Jennifer Ouellette

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This article is about the author. For the fashion designer, see Jennifer Ouellette (milliner).
Jennifer Ouellette
File:Jennifer Ouellette TAM 2012.JPG
Jennifer Ouellette in July, 2012
Born (1964-05-17) May 17, 1964 (age 59)
Ashland, Wisconsin
Occupation Writer and editor
Citizenship United States
Education BA English, Seattle Pacific University, 1985
Spouse Sean M. Carroll (2007 – present)
Website
www.jenniferouellette-writes.com

Jennifer Ouellette (born May 17, 1964) is a science writer based in Los Angeles, California. Her writings are aimed at mainstream audiences unfamiliar with complex scientific issues.

Life and career

Ouellette is the former director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange, an initiative of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) designed to connect entertainment industry professionals with top scientists and engineers to help the creators of television shows, films, video games, and other productions incorporate science into their work.[1] "The National Academy is hoping to basically foster this current trend in television and get more interactions between science and Hollywood, in the hopes of changing the way science and scientists are portrayed."[2] "We want Hollywood to basically help us inspire people and to get them interested in science and in rationalism so that they then go on to read more and become more educated."[2]

She also served as Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2008[3] and worked in New Mexico with the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop as an instructor in 2009.[4]

From 1995 until 2004 she was a contributing editor of The Industrial Physicist magazine, published by the American Institute of Physics.[5] On the Meet the Skeptics! podcast Ouellette's husband, physicist Sean Carroll, said "She was an English major with no science background whatsoever...while working as a freelance journalist in New York City she was hired by the American Physical Society after they found out that it was easier to teach physics to people who knew how to write than to teach writing to people who knew physics."[6] She is currently a freelance writer contributing to a physics outreach dialogue with articles in a variety of publications such as Physics World,[7] Discover magazine,[8] New Scientist,[9] Physics Today,[10] and The Wall Street Journal.[11]

Ouellette also participates in a variety of print and online interviews such as NPR's Science Friday, SETI radio with Seth Shostak, and panel discussions at The Amaz!ng Meeting,[12] Dragon Con,[13] Center for Inquiry, and the National Association of Science Writers.[14] She appeared on NOVA in 2008 and on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on February 11, 2011 discussing her book The Calculus Diaries and winning a coveted Golden Mouth Organ.[15] She also has a blog, "Cocktail Party Physics: Physics with a twist" where she and other female contributors chat about the latest science news. "You just tell entertaining stories and weave the science in and it’s a way of getting people familiar and interested in what is normally kind of a scary subject for them."[2]

September 2015, Ouellette announced a new role as Senior Science Editor for Gizmodo.[16]

Books

  • Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 2005. ISBN 978-0143036036
  • The Physics of the Buffyverse, illustrated by Paul Dlugokencky, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 2006. ISBN 0143038621
  • The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse, Penguin Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0143117377
  • The Best Science Writing Online 2012, (editor), Scientific American /Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, NY), 2012. ISBN 978-0374533342
  • Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 2014. ISBN 978-0143121657

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