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Lauren Barack is an award-winning journalist who writes about the impact of science and technology on business, education and society.
Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for the series, "Middle Class Crunch," Lauren investigated the economic impact on the middle class producing both video and text that hit 1 million views in its first week for MSN Money at launch.
She has written for Newsweek, Wired, Parenting, Inc., The San Francisco Chronicle, Quartz, KQED, the New York Post, The Daily Beast, Salon, Variety, Fortune, St. Petersburg Times, Men's Journal and others. Lauren also helped launch, staff and develop editorial for GearBrain, a news site focused on consumer technology, and ran Mothers On The Verge, a parenting blog featured on HuffPost.
A former television producer and writer, she segment produced comedy shows for Comedy Central, served as an associate producer on stand up shows for MTV, and worked as a script writer for TNT and VH-1.
Lauren has a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley, a BFA in filmmaking from NYU's Tisch School of The Arts, and also studied genetics at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. She is a master's student in Cognitive Neuroscience at The Graduate Center, CUNY. A former Poynter Fellow, Lauren earned a Pace Foundation Fellowship in Robotics, won an Eddie Award for her COVID-19 coverage at School Library Journal, and received an Associated Press Television Radio Association honor while in graduate school.
A story that highlights recent research on the connection between dementia and a specific protein.
A piece that looked at soft robots, with parts that can distinegrate.
We examined the tracking concerns around period apps following the roll back of Roe v Wade.
https://www.k12dive.com/news/debate-argument-strengthen-science-learning/715537/
This feature featured educators and science experts on how to bring the concept of uncertainty to science students in K-12 grades.
How using real-world science can help spark engagement with students. I interviewed NASA scientist on the James Webb project, and a post-doc at NASA to hear about ways to link space science in particular to other STEAM disciplines.
