North Country Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to the Great Outdoors
Copyright 1996 Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City This award-winning collection of Anne Brataas' natural history newspaper columns was honored with the 1996 Minnesota Book Awards Merit Citation. It offers some 70 short essays on Minnesota's wild heritage, arranged by seasons and informed by Anne's skills as a historian of science and her graduate degrees in zoology and environmental science.

Minnesota Foundation Quarterly, newsletter
Copyright 2000 The Minnesota Foundation To make an enduring impact, corporate and nonprofit organizations need strong and strategic communication vehicles. The Story Laboratory excels in conceptualizing, designing, writing and editing targeted newsletters, brochures and Web pages that powerfully deliver core messages to target audiences.

University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, a medical center website
Copyright 2006-2008 Regents of the University of Minnesota Whether interviewing surgeons, researchers or families and patients, The Story Laboratory writers are adept at managing varying levels of complexity and synthesizing it into smooth, effective narrative that readers find compelling and helpful. We show the human side, the scientific essence, and the institutional prowess.

Partners in Discovery, a research magazine
Copyright 2003 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Scientists need to translate laboratory discoveries into cures and preventions, and into understanding that generates support for public science funding. Translational science writing is a Story Laboratory specialty. To do it right and well requires advanced degrees, mastery of narrative and a passion for clarity--all defining traits of a Story Lab project.

Mayo Clinic Clinical Update, physicians' newsletter
Copyright 2007 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research We help busy physicians communicate their best-practices knowledge quickly and easily by consistently following the literature and conducting focused, efficient, data-dense interviews. We then draft stories for physicians in a tone appropriate for professional peer-to-peer medical publications. We write and illustrate; they edit. Done.

Mayo Medical School, website and print brochure
Copyright 2007 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Telling students' stories and highlighting visionary curriculum requires knowledge of medical education, and a deft command of multiple writing styles. The Story Laboratory provides both. The result: Vital institutional elements come alive in multiple media, from the energetic optimism of students, to the depth of faculty teaching commitment.

Dark Times Tribune, a 4th grade history magazine
Copyright 2006 Anne Brataas Fourth graders at the public Capitol Hill Magnet School in St. Paul, Minn., moved into the Middle Ages for several weeks with the help of The Story Laboratory 's classroom writing mentors. They named their magazine, researched topics, wrote stories and drew illustrations, helped design pages. Their reaction to the printed results: Huzzah, dude!

The Many Me's of Mory McMammal, a children's science storybook
Copyright 2008 Anne Brataas Mory McMammal feels deep kinship with all animals, vertebrates and invertebrates alike. He wonders what it is that makes him his essential self. Richly illustrated with watercolors, this book was written by The Story Laboratory's founder, Anne Brataas, as curriculum for a course in evolution for children in grades 1 through 4.

Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth, curricula creation
Copyright 2002-2008 Anne Brataas We design and teach engaging, active, inquiry-based science curricula that support state and national educational standards. Our expertise includes many subfields in geology, zoology, environmental science, history of medicine, science and technology, medicine and health—from the biology of addiction to limnology (the study of lakes).

Scholarly writing and institutional histories
Copyright 2006-2008 Anne Brataas Bringing rich archival texts and images to modern readers adds perspective, deepens insight and commands attention. Historian of medicine, science and technology Anne Brataas revives topics that speak volumes to us today. This service adds distinction to clients’ journal pieces, editorials, policy papers and institutional legacies.

Nature writing • Corporate communications • Patient-centered medical stories for print and web • Biomedical research translations for general readership • Physicians' newsletters and websites • Medical school websites • Children's history & science publications • Science picture books • Science curriculum • Scholarly writing in history of science