Coordinated by Professor Rebecca Leung

Reporter Ken Chang has been a science writer for The New York Times since 2000 and was actively involved in the planning and production of science-related news features for a variety of platforms (blog posts, print articles, interactive features, podcasts and videos) when the Times made its transition to a hybrid digital pay model in 2011. He just recently launched the new Times science-focused newsletter “Science Times.”

Chang covers NASA, dinosaurs, archaeology, chemistry, geology, solid state physics, nanotechnology, Pluto, plague and other scientific miscellany. He should have received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois but instead left after seven years to attend the science writing program at University of California at Santa Cruz. He worked at The Los Angeles Times, the Greenwich Time in Connecticut, The Newark Star-Ledger and ABC News prior to joining the Times in 2000.

From 1995 to 2000, Chang was also a freelance writer, writing for the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, San Diego Union-Tribune, Science, United Press International and Santa Cruz County Sentinel. He began his reporting career, after abandoning his Ph.D. physics studies, interning at the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Chang has also worked as a research programmer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Champaign, Ill.

Chang’s article, “Ten Planets? Why Not Eleven?” appeared in The Best American Science Writing 2006, a book which annually presents a wide range of the day’s leading topics in science. In 1996, he received an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Chang graduated cum laude with a B.S. in physics from Princeton University in 1987. He also received an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1995.

Kenneth Chang Bio: The New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/kenneth_chang/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/by/kenneth-chang