Ellen Ruppel Shell

Codirector of Science Journalism Program
Professor of Journalism

BA, University of Rochester

A writer with a special interest in public health and the politics of medicine, Professor Ruppel Shell is the author of A Child’s Place (Little, Brown, 1992) and The Hungry Gene. A correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, she contributes regularly to a number of national publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Discover Magazine, and Smithsonian. She has been a senior editor at several science publications, and a science editor for the PBS series Bodywatch and for the WNET series Innovation. Winner of several awards for her writing, Ruppel Shell was a Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.