Much of Jennifer’s work has been in the science trade press. She is associate editor of APS News, the monthly publication of The American Physical Society; and writes for the American Institute of Physics’ TV project, Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Science, as well as its Inside Science News Service. She was also a contributing editor for the now-defunct The Industrial Physicist magazine; a 1997 article on concert hall acoustics garnered her an award in science writing from the Acoustical Society of America. She is a card-carrying member of both the Author's Guild and the National Association of Science Writers, and holds a black belt in jujitsu.
Jennifer is equally adept at writing about science in the popular press, most notably for Discover, Salon, New Scientist, and On Earth. She has written about such varied topics as the acoustics of Mayan pyramids and New York City subways; fractal patterns in the paintings of Jackson Pollock; the science behind architectural arches; and the precarious pitfalls of pseudoscience.
A strong advocate of public outreach and education in the sciences—and critical thinking in general—Jennifer presides over the popular general science blog, Cocktail Party Physics, which doubles as an online prose laboratory and outlet for her writerly effluvia. She is currently hard at work drafting an outline for her third (as-yet-untitled) book.