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Author Jenny Chen

Jenny Chen

Jenny Chen

Science Editor

Jenny Chen is an award-winning science journalist and multimedia producer. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Reader’s Digest, Shape, Vice, and many more. In 2014 she co-produced a radio story on higher level math with a grant from PRX that was aired on NPR members stations across the country. That same year she received a grant from the D.C. Humanities Council to produce a radio documentary series on growing up mixed race in Washington, D.C. Jenny has also received numerous fellowships and awards to cover health, aging, minority issues, and climate change. She has spoken about journalism and the role of ethnic media at the Smithsonian Folklife festival. In another life, she has also had a play produced at Arena Stage and the Kennedy Center. Why I love working for Hippo: Sharing knowledge to make the world just a little bigger. My favorite academic work: The Search For Night - one of the most poetic pieces of science writing I've read recently. In another life, I’d be a: A dancer. Aside from the mighty hippo, my favorite animal is the: Jaguar - rawr.

Adolescence: It’s Even More Complicated Than You Thought

Jenny Chen and Laurence Steinberg
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
In the past, we’ve thought of adolescence as one block of time between 13 and 18-years-old when kids participate in risky and angsty behavior. New research over the last decade has shown us that adolescence...

Are Our Attempts to Reduce Risks Of Disease Helping or Harming?

Jenny Chen and Robert A. Aronowitz
Science & Medicine
As a physician in the 1990s, Robert A. Aronowitz was taught to put women who were about to go through menopause on hormone replacement therapy. They were being sold as risk-reducing medicines—they were...
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