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Various news items featuring work with Kepler, other science, and general astronomy commentary
- Chatting about White Dwarfs on Missouri Public Radio (KSMU, October 2, 2025)
- The Indian Genius Who Proved Stars Can Die (The Juggernaut, August 28, 2025)
- Discussing the 2024-25 solar maximum (Des Moines Register: February 10, 2025)
- National Geographic article on Ceclia Payne's discovery of the composition of the stars (January 1, 2025)
- Getting ready for the solar eclipse (ISU Daily: April 2, 2024)
- Prospects for Comet Pons/Brooks (Des Moines Register: April 1, 2024)
- Updating the impact of the Kepler Mission, on Iowa Public Radio (October 9, 2020)
- ISU News release on my (small) contributions to the new book "The NASA Kepler Mission" (October 1, 2020)
- Discussing TESS results on red giants, on Iowa Public Radio River to River (November 25, 2019)
- ISU News release on TESS study of planet orbiting red giant stars (November 19, 2019)
- An early TESS result (ISU Daily, April 28, 2019)
- CNN coverage of early result from TESS: TOI-197.01, a hot Saturn orbiting an evolved star (March 2019)
- ISU News release on TESS early results (March 2019)
- Preparing for the upcoming total lunar eclipse (ISU Daily: January 30, 2018)
- IPR River to River - the August 2017 eclipse (August 2017)
- The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse (ISU Daily: August 16, 2017)
- Inside Iowa State article on the August 21, 2017 total eclipse (August 2017)
- Iowa Public Radio - River to River - update on Kepler planet discoveries (May 13, 2016)
- Thoughts on Planet 9 (Ames Tribune: January 2016)
- Thoughts prior to the New Horizons encounter with Pluto (Ames Tribune: July 2015)
- The VJ Day Kiss
- History.com coverage (July 9, 2015)
- New York Daily News (July 9, 2015)
- WIRED (July 7, 2015)
- CBS News (July 4, 2015)
- Ames Tribune (July 3, 2015)
- Red Orbit interview (June 30, 2015)
- Los Angeles Times (June 26, 2015)
- New York Times piece (June 25, 2015)
- ISU News Release (June 25, 2015)
- Texas State News Release< (June 23, 2015)
- A piece in Urban Plains (May 2015)
- Interview on WHO-TV on upcoming solar eclipse (April 2015)
- St. Cloud State Univ. news article covering my Shapley Lecture (April 2015)
- Lecture announcement for talk at St. Cloud State (April 2015)
- CBS News on the revitalized Kepler mission (February 2015)
- Ames Tribune article (January 2015)
- Interview on BBC World Service (January 2015)
- Kepler 444 (ancient planets) press release (January 2015)
- Appearance on IPR River to River with a Kepler update (January 2015)
- Report on 2014 Alumni Days presentation (May 2014)
- Talking on IPR River to River about Kepler discoveries (October 21, 2013)
- More on Kepler 54 from Science Times (October 2013)
- News release on misaligned orbits in Kepler 56 system (October 2013)
- Chat on Iowa Public Radio's River to River about dark matter (April 5, 2013)
- Some thoughts on the public funding of Kepler (March 2013)
- Kepler 37b, ISU Daily (March 2013)
- Science Daily on Kepler results for red giants (March 2011)
- Kepler early results, ISU Daily (November 2009)
- A 1 hour public lecture on Kepler at Ashton Observatory near Baxter, IA (April 2009)
- Pre-launch discussion of Kepler (incl. video) (February 2009)
- Universe Today (February 2009)
- A planet orbiting a dying star in the ISU Daily (September 2007)
- On the Pluto situation - Radio Iowa (August 2006)
- Visitors... from space, ISU Daily (February 2005)
- Thoughts on servicing the Hubble Space Telescope in the ISU Daily (February 2004)
- Teaching through it all from the ISU Daily (October 2000)
- Master Teachers workshop, ISU Daily (March 2000)
- Panel discussion on technology in astronomy ISU Daily (March 2000)
- 'Soapboxing' in the ISU Daily (February 1999)
- On astrology, ISU Daily (January 1997)
- Media coverage of my work with the Whole Earth Telescope (1998-2004)
