
Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick is a science journalist, editor, and multimedia producer. He is the former digital managing editor of American Scientist (2015-2023). He is a Fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard ('21) and of the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Program ('03). He teaches science journalism, reporting on climate change, and podcasting for Harvard's Division of Continuing Education and occasionally directs capstone projects of masters in journalism students. He left American Scientist to become the inaugural editor-in-chief of the Global Virus Network.
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Article
- First Person: Ariana Sutton-Grier
- A More Universal Language
- First Person: Peter Jay Hotez
- Channeling Lasers
- First Person: Ben Santer
- Brain Support
- First Person: Esther Takeuchi
- The Hardest Tissue
- First Person: David Flannigan
- Microsized Architecture
- First Person: Tim Davis
- Seeing the "Sixth Sense"
- Light Conversions
- Drains on the Heart
- First Person: Anna Marie Skalka
- Heart Waves
- Nerves of an Escape Artist
- Parker, Meet Parker
- Seeing the Heart's Power
- An Unusual Shimmer
- A Slow Split
- Curbing Immune Cells’ Appetite
- Nanoparticle Visions
- Now In Color
- Hungry Little Beasts
- Tugging at Hearts
- A Computed Flame
- A Fish's Armor
Blog
- Like an Afterburner
- Stewardship of Earth
- Detecting Gerrymandering
- Using Pop Culture to Teach Science
- Testing Well Water for Contamination
- Air Quality Trade-Offs
- Self-Education in Science Communication
- Perinatal Depression and Precision Psychiatry
- Beyond Genetics
- Eliminating Sex Bias in Biomedical and Clinical Research
- A Big Cover for "Big Data Takes On The Universe"
- Gendered Communication
- Gutsy Engineering
- Dirty Rainbows
- Creating a Soundtrack for a Scientific Talk
- The Gut-Brain Connection
- Progress Against Viruses in Animal Reservoirs
- A Tour of the Geology of Our Solar System
- Understanding the CRISPR Craze
- Computing the Moment of Totality
- Computational Propaganda
- New Website: Better, Faster, Stronger...
- Lactose Intolerance and the Gut's Microbiome
- Defending Science and Scientific Integrity in the Age of Trump
- Harder-Than-Diamond Carbon
- Seeing Biology's Tiniest in Color
- STEM Books for Older Children 2016
- Cancer Chemotherapy During Pregnancy
- Having Faith in Science, Equivocally
- Blue Whirl: A New Form of Combustion
- Testing the Toxicity of Black Cohosh
- Using Computing to Advance Toxicology
- Evolution of Sleep and Sleep Disorders
- A Lone Gunman? Using Statistics in Forensics
- Cyber-Enabled Bionic Organisms