Trudy E. Bell

WRITER AND EDITOR

Journalist Trudy E. Bell has written about the physical sciences, technology, management, and society since 1970. She has been an editor for Scientific American magazine (1971-78), founding senior editor for Omni magazine (1978-79), a senior editor for IEEE Spectrum magazine (1983-97), and the communications specialist for the North American Operational Effectiveness Practice of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. (1997-2000). The holder of a master's degree in the history of science (New York University, 1978), she has co-authored or edited two books and written some 250 articles on science and technology--15 of which have won top journalism awards.

Over the past three decades, she has also written on contract for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (including the IEEE's millennium book Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision the Next Century). She has taught scientific and technical writing both at the graduate level (Polytechnic University of Brooklyn's Graduate Program in Specialized Journalism, 1980-91) and the undergraduate level (New School for Social Research, New York City, 1978-80), and has served as a technical writing consultant to several universities and corporations.

Meanwhile, she has enjoyed a keen interest in science and adventure travel, the history of exploration, and bicycle touring. She is a certified bicycle mechanic (East Coast Bicycle Academy, 1989) and AYH-trained bicycle tour guide. Since 1970, more than 60 articles and six books of hers have been published on bicycling and other travel--including the first book ever written about family cycling: Bicycling With Children: A Complete How-To Guide (Mountaineers, 1999). No mere armchair adventurer, she has chased five total solar eclipses around the world (Mexico 1970, Arctic 1972, Sahara 1973, South Pacific 1977, Montana 1979); bicycled the 1000-mile length of Baja California (1986-87); trekked to Everest  base camp (1987); and flown to El Salvador to adopt her daughter as a single mom (1991). In the summer of 2000, she and Roxana spent 7 weeks independently tandem-bicycling 650 miles across four states from St. Paul to Cleveland to celebrate her hitting the "Big 5-Oh!" --a trip they dubbed the Half-Century Summer.

Trudy E. Bell has been publishing  for three decades.

Current project for Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling is an IEEE anniversary book, due out 2002

For a PDF file (95 KB) of Trudy E. Bell's resume and  complete list of science and technology publications (17 pages), click here.

To download a shorter PDF file (20KB) of Trudy E. Bell's sci/tech writing CV in  National Institutes of Health format (3 pages), click here.

To download Trudy E. Bell's travel-writing CV and publications since 1970--many of which are not listed in the sci/tech CVs--click  here (55-KB PDF file) (6 pages).

Trudy E. Bell and her daughter Roxana are the authors of the first book ever published on family cycling.

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