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ARISE / Laura Mackey Lorentzen, Ph.D.

Laura Mackey Lorentzen, Ph.D.

Laura Mackey Lorentzen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Biological Sciences
Kean University

Laura Lorentzen is the Department Chair for Biological Sciences at Kean University in Union, NJ, Currently the PI of the NSF Robert Noyce STEM Teacher Grant Track 1, her teaching emphasis is general biology as well as cell physiology and neuroscience. She earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences/Molecular Physiology and Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX, an MS in Cellular & Molecular Biology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh PA. She is a past president of the New Jersey Academy of Science (NJAS) and past editor-in-chief of AWIS Magazine, for the Association of Women in Science.

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