Biomedical Fellows

James Dinneen聽is a freelance science and environmental journalist from Colorado, based in New York City. His work has appeared in聽National Geographic,听Undark Magazine,听Popular Science,听bioGraphic,听OneZero, and聽KCRW鈥檚 Here Be Monsters, among others. He once recorded a podcast about bathymetry on a rowboat in Buzzards Bay and is looking forward to being back on the Cape learning to pipette.

Dan Drollette Jr.聽is deputy editor of the聽Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He is a science writer/editor and foreign correspondent who has filed stories from every continent except Antarctica. His stories have appeared in聽Scientific American,听International Wildlife,听MIT鈥檚 Technology Review,听Natural History,听Cosmos,听Science,听New Scientist, and the聽BBC Online, among others. He was a TEDx speaker to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and held a Fulbright Postgraduate Traveling Fellowship to Australia鈥攚here he lived for a total of four years. For three years, he edited CERN鈥檚 on-line weekly magazine about high-energy subparticle physics, in Geneva, Switzerland, where his office was 100 yards from the injection point of the Large Hadron Collider.

Molly Enking聽is an Italy-based writer and multimedia journalist who currently works as a Weekend Digital Editor/Producer at PBS NewsHour Weekend. Originally from Maine, she worked in New York City for seven years, where she got her master鈥檚 in journalism at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY. She has written about science, the environment and politics for聽The Daily Beast,听Grist,听Wired,听RollingStone聽and other publications.

Alexa Kurzius聽is a managing editor at Newsela, an educational website serving two-thirds of U.S. public schools. She oversees a team that creates and curates science articles and video content. Previously, she was a science journalist and video producer at Scholastic. She has written for聽The Week Jr.,听Wired听补苍诲听The New York Times Upfront, among others, and published three kids鈥 science chapter books. She has a master鈥檚 degree in science journalism from New York University.

Cathy Shufro聽is a freelance reporter who writes for university magazines. She has reported on public health in marginalized communities on several continents鈥攊ncluding along the Thailand-Burma border as a 2012 fellow with the International Reporting Project. Other topics have ranged from how聽C. elegans聽senses light to a profile of聽惭辞辞苍濒颈驳丑迟听screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney. Cathy teaches writing at Yale College and at the summertime School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology. She lives in Connecticut.

Environmental Fellows

Kyle Bagenstose聽is an environmental and investigative reporter for聽USA Today, where he writes about climate change, flooding, drinking water contamination and other issues. Previously, he spent four years covering the environmental beat in the Delaware Valley for a trio of community newspapers outside Philadelphia.聽 His years-long investigation of major drinking water contamination near a pair of military bases there won a pair of national awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists. He resides in Philadelphia.

Fred Bever聽is a general assignment reporter at Maine Public, the state鈥檚 public radio and television broadcaster, based in Portland. Bever grew up in New York City, graduated from Columbia University, and got his start in journalism with Vermont newspapers. Later, he was chief political correspondent for Maine Public Radio and co-host of Maine Public Television鈥檚 MaineWatch. He then served as news director for what is now New England Public Radio, in western Mass., and subsequently freelanced for WBUR Boston and New Hampshire Public Radio. While Bever has worked 鈥渆very beat there is,鈥 he has always gravitated to science and environment stories. His current focus is on energy issues, coastal communities, and Gulf of Maine ecosystems.

Katy Daigle聽is the Climate Change Editor for Reuters, where she oversees global environment coverage. She previously worked as deputy news editor at聽Science News, and as an international correspondent and editor for the Associated Press. For more than seven years, Katy served as AP鈥檚 South Asia Correspondent and environment writer based in New Delhi. She has also worked in New York, London, Moscow and the Caribbean. Katy studied journalism and history at Northwestern University, and international conflict at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism to study climate change and environmental economics in 2012-13 at the University of Colorado鈥揃oulder. Katy also served on the board of directors at the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2018-20.

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra聽is a freelance science journalist based in聽Bogot谩, Colombia. She has worked for the two most important newspapers in the country:聽El Tiempo听补苍诲听El Espectador. She writes about environment, human rights, indigenous peoples and the relationship between armed conflict and nature.聽She is also a professor of journalism and climate change.

Andres Pruna聽is a Los Angeles-based producer for primetime newscasts including Univision, NBC and ABC. Growing up, Andres travelled with his father, a wildlife filmmaker, all over Argentina, Venezuela and the Patagonia region, and learned about filming in the wild. After obtaining a B.A. in filmmaking in Santa Barbara, Calif., he now specializes in news on the environment, science and climate change, striving to explain complex science in an approachable, interesting way. Over the years Andres鈥 work has been recognized with multiple regional Emmys, Edward R. Murrows and other awards. Locations for filming include the Amazon jungle, Latin America, underwater marine life shoots, science labs and archeological digs.