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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Updated at 5:30 p.m., March 31 with comment from Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis University doctors are using an experimental drug to...
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Updated at 5 p.m., March 31 with latest number of cases at Frontier Health and Rehabilitation When dozens of nursing home residents in a Seattle suburb...
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Updated at 2:52 p.m. with comments from Dr. Jeffrey Henderson Washington University researchers will soon begin testing a century-old technique that...
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Barbara Chappuis, the owner of Clarksville beauty shop Bee Naturals, found it impossible earlier this month to purchase the alcohol her company needs to...
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As states confirm more cases of the new coronavirus disease, local health officials are recommending that people who have tested positive and those who...
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Health policy researchers have strongly recommended that state governments update their quarantine policies to protect individual rights.
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Hospitals and doctors in the St. Louis area have been preparing for several weeks for a case of the new coronavirus disease to arrive in Missouri . That...
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As the number of COVID-19 cases climbs in the U.S., scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine are working on a vaccine to prevent the...
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CENTREVILLE — At least twice a day, Walter Byrd checks on the pumps on his yard. Like dozens of residents in the Metro East city of Centreville, Byrd...
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Students at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla are building a portable water filter that can help people who lack access to...