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Arlington, Texas (10/24) - Laura Fasbach, a staff writer for The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey, is the winner of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation (MERF) Press Award. Mensa is the international high IQ society. MERF is the Mensa affiliate concerned with fostering human intelligence through scholarships, research and recognition of outstanding work.
The $1,000 award was presented October 18 at the annual Gifted and Talented Educators Conference at the Westin Hotel in Morristown, New Jersey.
Fasbach's article, "Helping Talent Shine: School Programs Vary and Long-Term Results are Unclear," appeared in The Record on Sunday, July 15, 2001. It was an extensive examination of several programs for gifted and talented students in New Jersey.
"The article was actually an assignment, a good one, I might add, from my editor," Fasbach said. "Often as a reporter, I get the chance to write about a wide array of topics beyond my beat, and the story of gifted and talented programs is one such example."
A resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, Fasbach has been a newspaper reporter for the past eight years. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware. A native of Long Island, New York, she has worked for The Record in Bergen County for the past two years as a municipal reporter. She has worked for a variety of papers including The Roanoke Times in Virginia and The Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 1998, The Associated Press of New York awarded her first place for feature writing for an article documenting the plight of migrant backstretch workers at the Saratoga Race Course.
The MERF Press Award is given each year for outstanding writing about human intelligence, especially giftedness, that has appeared in a newspaper or magazine meant for a general audience. Previous winners have been reporters from the Chicago Tribune and the Arizona Republic.
Based in Arlington, Texas, American Mensa is for anyone who scores in the top 2 percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test. The organization has approximately 47,000 members. For more information about applying for membership, interested persons can call (800) 66-MENSA or visit www.previous.us.mensa.org.
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