Steve Scherer PORTFOLIO

Video Projects

My approach to video storytelling is to let the subjects provide the narrative.

This video highlights two chemistry graduate students who developed an instrument from napkin drawing to fully functioning scientific tool.

This video was produced to complement a technical press release. Sometimes a video is worth a thousand words.

When COVID shut down all campus visitation, my department needed an immediate online tour for prospective students. This was quickly produced with no budget. Script, narration, video, and editing all by me. (Drone footage by Purdue.)

Writing Samples

Science Writing

• A profile of Purdue's #1 Analytical Chemistry program that I wrote for Purdue Today
• I have written many science stories like this. (Photography by me, too.)

Alumni Features

• A profile of alum who developed Goodyear Aquatred tire.
• Chemistry alum retires after 40-year teaching career.

Student Feature

• This story is about one of Chemistry's grad students who served in the Middle East. It motivated Purdue Marketing to produced this video a few years later.

Print Layout, Writing, and Photography

Here is a print newsletter sent to Chemistry alumni. (It's all electronic now.) All writing, including Department Head letter, by me.

Mass Email, Writing, and Photography

Here is Chemistry's electronic newsletter that is emailed quarterly to alumni.

Academic Writing

As a Purdue graduate student, I was paid to write an entry for an encyclopedia that related to my cited thesis.

Photography