Science Communication Portfolio

Book

The Neuroscience of Yoga and Meditation

Singing Dragon Publishing, coming July 2023

science press releases (Selected):

How the Brain Encodes Social Rank and “Winning Mindset”

Second Place at the 2022 San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards

How Targeting Killer T Cells in the Lungs Could Lead to Immunity Against Respiratory Viruses

Second Place at the 2021 San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards

New study targets Achilles heel of pancreatic cancer, with promising results

Third Place at the 2019 San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards

Science features (selected):

Scientific publications

Fair, Althoff, and Garavan. 2018. “Structural Brain Correlates of Personality Traits and Sex Differences.” Published in ProQuest.

Fair, Mellon, Epel, Lin, Révész, Verhoeven, Penninx, Reus, Rosser, Hough, Mahan, Burke, Blackburn, and Wolkowitz. 2017. “Telomere Length is Inversely Correlated with Urinary Stress Hormone Levels in Healthy Controls but not in Un-medicated Depressed Individuals- Preliminary Findings.” Journal of Pychosomatic Research.

Schwartz, Hopkins, and Hopkins. 2016. “Group Prerelease Training Yields Positive Rehabilitation Outcomes Among Juvenile Mantled Howlers (Alouatta palliate).” International Journal of Primatology; pp 1-21. Collected data and mentioned in the acknowledgements section.

Fair and Keeley. 2011. “The Evolution of Emotion: Can Feeling be a Rational Decision Maker.” Senior thesis in Philosophy. Pomona and Pitzer Philosophy Departments, Claremont, CA.

Fair and McFarlane. 2010. “Invasive Small Mammal Species in the Ranomafana National Park, Centre ValBio Research Station, Ranomafana, Madagascar.” Senior thesis in Animal Ecology. Keck Science Center, Claremont, CA.

Podcast Episodes

Season 3

First Place at the 2021 San Diego Press Club Excellent in Journalism Awards

Episode 2: Tom Albright on eyewitness recognition
Episode 3: Nikki Lytle on why she said she’d never work on cancer
Episode 4: Gerald Pao on trying to make animals transparent
Episode 6: Dmitry Lyumkis on what three-dimensional images can reveal about protein assemblies

Season 2

First Place and Honorable Mention at the 2020 San Diego Press Club Excellent in Journalism Awards

Episode 1: Wolfgang Busch on plant roots and climate change
Episode 3: Molly Matty on gaining insights into human behavior from tiny worms
Episode 4: Joe Noel on his love of nature and whether elephant poop is good for tomatoes
Episode 5: Reuben Shaw on his continual drive to study the hardest-to-treat cancers
Episode 6: Uri Manor on how childhood hearing loss has impacted his research

Season 1

Episode 1: Eiman Azim on the neuroscience of movement
Episode 3: Emily Manoogian on biological clocks
Episode 5: Nicola Allen on astrocytes
Episode 7: Joanne Chory on harnessing the power of plants

Science Videos (selected):

Commercials

CNN International heads to Costa Rica

Brittany teamed up with CNN International to collaborate on a project involving the intersection of science and travel. As a science communicator, her aim isto convey high quality information to the public in a friendly and approachable manner. The production was estimated to have reached more than 421 million homes throughout the world and was the winner of the Best Production at The International Tourism Film Festival in 2017.

CNN Advertisement Features

Brittany has written a variety of advertisement features on topics such as the science of wellbeing, nature, the effects of caffeine on the brain, gastronomy and vitamin D synthesis. They can be viewed HERE.

CNN Commercials

Brittany also appeared on-screen for a series of commercials for the campaign. The full-length (1 minute) commercial can be viewed below. The 30 second commercial can be viewed HERE and the 15 second commercial can be viewed HERE.

Essential Costa Rica, My Choice Naturally