Pat Wingert is an award-winning reporter who has spent the last 25 years at Newsweek Magazine covering a wide variety of domestic policy issues, including education, health, children, families, demographics, social trends, politics, crime and the military. She hopes to use her Spencer Fellowship to learn more about the science of learning, and how the country can use education research to improve science and math instruction.

Before coming to Newsweek, Wingert worked as a reporter at both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, including a stint as legendary Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Mike Royko’s legman. She was also the editor of the student newspaper at the University of Illinois-Urbana.

Along with her Newsweek colleague Barbara Kantrowitz, Wingert is the co-author of The Menopause Book (originally published in 2007 as Is It Hot in Here? Or Is It Me?). The book was a finalist for the Quill Award for best health book of 2007 and one of the Library Journal’s Best Consumer Health books. Wingert and Kantrowitz were also the 2009 winners of the Endocrine Society’s Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism, and the longtime coauthors of Newsweek.com’s Her Body column.

She lives in Washington DC with her husband, Brian Kelly, the editor of US News, and their three children.

Published Work:
Making a Better Science Teacher
Pat Wingert studied the nation’s math and science teaching reforms during her year as a Spencer Fellow. Her work was published in the August, 2012 edition of Scientific American.

Give Peace a Chance

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/06/when-school-reformers-and-union-leaders-unite.html

An Offer They Won’t Refuse
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/12/how-one-district-fixed-its-failing-schools.html

Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/05/why-we-must-fire-bad-teachers.html

Schoolyard Brawl
By Evan Thomas and Pat Wingert
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/05/schoolyard-brawl.html

Minority Report
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/02/18/minority-report.html

An Unlikely Gambler
By Evan Thomas, Pat Wingert and Eve Conant
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/08/22/an-unlikely-gambler.html

Reading Your Baby’s Brain
http://www.newsweek.com/2005/08/14/reading-your-baby-s-mind.html

Learn the Hard Way
http://www.newsweek.com/2003/12/14/learn-the-hard-way.html

The Right Way to Read
http://www.newsweek.com/2002/04/28/the-right-way-to-read.html

Other Topics:
2405 Dead Since Tucson
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/13/2-405-shot-dead-since-tucson.html

Vietnam Demons and John Wheeler
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/15/john-wheeler-s-death-his-vietnam-demons.html

Crazy Talk
Live Your Best Life Ever!
by Wes Kosova and Pat Wingert
http://www.newsweek.com/2009/05/29/live-your-best-life-ever.html

When Adoption Goes Wrong
http://www.newsweek.com/2007/12/08/when-adoption-goes-wrong.html

On Call in Hell
http://www.newsweek.com/2006/03/19/on-call-in-hell.html