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Kitta MacPherson, an award-winning science writer with more than 25 years of experience, has joined the Office of Communications staff as a senior writer.
MacPherson has been a science editor and writer at the Star-Ledger of Newark since 1983. Before that, she was a reporter and manager of the Star-Ledger’s Passaic Bureau in Paterson for two years and a police reporter at the Bergen Record in Hackensack for a year.
At Princeton, she will be responsible primarily for writing science stories for the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, the University website and release to the media. She also will respond to media inquiries when they pertain to the sciences. In addition, she will write and edit other materials produced by the Office of Communications.
A magna cum laude graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, MacPherson has won a Science-in-Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers, a National Communications Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and several awards from the New Jersey Press Association.
She succeeds Chad Boutin, who has resigned.
