Rae-Dupree has been covering innovation for more than three decades, specializing in writing about emerging technologies and the science of technology. She has been on staff at U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, the L.A. Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and a number of smaller publications. Her award-winning freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, CIO Insight, Fast Company, the Silicon Valley Business Journal, VentureBeat, the USC Alumni magazine, Cleveland Clinic Magazine, ONE Magazine, PC World, Meridian, Contribute, and many other publications and web sites. In addition to her work as a writer, she is a writing coach, freelance editor, and author of the "Anatomy & Physiology Workbook for Dummies." Rae-Dupree also offers:Business writing. She writes white papers, profiles, executive summaries and other business collateral. Her coverage has ranged from IPOs and venture capital to industry trends and bankruptcy filings. A University of Nevada Business Journalism Fellow in 1997, she won the Best Financial Analysis award. Science writing. Starting as the fill-in science writer at the Mercury News, where she pioneered the production of science-of-tech pieces, Rae-Dupree became active with the National Association of Science Writers and has written for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the American Society of Cell Biology, Acumen, Stanford News and many other science outlets.Breaking news. She was part of the Los Angeles Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Los Angeles riots. She has covered earthquakes, fires, floods, airplane crashes, oil refinery explosions and a host of other crises. General-assignment features. She has written about everything from airborne observatories and water desalination to least terns and talking gorillas. She has broken stories in politics, senior housing, semiconductors, consumer scams, public transit, college admissions and coastal access.