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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Missouri health officials do not plan to publicly identify nursing homes that have residents or workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Dr...
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Updated at 4:30 p.m., May 1, with details about Missouri’s plan to identify the number of nursing homes that have coronavirus cases. In mid-April, Tim...
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Workers at two nursing homes in St. Louis are urging their facilities to take action to prevent them and their patients from being infected by the...
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It’s been two months since Karen Nickel last held her 2-year-old granddaughter. Nickel, of Maryland Heights, has lupus, psoriatic arthritis and...
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Sauget resident Mamie Cosey has complained for years about odors and air pollution from a Veolia incinerator located about a mile from her house. In...
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St. Charles officials plan to substantially raise two levees to reduce flood-related costs for residents and property owners. City engineers aim to...
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Mississippi River communities drained by the long flood of 2019 are facing more financial strain from the coronavirus pandemic. Kimmswick, Grafton and...
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Doctors at the Washington University School of Medicine will treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients with antimalarial drugs to see if they can fight the...
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At least 49 nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Missouri have residents or workers who tested positive for COVID-19, according to state...
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St. Louis-area advocates for housing equality demand that private banks and other lenders put a temporary stop to foreclosures during the COVID-19...