Noah Haggerty is a 2024 AAAS mass media fellow at the Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of Northeastern University, where he conducted research in plasma physics and fusion energy science. At Northeastern, Haggerty was the editor of the student science magazine, NU Sci, and deputy editor at the Science Media Lab.
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