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Martha Spall

Marketing and Communications Writer Email: [email protected] Phone: 734/647-0999
Office: School of Information/3542 Leinweber Comp Sci & Info Bd Staff Unit: Marketing and Communications LinkedIn News About Martha Spall

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she/her/hers

Education

Dual BA in English literature and professional writing, concentration in editing and publishing

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"Fave stories of 2025" written across a blue and a yellow heart, overlaid on a portrait of Sophia Brueckner standing in the large doorway of a red metal barn with studio equipment behind her
Our favorite UMSI stories and visuals of 2025

As the year comes to a close, we asked the Marketing & Communications team to pick their favorite story, photo or video published in 2025 and explain what it means to them. 

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Stories by Martha Spall

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Side-by-side images: Right image shows Gabriela Lagraba holding an award certificate and a giant check reading "1st Place Winner" made out to InStride for $2,000; left image shows Simranjeet Singh standing in front of a backdrop with repeated MIT Hacking Medicine logos.
At MIT Hacking Medicine GrandHack, UMSI students show what health informatics can do

MIT Hacking Medicine GrandHack brings together the brightest minds in healthcare innovation. Two Master of Health Informatics students showed they belong in that room.

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Lydia Schrandt smiling as she takes a selfie while running a race in a city amid other runners wearing race bibs. Onlookers cheer racers on from the sidelines.
UMSI alumna Lydia Schrandt wasn't looking for data science. Data science found her.

Lydia Schrandt (MADS '24) was a travel writer who had never written a line of code. Then a pandemic pivot led her to Coursera — and to UMSI. Now she leads a data-driven marketing team and is running the Boston Marathon for a cause close to her heart.

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