Karen Weintraub

Karen Weintraub is a science journalist writing regularly for The New York Times, Scientific American, Technology Review and other news outlets, as well as teaching journalism. In her spare time, she is co-writing a book for MIT Press on the history of Cambridge, MA. She has a a BA in Urban Studies and Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in political science from the University of Houston, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which helped turn her into a science geek.