Nationality American Spouse Sheldon Apsell Role Television producer | Name Paula Apsell Education Brandeis University | |
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Born July 4, 1947 (age 77) ( 1947-07-04 ) Occupation Executive producer, NOVA Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Report in a News Magazine Similar People Jody Patton, Paul Allen, Brian Greene, David Fanning, Kelly Tyler‑Lewis Profiles | ||
Other names Paula Schwartz Apsell |
PBS at the TV Critics Press Tour | Paula Apsell interview
Paula Schwartz Apsell (born July 4, 1947)

Apsell, is the WGBH television executive producer of NOVA and director of the WGBH Science Unit. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, she grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Her grandfather was a cobbler and an immigrant from Kiev. In 1969 she graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in psychology.
In 1994 she received the Boston Museum of Science Bradford Washburn Award for her career contributions to science journalism.
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
She is married to MicroLogic, Inc. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, physicist Sheldon Apsell Ph.D., a co-founder of Kronos, and developer of LoJack.