May 25, 2021 at 1:57 AM
West Orange resident and TAPinto journalist, Deborah Balthazar, has been named the inaugural New York University (NYU) recipient of the Anne O’Hare McCormick Memorial Fund Scholarship.
Balthazar, 25, graduated cum laude from Caldwell University in 2017. She majored in biology and completed pre-med curriculum, but realized that science journalism is her true calling after receiving a summer fellowship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
She has been contributing to TAPinto West Orange for two years and is also a substitute science teacher. Balthazar will begin the program in September and pursue her master s degree in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at NYU.