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About Kenneth Chang
Kenneth Chang has been a science reporter at The New York Times since April 2000. Before joining The Times, Mr. Chang was a science writer for ABCNews.com from 1997 to 2000. In the summer of 1997, he covered science news for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and from 1996 to 1997 he reported on education news for Greenwich Time in Greenwich, Conn. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. 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.
Mr. 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.
Born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1965, Mr. 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.
He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.