Biography

Lori Oliwenstein has been with Caltech's office of strategic communications since 2008. She oversees the production, design and content of Caltech's print and online flagship publications, including Caltech magazine and the institute's annual overview book, This is Caltech. She and her team are also responsible for the Caltech Catalog; the institute's weekly internal and external newsletters; its internally focused webpage, Caltech Today; the copyediting of news and other content; a variety of one-off online and print publications, including The Periodic Table of Caltech; and for Caltech's editorial and visual style guides. Oliwenstein has more than 30 years of experience as a writer and editor, and has written about everything from acupuncture to bacterial suicide for such outlets as TIME, Psychology Today, and Vegetarian Times. She is the author of Taming Bipolar Disorder (Alpha Books, 2004) and the coauthor of Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within (DK Publishing, 2001).

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