MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
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Rachel Becker

GPSW 2015

Rachel Becker

Environmental sciences, energy, health


Rachel Becker is an environment reporter at CalMatters, where she covers California’s complex water challenges and water policy issues. She is a former science reporter for The Verge. Her bylines have appeared in NOVA Next, National Geographic News, Smithsonian, Slate, Nature, Nature Medicine, bioGraphic, and Hakai Magazine.

Thesis: You Smell : The Mysterious Science of Scent

Recent Publications Include: