Email: corey.powell@disney.com
Corey Powell, who teaches advanced science writing in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, is executive editor of Discover magazine, where he oversees the magazine’s design and editorial content. Previously he held positions as a features editor at Discover, as the magazine’s news editor, and as the director of Discover.com. Before joining Discover he spent eight years on the Board of Editors at Scientific American, where he coordinated the magazine’s physics and astronomy coverage. He has also worked at Physics Today and at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he assisted in testing and fabrication of high-energy astrophysics experiments. His first book, God in the Equation, an exploration of the spiritual impulse in modern cosmology, was published in 2002 by the Free Press. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, World Art, and The Forward.
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