Rae Ellen Bichell
Rae Ellen Bichell is a reporter for NPR's Science Desk. She first came to NPR in 2013 as a Kroc fellow and has since reported Web and radio stories on biomedical research, global health, and basic science. She won a 2016 Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award from the Foundation for Biomedical Research. After graduating from Yale University, she spent two years in Helsinki, Finland, as a freelance reporter and Fulbright grantee.
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Everyone knows that living in the Rockies can get expensive. Headwaters Economics wanted to know why. The non-profit published new research this week...
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Communities across the globe are trying to understand what percent of their population has been exposed to COVID-19 by searching random samples of...
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This week the governors of Colorado and Nevada joined West Coast states in something called the Western States Pact. Its stated aim is to bring together...
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Testing is considered a major requirement on the path back to normal, and as the president has made clear, it's largely up to the states to find the way...
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There was the hiker who broke his leg, then refused to put on a mask before the alpine rescue team helped him down the mountain. There were the...
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As the nation continues to lag behind on testing for the new coronavirus, Utah and New Mexico rank among the states that have administered the most...
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Billy Barr has lived alone in a cabin in a Colorado mountain ghost town for almost 50 years. He offers advice on how to find and maintain happiness in isolation.
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“The snow’s going sideways, it’s swirling,” said Billy Barr, from the abandoned silver mine he lives in almost 10,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains. We...
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As the graph below shows, the number of COVID-19 cases reported by public health agencies in the Mountain West is climbing. But what do those numbers...
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Scores of counties across the U.S. have no local newspaper, and some that do say they're not being well-served by them. Longmont, Colo., is considering one possible solution: newsrooms in libraries.