Julie Leibach
Web Managing Editor
Julie was born in Gainesville, Florida, where she spent many an afternoon exploring the woods around her family's house. That's probably where she first fell in love with nature, and she has fanned the flame ever since.
When it came time to shape up and ship out, Julie attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she majored in biology and Spanish.
After graduating from college, Julie decided to devote some time to Things Unrelated to Academics. But school eventually lured her back when she was accepted into New York University's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program. Her close-knit class of 13 founded the program's online magazine, Scienceline, which published Julie's feature article "Black Mayonnaise." That story won first place for outstanding student reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2007.
Julie is now the web managing editor at Science Friday, a website and weekly radio show hosted by Ira Flatow. Before that, she was a senior editor and a web manager at Audubon magazine. Though many scientific and environmental subjects appeal to her, Julie is particularly fascinated by the nexus between science and art. That's why, for several years, she enjoyed authoring Audubon's "One Picture" column, which appeared on the print edition's last page and featured a show-stopping image accompanied by descriptive text.
Recent Stories
Science
Science Friday
December 23, 2016
Over the past three decades, fossil hunters in northeastern China have unearthed thousands of superbly preserved Mesozoic bird remains.
Science
Science Friday
October 18, 2016
Researchers are studying what lip prints and other subtle physical traits might reveal about the etiology of cleft lip and palate.
Books
Science Friday
September 26, 2016
School days are here again, so stuff your kid’s backpack with some worthy reading material.
Science
Science Friday
June 08, 2016
Coral are under threat around the world, endangered by rising temperatures and pollution. One way to save them? Freeze and store their sperm.
Science
Science Friday
May 28, 2016
Over course of almost 30 years, a father-son duo created a vast array of sea creatures out of glass. Their purpose wasn't art, though they certainly are beautiful, but rather to help scientists on land get a look at what these undersea creatures are like.
Environment
Science Friday
April 20, 2016
The orchid mantis takes on the color of a “generic or an average type of flower” to attract bees and other pollinating insects as prey.
Science
Science Friday
April 06, 2016
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera are on display from now until December 2016 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Culture
GlobalPost
March 09, 2016
People who dropped dairy started missing 'funky, smelly, stinky cheeses,' so they made some out of nuts.
Food
Science Friday
March 08, 2016
Next time you stop at your favorite cheese shop, be on the lookout for a special kind of cheese: vegan cheese.
Technology
Science Friday
January 14, 2016
The New York Public Library just made it easier for the public to access thousands of digitized high-resolution items as part of an effort to preserve our cultural history in the Internet Age.
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