Paula Apsell Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Paula Apsell is an American television producer and executive producer. She is best known for her work on the PBS science series NOVA, which she has been executive producer of since 1984. She has won numerous awards for her work on the show, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series in 1995 and the Peabody Award in 1996. Apsell was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1969 with a degree in English. She began her career in television in 1972, working as a production assistant for WGBH-TV in Boston. She was promoted to producer in 1975 and became executive producer of NOVA in 1984. Apsell has been a leader in the field of science television, and has been credited with helping to make NOVA one of the most successful science programs on television. She has also been a leader in the field of educational television, and has been a strong advocate for the use of television as a tool for teaching science. Apsell is married to Dr. Michael Apsell, a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They have two children.

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On May 21, 2019, WGBH announced that Apsell would be named Senior Executive Producer Emerita. WGBH also announced an annual scholarship in her name in recognition of Apsell's career achievements in science broadcasting, communication, and education. The Paula S. Apsell/WGBH STEM Boston Public School Scholarship will be granted to Boston public school students. Currently, Apsell is running an independent production company called Leading Edge Productions, and is working on a film about Jewish resistance to the Holocaust.

In October 2018, Paula Apsell received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award from the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. Apsell is the first science journalist to receive this award.

In 2011, in addition to overseeing the NOVA franchise, Apsell taught science communications at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara.

"Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," 2008

In 2005, Apsell launched a NOVA spin-off series, NOVAScienceNow hosted first by Dr. Neil De Grasse Tyson and later by technology journalist David Pogue.

"Galileo's Battle For The Heavens," 2002

"Surviving AIDS," 2000 (AAAS Westinghouse Journalism Award)

Apsell was asked to take over the top post at NOVA in 1985 where she remained for the three-and-a-half decades. Among Apsell's most notable NOVA's include "The Miracle of Life" sequel "Life's Greatest Miracle," "The Fabric of the Cosmos" with Brian Greene, and "Making North America" with Dr. Kirk Johnson. Other of Apsell's acclaimed productions are the giant-screen films "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" and "Special Effects" which was nominated for an Academy Award®.

In 1983-84 MIT awarded her the Vannevar Bush Fellowship in the Public Understanding of Science. She studied evolutionary biology, and health policy among other topics.

In 1981 Apsell went to Boston's ABC affiliate, WCVB, and was a producer for medical correspondent Dr. Timothy Johnson. At WCVB, Apsell produced "Someone I Once Knew," a groundbreaking program essentially introducing the story of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia into the public sphere.

In 1975, Apsell switched over to WGBH-TV as a production assistant for NOVA's second season. One of Apsell's first productions was NOVA "Death of a Disease" which was the first long-form documentary on the eradication of smallpox. In the late 1970s Apsell was producing documentaries on artificial intelligence and genetic engineering; topics that rarely existed in the mainstream prior to the 21st century.

In 1969, Apsell graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in psychology.

Paula S. Apsell (born July 4, 1947) is the television Executive Producer Emerita of PBS's NOVA and was director of the WGBH Science Unit.