Rae Ellen Bichell
Rae Ellen Bichell is a reporter for NPR's Science Desk. She first came to NPR in 2013 as a Kroc fellow and has since reported Web and radio stories on biomedical research, global health, and basic science. She won a 2016 Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award from the Foundation for Biomedical Research. After graduating from Yale University, she spent two years in Helsinki, Finland, as a freelance reporter and Fulbright grantee.
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This story was powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. With protesters taking to the streets nationwide to demand justice for George...
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Researchers have released a new guide for parents about how to keep their kids from being recruited by extremists online.
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Dearfield, Colorado, is one of the last standing towns started by Black homesteaders in the Great Plains. Now, property in the ghost town has changed...
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This post was updated June 29, 2020 to include comments from Alexis Kalergis. A Colorado team says their work on a COVID-19 vaccine is progressing....
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Protests against racism and police brutality continue in Colorado, but there are many faces and voices that are missing. Here, four Colorado women who...
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According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the nation has yet to exit the first wave of this...
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Cities and counties across the country are declaring that racism is a public health crisis, including at least one city in the Mountain West.
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At a hearing last weekend about a Colorado bill on vaccination, Dr. Reginald Washington had originally planned to make several urgent points in support of the bill.
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Weekend protests drew crowds across the country including in the Mountain West, from hundreds in Boise and Reno to thousands in Denver. Some city...
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Researchers in Utah are in the process of testing about 10,000 people for COVID-19 and antibodies against the virus that causes it. “People have talked...