In The News

Various news items featuring work with Kepler and other science

• 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)
• 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)
• IPR River to River - the August 2017 eclipse (August 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 (January 2016)
• Thoughts prior to the New Horizons encounter with Pluto (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 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 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)