Cori Vanchieri joined Science News in August 2014 as features editor. Before that she was story editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s magazine, the HHMI Bulletin. She has more than 25 years of experience as a writer, editor and project manager within the health and science field. She helped launch news sections at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Annals of Internal Medicine and was senior medical editor at Cleveland Clinic Magazine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Cornell University and a master’s in journalism from Stanford University.