Kevin Fryling

A writer, reporter, editor and communications specialist, I’ve been involved in news and communications ever since I was elected copy editor of my college newspaper at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where I also served as an enthusiastic contributor to the arts section. I then cut my teeth as a reporter for a small newspaper in Western New York State, writing about local government, school board meetings and rural issues.

After a year, I returned to the world of higher education to earn a master's in English from the University at Buffalo (UB), focusing on the works of Victorian novelists such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. I also went on to spend four years as a full-time staff writer for the UB Office of University Communications, a job I first landed as a graduate assistant. There I wrote for an internal newspaper and several alumni magazines on topics ranging from breakthroughs in nanomedicine to geographic field research in Antarctica to modernist literature—and interviewed everyone from a research scientist who regularly went spelunking into the caverns of South America in search of rare bat species to an experimental filmmaker and musical composer whose wedding guests included the artist Andy Warhol. In addition, I contributed to many in-house publications related to the university's schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and nursing, and discovered a love for writing about science and medicine.

As a communications specialist for the Indiana University School of Medicine, I serve as the editor of Scope, the internal communications newsletter for the Indiana University School of Medicine; the coordinator of MedTV, the school’s internal video messaging system; and a contributor to Vital Signs, an online magazine featuring university physicians, students and patients. I’m also the communications specialist for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), helping spread the word about CTSI's innovative efforts to bring research out of the laboratory and into the local health care system by fostering collaboration between investigators at Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame.

In my free time, I serve as a freelance contributor to several local magazines in Bloomington and my home region of Buffalo, NY, and as a regular volunteer at WFIU.

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