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How Weird is the Milky Way?

6/4/2025

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Coming in July 2025: Risa Wechsler's and Marla Geha's Work Featured in Astronomy Magazine
We’re excited to share that Astronomy magazine’s July 2025 issue will feature Risa Wechsler’s work on the SAGA (short for Satellites Around Galactic Analogs) Survey, a groundbreaking project exploring satellite galaxies around Milky Way–like systems.

Read more here
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Fathom by Camille Utterback

6/1/2025

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Commissioned for the Stanford Computing and Data Science building (CoDa), Camille Utterback’s site-specific interactive installation Fathom raises questions regarding the connections between our physical bodies, our data, and how we seek to understand and depict ourselves in the world. 

Utterback worked with Humanities and Sciences Professor and Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Risa Wechsler and SLAC Research Software Developer Ralf Kaehler to select layers from one of their 3D simulations for the glass design. Projections on this triangle include videos of dark matter simulations from both Wechsler’s and Physics and Particle Physics and Astrophysics professor Tom Abel’s research. Read more here
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Risa Wechsler elected to the National Academy of Sciences

4/29/2025

 
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The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research including Risa Wechsler.

Read more about it here and here

Science and Creativity

3/9/2025

 
On March 9, 2025, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’s Los Angeles Committee hosted an event for members and guests on Science and Creativity, which included a conversation moderated by Tom Rosenblum, including Risa with Andrea Ghez and Kip Thorne.  They spoke about creativity within science and across disciplines. More on the conversation here: www.amacad.org/news/science-and-creativity
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Exploring planetarity

12/6/2024

 
An article from Der Spiegel highlights the "Planetary Summit" in Venice with this beginning: "How does it feel to experience a turning point? To be right in the middle of things when the foundations of our world view are being shifted? Perhaps a bit like this November weekend at the Palazzo Diedo in Venice : confusing and educational, megalomaniacal and inspiring – and often as if a bunch of very smart people had drunk far too much coffee.
"13.8 billion years ago," cosmologist Risa Wechsler explains to the audience in the first round of discussions, "our universe began to expand extremely quickly. In this fraction of a
second, all matter was created." Researcher Christine J. Winter, who is sitting with her on the stage, enthusiastically joins in. "We are all made of ten percent hydrogen - that
means ten percent of each of us is 13.8 billion years old!" she exclaims. "I don't know what to think about that!" The audience probably doesn't know it at this point either. But
the weekend has only just begun."
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