About Michelle

Michelle Sipics is a writer and editor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A 2006 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Graduate Program in Science Writing, she also holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Drexel University. She is a member of NASW, AHCJ, and the Museum Council of Philadelphia.

Michelle currently works as a content developer for various initiatives at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. From 2006 through 2009 she was a contributing editor at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Michelle also does freelance writing and editing for numerous publications and clients, from stressed-out grad students looking for an editor’s eye on their PhD thesis to the Boston Globe. In the summer of 2008, she began guest-posting at Tom Levenson’s Inverse Square, a blog devoted to issues of science and society.

As a journalist, Michelle is particularly interested in covering infectious diseases, mental health research and issues, and almost anything that involves mathematics being used in spiffy or unexpected ways. She also enjoys using the word spiffy whenever possible, despite the urban dictionary noting that it is “used in 21st-century America by strange, offbeat teens,” and that she is not, by definition, a teen (although “strange” or “offbeat” might apply).

Aside from work, Michelle enjoys exploring Sherlockiana, bowling, woodworking, watching baseball, and complaining about computers despite loving and using them daily. She’s still working on building up a tolerance for riding her bike for distances her body was not intended to travel without the use of an internal combustion engine--preferably one made by Honda. Oh yeah--she loves Hondas to a degree that sometimes frightens people. You should buy a Honda. It would make her happy.