Laura Chang became science editor at The New York Times in September 2004. Heading a staff of two dozen reporters and editors, she oversees the weekly section Science Times, the daily science and medicine report and the expanded news and consumer offerings on nytimes.com/health. Ms. Chang joined the science department in 1998 and was appointed deputy science editor in 2001. Before that she held various posts on the national desk, starting as a copy editor in May 1990 and becoming special projects editor in 1995. Ms. Chang began her career at The Seattle Times in 1985 working as a wire editor and copy editor. She left to join The New York Times in 1990. Ms. Chang is the editor of “Scientists at Work: Profiles of Today’s Groundbreaking Scientists from Science Times.” (McGraw-Hill, 2000).A native of Seattle, Ms. Chang received a B.S. degree in communications with an emphasis in psychology at the University of Washington in 1984. She served as a copy-editing intern that summer at The Tribune in San Diego.