Melinda Moyer

Melinda Wenner Moyer

Adjunct Faculty | SHERP 2006

Melinda Wenner Moyer is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and a number of other national publications.

She was the recipient of the 2019 Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine. One of her pieces for Scientific American was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and another is featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020. Her work has also received first place awards in the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Reporting and the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Annual Writing Awards. She was a 2018 Alicia Patterson Fellow.

Her first book, How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, will be published in July 2021 by Putnam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

She received an MA in Science, Health & Environmental Reporting from NYU in 2006.

 

Published Articles & Essays

Scientific American
December 21st, 2020
You Can Get through This Dark Pandemic Winter Using Tips from Disaster Psychology
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
The Trace
July 8th, 2020
Early Research Links Coronavirus Gun Sales Surge to Increased Shootings
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
May 21st, 2019
Could a Single Live Vaccine Protect against a Multitude of Diseases?
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Slate Publication Logo
November 6th, 2017
Sexism Starts in Childhood. It can also be stopped there.
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
October 1st, 2017
More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Women’s Health
August 23rd, 2017
Steep obstacles to lifesaving skin care: A bleak reality for millions
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
March 1st, 2017
What Science Says about How to Get Preschool Right
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Aeon
January 16th, 2017
A bug for Alzheimer’s? A Bold Theory Places Infection at the Root of Alzheimer’s,
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
December 1st, 2016
How Drug-Resistant Bacteria Travel from the Farm to Your Table
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Self
May 11th, 2015
What’s the Real Truth About Soy?
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Slate Publication Logo
March 30th, 2014
Teaching Tolerance How White Parents Should Talk to Their Young Kids About Race.
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
January 15th, 2013
Is the Free-Radical Theory of Aging Dead?
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Babble
June 7th, 2012
Do Doctors Really Know Best?
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Slate Publication Logo
March 8th, 2012
Baby on Bed
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Slate Publication Logo
January 11th, 2012
The Truth About Epidurals
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Eating Well
September 1st, 2011
Going Clean
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
July 8th, 2011
It’s Time to End the War on Salt
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Glamour
April 27th, 2011
The New Toxic Threats to Women’s Health
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Scientific American
September 7th, 2010
It’s Not Dementia, It’s Your Heart Medication
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
Slate Publication Logo
March 25th, 2010
End the War on Fat
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty