Megan Scudellari

A recent transplant to Durham, North Carolina, Megan studied science and writing in Boston for the last six years. In September 2008, she received an M.S. from the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she reported on asteroid-hunting, language scuffles, and the strangeness of light. After completing an internship at The Scientist in Philadelphia, PA, she became a regular freelancer for the magazine, including feature articles, profiles, and bio-business reports.

Before MIT, Megan worked as an educator at the Museum of Science in Boston. As part of a year-long fellowship, she wrote and performed presentations on physics, biology and chemistry and composed a play that was performed daily as part of the Science on Stage program. She also had a sixth sense for knowing when a kid was about to lick the escalator handrail.

Originally from Upstate New York, Megan has a Bachelor's degree from Boston College in biology and theater (yes, she loves Michael Frayn's Copenhagen). An avid traveler, she spent a summer at the Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education in Phalaborwa, South Africa, caring for orphaned baboon infants.

Best of all, she is recently married to her college sweetheart, Ryan Scudellari, who is pursuing his PhD in computer science at Duke University and handily designed this website. They recently adopted a lovely little mutt, Dizzy, who has a fondness for the taste of squirrel, and a feline named Scrappy, a twelve-pound kitten going on full-grown lion.