Patrick Regan is NJN’s senior correspondent for science and technology. He covers news about scientific research, technological innovation, and math and science education, inviting viewers inside New Jersey’s academic and industrial labs and offering insight into a wide range of issues. His Science and Technology Report is seen every Wednesday and Friday on NJN News. Regan also hosted the interview program “Inside Science,” an NJN series on topics including cosmology, climate change, and genomics.

He was named a finalist in competition for the 2004 National Academies Communication Award. For his reporting on robotic exploration of Mars, the American Geophysical Union named him a finalist for the 2005 Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. He has been nominated for Emmy awards in both New York and Mid-Atlantic broadcast regions.

Regan joined NJN in 2001 from Lucent Technologies, where he served as a science and technology writer, magazine editor, and spokesperson for Bell Labs. His formal education, at Middlebury College and the University of Pennsylvania, was in English and American literature. His on-the-job education at Lucent, AT&T, and Bellcore immersed him in fields such as physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, information theory, microelectronics, data networking, Internet security, wireless and optical communications, and software engineering. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a New York Times professional fellow.