MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
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Raleigh McElvery

GPSW 2017

Raleigh McElvery

Biology, chemical engineering, neuroscience


Raleigh McElvery is the Scientific Communications Editor at the National Cancer Institute’s Neuro-Oncology Branch. Previously, she was a science writer and multimedia producer for the MIT Department of Biology. She is also a freelance science journalist and has written for Science, Nature, Discover Magazine, Quanta Magazine, Chemical & Engineering News, MIT Technology Review, NOVA Next, and more.

Thesis: Trial and Error : Medical Marijuana, the Absence of Evidence, and the Allure of Anecdote

Recent Publications Include: