Eli Chen
Eli Chen is the science and environment reporter at St. Louis Public Radio. She comes to St. Louis after covering the eroding Delaware coast, bat-friendly wind turbine technology, mouse love songs and various science stories for Delaware Public Media/WDDE-FM. Before that, she corralled robots and citizen scientists for the World Science Festival in New York City and spent a brief stint booking guests for Science Friday’s live events in 2013. Eli grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where a mixture of teen angst, a love for Ray Bradbury novels and the growing awareness about climate change propelled her to become the science storyteller she is today. When not working, Eli enjoys a solid bike ride, collects classic disco, watches standup comedy and is often found cuddling other people’s dogs. She has a bachelor’s in environmental sustainability and creative writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has a master’s degree in journalism, with a focus on science reporting, from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
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Earlie Fuse’s home in Centreville, Illinois, flooded in 1993. Since then, Fuse and his neighbors have experienced worse floods. Some found that the...
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An advisory group Gov. Mike Parson appointed during the record-breaking 2019 floods has released a report that calls for strengthening levees and other...
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Updated at 10:20 p.m. June 4 with the conclusion of the demonstrations Protesters packed a Target parking lot and marched through Brentwood and Richmond...
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Guardians of nursing home residents in Missouri will soon be allowed to install cameras in facilities to monitor how workers provide care to their loved...
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Emergency workers in St. Louis responded to an increased number of drug overdoses this spring, according to city health data. St. Louis EMS responders...
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A few weeks ago, St. Louis County resident Gary Shank decided to move his 94-year-old father out of Delmar Gardens nursing home in Chesterfield. Delmar...
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Environmental organizations in Missouri and Illinois have filed a federal lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers, alleging that dikes and other...
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When the coronavirus began spreading in Missouri, Jasmine Whitfield remembers how scared her mother was. Cynthia Whitfield, 58, was a certified...
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Every day that Michael Howard reports to work at Grand Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation in north St. Louis, he’s terrified that he will catch the...
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Updated May 4 with more answers to audience questions Coronavirus has disrupted many aspects of everyday life. Sporting events are postponed, businesses...