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writing, interviews, and profiles


  • meet our faculty, stanford April 2018
  • discussing dark matter Kavli Foundation Roundtable November 2017
  • the legacies of carrie fisher and vera rubin for women in science Teen Vogue January 2017
  • remembering vera rubin, who made dark matter matter NPR all things considered December 2016
  • risa wechsler, shedding light on the dark side Spring 2010 

news and tidbits


  • Art installation illuminates the history of encoded data Stanford 2025
  • The Milky Way represents an outlier among similar galaxies, universe survey data shows Stanford 2024
  • Decoding the mysteries of the universe Stanford 2024
  • SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy SLAC 2024
  • Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark and KIPAC team awarded $5M to study the Milky Way Stanford 2024
  • Faculty Women’s Forum announces Stanford Report 2023
  • DESI early data release holds nearly two million objects SLAC 2023
  • Risa Wechsler named 2022 Physical and Biological Sciences Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna UC Santa Cruz News Center 2022
  • Dark Energy Survey physicists open new window into dark energy The Daily 2021
  • Astronomers Create 8 Million Baby Universes Inside a Computer and Watch Them Grow. Here's What They Learned LiveScience 2019
  • catalyze: the talks from TED@NAS TED blog November 2019
  • DESI points 5000 robotic eyes at the sky to explore dark energy EurekAlert October 2019
  • a radio that searches for dark matter stanford report September 2019
  • virtual universe sheds light on galaxy evolution science daily August 2019
  • satellite galaxies provide new clues about dark matter symmetry magazine July 2019
  • making physics more inclusive stanford report August 2019
  • stanford faculty senate focuses on diversity and inclusion practices across the university Stanford Report March 2019
  • an artist and a scientist look at the unseen in the culture and the cosmos JWeekly August 2018
  • risa wechsler named director of kipac SLAC release July 2018
  • for women in science, busting barriers is part of the job Christian Science Monitor March 2018
  • 45-year old telescope gets a makeover to demystify dark energy SLAC release February 2019
  • do we live in a normal galaxy? Discover blog September 2017
  • standard model of the universe withstands most precise test by dark energy survey SLAC release August 2017
  • scientists on the proposed head of the department of energy buzzfeed news December 2016
  • stanford physicists help discover dark dwarf galaxy stanford news April 2016
  • learning about the future from the distant past stanford/slac news March 2016
  • horizon: the mystery of dark energy on BBC March 2016
  • astronomers plan science projects for powerful new space telescope UCSC news February 2016
  • exploring the dark universe with supercomputers symmetry magazine January 2016
  • classy classes: students learn about the building blocks of cosmology in physics 16 stanford daily January 2016
  • DESI, an ambitious probe of dark energy, achieves its next major milestone LBL September 2015
  • dark energy survey finds more celestial neighbors symmetry magazine August 2015
  • miraculous wimps symmetry magazine July 2015
  • exploring dark energy with robots symmetry magazine June 2015
  • scientists release largest map yet of dark matter in the cosmos NPR April 2015
  • open access to the universe symmetry magazine August 2014
  • scientists to map the universe in 3D symmetry magazine May 2014
  • learning to play the dark matter boogie symmetry magazine October 2012
  • synthetic universes: how simulations will help the search for dark energy computation institute news, October 2012
  • kipac video
  • our galaxy's big ears: milky way's large companion galaxies stand out Scientific American, December 2011
  • just four percent of galaxies have neighbors like the milky way National Science Foundation
  • learning to play the dark matter boogie symmetry magazine October 2012
  • bringing the universe into focus symmetry magazine October 2012
  • a dark matter for astrophysics research HPCWire, May 2011
  • a strange menage a trois Nature News and Views, December 2010
  • risa wechsler, shedding light on the dark side Kavli Foundation Newsletter, July 2010
  • team surveys first third of cosmic time SLAC Today, March 2010
  • exposing the nature of cosmic liasons SLAC Today, Oct 2007
  • dark matter's role in galaxy formation Univ of Chicago Chronicle, July 2006
  • galaxy evolution in cyber universe matches astronomical observations Univ of Chicago Chronicle, June 2006
  • a simpler cosmic relation Astronomy Magazine, March 2006
  • risa's compton lectures Univ of Chicago Chronicle, April 2005
  • the dark energy survey, Univ of Chicago Chronicle, March 2005
  • the future of the universe, Science News, August 2002

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