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Ellen Ruppel Shell

Professor of Journalism
Co-director, Science & Medical Journalism Program

AB, University of Rochester.

Professor Ruppel Shell is the author most recently of "The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin," a widely praised narrative investigation of the science and politics of the world obesity pandemic published in six languages on four continents. She is also author of “A Child’s Place” (Little, Brown) and is currently working on her third book, “Cheap” (Penguin). A veteran science and medical journalist, she is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Smithsonian, Time, Discover, Seed, and dozens of other national publications. She lectures and consults frequently on issues in science and the media both in the United States and abroad. She has served as a senior editor on science publications, and a science editor for public television, and was a Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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