Dr. Raven Baxter reports from the launch of the Planetary Health Check 2026 at Climate Week NYC, where she interviewed climate scientist Johan Rockström and former Unilever chief executive Paul Polman.
Dr. Raven Baxter reports from the 81st UN General Assembly in New York, from the SDG Media Zone at UN Headquarters and the Unstoppable Africa business forum.
Dr. Raven Baxter launched The Science of Life, her newsletter on Substack, on Sept. 2, 2026, with a post answering thousands of comments on a crocodile's virgin birth.
Scientific American quoted Dr. Raven Baxter in an August 8, 2026 story on where artificial intelligence belongs in science communication, after fans pushed back on Hank Green's use of ChatGPT.
Dr. Raven Baxter reports from BiotechTV's first U.S. Science Summit in Kendall Square, where about 20 science creators joined biotech leaders on July 21, 2026.
In a Comment for Nature Microbiology's June 2026 focus issue on science communication, Dr. Raven Baxter argues that the information ecosystem around science is out of balance and can recover.
Dr. Raven Baxter reports from Kennedy Space Center, where NASA invited digital creators on Jan. 17, 2026, to watch the Artemis II rocket roll out to its launch pad.
Dr. Raven Baxter joined the PBS News special Tipping Point on Dec. 10, 2025, and told viewers that scientists must be trained to engage the public.
Mount Sinai released the country's first clinical manual for infection-associated chronic illnesses on Aug. 13, 2025, co-written by Dr. Raven Baxter, Director of Science Communication at its Cohen Center.
The AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion profiled Dr. Raven Baxter on June 18, 2025, on misinformation, faith and what science communication can learn from churches.
A 2022 review by Penn State anthropologists Grace Bowland and Laura Weyrich proposes four ways microbes in the mouth may affect the brain.
Dr. Raven Baxter explained the science behind Consumer Reports' braiding hair test results at its Black Hair Matters virtual public forum on Feb. 27, 2025.
Dr. Raven Baxter wrote the curriculum and lesson content for Science of Immunity, a free middle school course on vaccines from RTI International and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA.
Dr. Raven Baxter wrote the afterword for STEM for All, Leena Bakshi McLean's guide to culturally responsive STEM teaching, which became a national bestseller in October 2024.
Dr. Raven Baxter is among the leaders credited in Health 2035, a forecast from HSBC Innovation Banking and The Linus Group released at HLTH USA 2024 in Las Vegas.
Dr. Raven Baxter premiered her podcast, The Science of Life with Dr. Raven Baxter®, on April 16, 2024, with evolutionary biologist Anastasia Shavrova, Ph.D., on sexual conflict in animals.
Dr. Raven Baxter completed The Climate Reality Project's 55th Leadership Corps training, the first held in New York City, and became a Climate Reality Leader.
Science magazine quoted Dr. Raven Baxter on March 19, 2024, in a story on how a possible U.S. TikTok ban could affect science communicators.
Dr. Raven Baxter wrote the February entry, The joy of science, for A Year of Black Joy, an illustrated almanac of 52 Black voices that Magic Cat Publishing released in the United States on Oct. 10, 2023.
Dr. Raven Baxter premiered Nerdy Jobs, her YouTube series on unusual science careers, on May 9, 2023, with an episode on protein crystallization in Buffalo.
Dr. Raven Baxter attended the Ninth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Los Angeles on April 15, 2023, the first staged ceremony since 2019.
Dr. Raven Baxter reports from the White House complex, where Vice President Kamala Harris awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Demo-2 astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
Dr. Raven Baxter toured Kennedy Space Center on April 21, 2022, as one of the creators NASA invited to its NASA Social for the SpaceX Crew-4 mission.
The University at Buffalo conferred a Ph.D. on Dr. Raven Baxter on Feb. 1, 2022, for a dissertation that proposed a new framework for culturally responsive science communication.
Raven Baxter explained what antibodies are and how they vary in an Oct. 14, 2021, episode of NOVA's Out of Our Elements on COVID-19 vaccine immunity.
Raven Baxter was the special guest for the final main-stage session of the NASA TechRise Student Challenge Virtual Field Trip, where Future Engineers unveiled a prototype built from her maraca-in-microgravity experiment idea.
The Washington Post's Science section published a Q&A with Raven Baxter on Sept. 24, 2021, covering trust in science, role models and science on social media.
Raven Baxter appeared as the on-camera biologist in two 2021 episodes of Science Channel's Strange Evidence, ruling out a human body on a Chinese beach and naming a pulsing blob in Thailand as a sea cucumber.
Raven Baxter joined Alie Ward on the Ologies podcast on Feb. 16, 2021, to explain molecular biology and argue that science communication must be accurate first.
In April 2018, Raven Baxter launched Raven the Science Maven, a weekly science education web series she created, wrote and hosted from Buffalo, N.Y.
SUNY Buffalo State awarded Raven Baxter a Master of Arts in biological sciences on Aug. 12, 2017, for a thesis on the protein-folding chaperone GRP170 in the worm C. elegans.
Raven Baxter taught human biology and microbiology at SUNY Erie Community College, pairing every exam with a creative assignment, and worked as a substitute teacher in Buffalo Public Schools.
Raven Baxter worked as a Research Scientist I in drug discovery at Albany Molecular Research's Buffalo center from May 2016 to August 2017, screening drug compounds against cancer and brain disease.
