connections – Making Your Personal Computers Communicate ( New American Library 1986; Editor: Astronomy, Biochemistry (Review text, Springhouse Corp. 2000); Editor: Clinical Pharmacology & Nursing (Springhouse, 1996, 3 rd edition, Baer-Williams), Co-author, Editor: Wireless Data for the Enterprise (McGraw-Hill, 2001); Wireless Data Solutions – Case Studies (Wireless Internet Caucus/Wireless Data Forum 2001), Revolt of the Ants: A Director's Life Through Six Decades of Theatre & Politics (2004, XLIBRIS, editor ). Chemical Filtration (Rohm Haas, 2006). Developmental Editor: T echnological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa: Digital Transformation and Opportunity for the Next Growth Continent. Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, UK. Author, '' Two Kinds of Time: the Chinese-Kenyan Infrastructure Disconnect,'' in Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa. Edward Elgar Publishing UK. Author: The Logoharp: A Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121 ( Leaping Tiger Press, 2024). Recipient of five awards and citations, including the Nautilus Book Awards 2025 Silver winner in Science Fiction. Editor: Power Presentations on the Business Stage （魅力 商业 演讲). Peking University Press, 2019).

Enter your professional bio here : Arielle Emmett, Ph.D., is a writer, visual journalist and traveling scholar specializing in East Asia, science writing, and human interest. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholar grant to study the Chinese impact on infrastructure, labor and human rights in Kenya (2018-2019), where she taught research and legal writing at Strathmore Law School, Nairobi. Emmett was granted a 2015 Fulbright Specialist fellowship, teaching visual media, journalism history and online journalism curriculum at Universitas Padjadjaran, West Java, Indonesia. She has been a contributing editor to Smithsonian Air & Space magazine covering the James Webb telescope, Chinese presence in aviation and aerospace, women in flight, and ''green'' aviation technologies. In 2013 Emmett taught online graduate journalism as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong. After graduating with her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, she joined the faculty at Univ. of Colorado Denver in Beijing, teaching culture and communication at International College Beijing. A Mandarin and French speaker, Emmett has been a professional journalist and teacher since beginning her career as a correspondent for Newsweek in the 1970s. Her articles have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals, including Smithsonian.com, Mother Jones, Washington Times, Caixin (Beijing), Boston Globe, Toronto Globe & Mail, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, Ms., OMNI, Parents., Saturday Review, Computer World, Visual Communication Quarterly, and American Journalism Review, among many others. Arielle' first novel, The Logoharp: a Cyborg Novel of China and America in the Year 2121 (Leaping Tiger Press, 2024), was named Silver Winner for Science Fiction in the Nautilus Book Awards 2025. The novel also earned four other awards and citations, including the American Fiction Awards 2024 Finalist in Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk, a LIterary Titan Gold Book, and an Editor's Pick and Editor's Choice at Publishers Weekly Booklife and The Reader's House (UK, 2025). Her blog on Asia and African affairs appears at www.arielleemmett.com/category/blog. http://jmsc.hku.hk/2013/09/veteran-journalist-joins-jmsc-faculty/ http://www.merrill.umd.edu/ http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/InternationalPrograms/OIA/InternationalCollegesPartnerships/Beijing/Pages/International%20College%20Beijing%20%28ICB%29.aspx

Writing Credits : see www.arielleemmett.com
 Published in: Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Air & Space, American Journalism Review, Visual Communication Quarterly, Earth, Eastern Digest, Caixin (Beijing), The Scientist, Real Science, MIT Technology Review, America’s Network, Wall St. Journal Market Watch, IDC Government, Computer World, InformationWeek, The New York Times, The Detroit Free Press, OMNI, MS., Parents, Physicians’ Management, Saturday Review, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Washington Times, Oakland Tribune, IEEE Spectrum, Good Times, Cardiology Emergency Decisions, Nursing, Globe and Mail (Canada).

Awards and Recognition : ASJA Annual Writing Competition 2021 ''Social Change'' for articles in Smithsonian Air & Space on Women Pilots (''What are US Airlines Missing? Women Pilots'' September 2020. ( Women Pilots) Fulbright Specialist, Indonesia 2015. Fulbright Scholar, Kenya (2018-2019), investigating the Chinese impact on Kenya's infrastructure development, labor and human rights. Sigma Delta Chi Award (Washington State), Investigation of Mt. St. Helens disaster 1981 Doctoral Dissertation: '' Haunting Images: Differential Perception and Emotional Response to the Archetypes of News Photography – A Study of Visual Reception by Gender and Expertise. Nominated by Philip Merrill College of Journalism for Distinguished Dissertation of the Year (2011), University of Maryland. First Prize, 2009, Visual Communications Division, International Communications Association (ICA), for paper: '' Pictures of a Floating World: The Philadelphia Inquirer Seeks a Communications Calling in Cyberspace .'' Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol 17, No. 4, 2010). Third Prize, Journalism history division, AEJMC, August. 2010, for paper: '' Women & Children of the Santa Anita Race Track: Japanese-American internment through the lens of Clem Albers & the War Relocation Authority, 1942''. Published as ''Silent Soliloquy: An Unknown Photographer Chronicles the 'Inscrutable Laughter' of Japanese American Internment '' Visual Communication Quarterly, June 2013. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/what-are-us-airlines-missing-women-180975608/

Skills (Select all that apply) : Annual reports, Advertorials, Blog posts, Books, Case studies, Communications strategy, Conference coverage, Curriculum, Editing, Essays, Feature writing, Grant writing, Investigative reporting, Op-Ed, Photography, Scripts, Technical writing, White papers, Speechwriting, Project management, Profiles, Podcasting, Conference/meeting coverage

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