Leah Wood is the new technical editor for graduate education. Editing services offered by graduate education are free to S&T students and include editing of journal articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Documents are reviewed for English usage, grammar and mechanics, documentation, sentence structure, word choice, clarity, and organization. Wood will also offer writing workshops and presentations to students beginning in the spring semester.

Prior to joining S&T, Wood was a graduate research and teaching assistant at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in geology, both from Ball State University. Wood published an original research article in Frontiers in Earth Science in 2020 and has contributed to several others as a coauthor. She has served as a peer reviewer for GeoHealth, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, and she has been an invited speaker at Earth Science seminars, science teaching workshops and town hall-style events. Wood lives in Rolla with her husband and two cats. She enjoys hiking, reading and studying history.

Learn more about graduate education’s technical editing services at grad.mst.edu/currentstudents/editing/.