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Jessica Ruvinsky

{alt_text} Jessica Ruvinsky is a science writer based in Santa Monica, California. She was an editor at Discover magazine in New York and has contributed to The Economist, Science, and U.S. News & World Report. She has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Stanford and a bachelor's degree from Yale.

 

Global Diseases, Local Needs | 3 | Nov. 16, 2011

 

The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.

Nonprofits Aren’t More Commercial | Aug. 16, 2011

 

A new study finds that nonprofits are not becoming more commercialized.

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