Kerry Grens

kgrens@whyy.org

Kerry Grens is the senior health and science reporter at WHYY. Her stories span the beat, from the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals in goats to the role of fire in the New Jersey pine barrens to the culling of community hospitals. Kerry has been reporting for WHYY since February, 2008. She moved to Philadelphia in 2006, when she joined The Scientist as a staff writer. For more than a year the magazine sent Kerry on reporting trips around the country to write about discoveries in the life sciences.

Her return to radio was a return to her first love. Kerry started in journalism through a AAAS science writing fellowship at KUNC, an NPR affiliate in Greeley, Colorado. Following that she spent two years as New Hampshire Public Radio's health and science reporter. Kerry has a masters degree in biological sciences from Stanford University, where she did research in neuroscience, and a bachelors in biology from Loyola University Chicago. Kerry's stories appear on WHYY-FM during Morning Edition and All Things Considered and on WHYY-TV during First.

Recent stories by Kerry Grens:

• Online firm aims to gather shareholders' votes, November 11th, 2010
• Biotech companies get $1 billion in grants, November 7th, 2010
• Air quality impacts of natural gas, November 2nd, 2010
• Driving the homeless people to the polls, November 2nd, 2010
• Philadelphia's unique polling sites, November 1st, 2010
• Phone app shuts down texting in cars, November 1st, 2010
• New community dental clinic in north Philly, October 25th, 2010
• New Jersey has most hand transplant recipients, October 22nd, 2010
• 280,000 medical records on misplaced flash drive, October 22nd, 2010
• States get millions for oil spill, October 15th, 2010
• Advocates say New Jersey’s marijuana rules too strict, October 14th, 2010
• Medical records swap launches in Camden, October 11th, 2010
• Insurers drop kid-only benefit plans, October 8th, 2010
• Stimulus money for science, October 8th, 2010
• Unusual punishment for medical device crime, October 6th, 2010
• Unauthorized testing leads to unusual consequences, October 5th, 2010
• Flu season about to begin, October 1st, 2010
• Flooding aftermath: mold, October 1st, 2010
• The Shale Game Part 4: Social services, September 29th, 2010
• History of the shale, September 29th, 2010
• Today is Philadelphia Chromosome Day, September 28th, 2010
• Stimulus funds increase farmers market food stamps, September 28th, 2010
• The Shale Game Part 2: Water, September 28th, 2010
• Haunted house at mental hospital stirs debate, September 24th, 2010
• Family planning services cut back, September 24th, 2010
• Millions of restaurant workers uninsured, September 21st, 2010
• New health insurance rules kick in this week, September 21st, 2010
• New Jersey asks for dredge material toxin tests, September 13th, 2010
• New job finder for life sciences workers, September 13th, 2010
• New ethics guidelines for health incentives, September 9th, 2010