Nell Greenfieldboyce () is an American radio

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. She is a science and technology reporter for

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(NPR) and lives in

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Education and career

Greenfieldboyce attended the Warren public schools and Watchung Hills Regional High School. She took part in summer schools run by the

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. Graduating from high school one year early, she subsequently earned a

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in social sciences (history of science with writing) and a

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in science writing from Johns Hopkins. She spent only three years as an undergraduate, while in her fourth year she received a journalism scholarship to continue on for a masters. As an undergraduate she interned at

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and the Johns Hopkins University Medical School Public Relations Office, read copy for the student radio station, and was selected for

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. For her master's project, she traveled to Boston to interview Dr. Judah Folkman. Beginning in 1995, for a decade she wrote on science and technology in print media: ''Clinical Laboratory News'', ''

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'', and '' U.S. News & World Report''. She also taught at her alma mater. She received the 1998 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists.

References

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