Media

Check out this page for updates on media related to the Rice Research Group.

I regularly serve as a speaker for both scientific and general audiences, and I often provide media insights about new scientific results. I am always looking for fun new opportunities to share science more broadly. Looking for speakers, science advisors, guest articles, or something else? Please feel free to contact me to inquire about my availability.

4/4/2025 - Yale News, "Yale’s newest 51 Pegasi b fellow will sort through stellar ‘noise’ with AI"
3/3/2025 - Girls Inc., "Girls Inc. to honor Auli'i Cravalho, Dr. Malena Rice, Kelly Stevens and Shaina Taub at the National New York Luncheon"
11/5/2024 - CNN, "Is there a hidden planet in our solar system? Astronomers say the moment of truth is near"
10/30/2024 - PBS NOVA, "Solar System: Wandering Worlds"
10/2/2024 - AAS Nova, "Cool it Down: Warm Jupiters Are Better Aligned Than Hot Jupiters"
4/3/2024 - Yale News, "Yale’s new 51 Pegasi b fellow will explore origins of ‘hot’ Jupiters"
2/23/2024 - Yale News, "A new beginning: The search for more temperate Tatooines"
2/7/2024 - Vice, "Scientists Are Now Close to Finding a Mysterious Planet That Explains Strange Cosmic Phenomena, Study Reports"
11/28/2023 - Yale News, "Astronomers find ‘tilted’ planets even in pristine solar systems"
11/24/2023 - Cool Worlds Podcast Episode #8

10/5/2023 - Scientific American, "Can Lucky Planets Get a Second Chance at Life?"

9/22/2023 - Yale News, "New FAS faculty reflects commitment to excellence and diversity"

9/12/2023 - Popular Science, "Why a mystery ninth planet might be lurking beyond Pluto"

7/6/2023 - RCSA News, "8 Teams Win Awards in Final Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe"

6/27/2023 - Popular Science, "There might be an ice giant planet hiding in our solar system"

6/1/2023 - News at IU, " 'Hot Jupiters' May Not Be Orbiting Alone"

5/26/2023 - IAU News, "2022 IAU PhD Prize Winners Announced"

12/21/2022 - MIT Alumni, "28 MIT Trailblazers Celebrated in Forbes 30 Under 30 List"

12/20/2022 - Yale News, "Yale Junior, Alumni Make Forbes' '30 Under 30' List For Their Impact"

11/29/2022 - Forbes 30 Under 30 - Science (awardee)

11/29/2022 - Forbes, "Forbes Under 30 Science 2023: Fueling Spaceships, Building Better Sensors and Discovering New Planets"

10/18/2022 - The Garden, "Are We Missing a Planet in Our Solar System?"

9/14/2022 - Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences, "New Ladder Faculty and Professors (2022-2023)"

9/3/2022 - Yale Scientific Magazine, "How to Make a Hot Jupiter"

5/28/2022 - AAS Journal Author Series, "Origins of Hot Jupiters from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution"

4/22/2022 - Yale News, "In 3MT contest, doctoral students teach and triumph in 180 seconds"

4/20/2022 - Yale Daily News, "Yale student receives prestigious astronomy fellowship"

3/31/2022 - Yale News, "Yale astronomer named a 51 Pegasi b Fellow"

3/31/2022 - Heising-Simons Foundation, "Eight Early-Career Scientists Awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowship"

2/14/2022 - Science News, "How 'hot Jupiters' may get their weirdly tight orbits"

12/21/2021 - Yale Office of Career Strategy, "Yale Ph.D. Students Attend Leadership Luncheon Honoring Business Innovators"

10/14/2021 - The Daily Galaxy, "Will We Image Planet Nine Within the Next Decade?"

8/31/2021 - National Geographic, "Planet 9 may be closer and easier to find than thought—if it exists"

8/9/2021 - Yale Physics, "Third annual Granville Academy continues to explore diversity, equity and inclusion for student researchers"

6/19/2021 - New Haven Register, "Student achievements, June 19, 2021"

6/17/2021 - Astrobites, "Getting Started in Sonification" (article co-written with Will Saunders and Alex Gagliano)

6/8/2021 - New Canaan Advertiser, "$20,000: College student nominated by New Canaan organization"

4/17/2021 - Yale Office of Career Strategy, "2021 3-Minute Thesis Competition Winners"

11/16/2020 - Yale Daily News, "Yale astronomers venture on quest for Planet Nine"

11/8/2020 - Numerama, "Le Shift-stacking, la méthode ambitieuse pour mettre la main sur la Planète Neuf"

11/7/2020 - International Business Times (Singapore), "Missing 9th Planet Existed in Our Solar System, But 'Kicked Out' Into Distant Space, Say Astronomers"

11/2/2020 - Scientias.nl, "Als Planeet X Bestaat, Vinden We'm Misschien Wel Door Te Schuiven En Stapelen"

10/28/2020 - Inverse, "The hunt for Planet 9 is back on"

10/28/2020 - Scientific American, "In the hunt for Planet Nine, astronomers eye a new search technique for the elusive world"

10/27/2020 - Yale News, "Lighting a path to find Planet Nine"

10/27/2020 - DPS 52 Press Conference (video here)

6/24/2020 - Berkeley News, "Rogue's gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries"

12/13/2019 - Pierazzo International Student Travel Award Winners announcement

12/12/2019 - Daily Nutmeg, "Star Power"

11/31/2019 - Mercury Magazine,"Passing Through"

11/25/2019 - Washington Post, "An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system"

11/20/2019 - Nature, "How two intruders from interstellar space are upending astronomy"

10/17/2019 - Live Science, "An Asteroid-Smashing Star Ground a Giant Rock to Bits and Covered Itself in the Remains"

10/15/2019 - Inverse, "Comet Borisov and planet formation is 'still a puzzle that we can't really explain' "

10/14/2019 - PBS NOVA, "Meet the second confirmed interstellar object to enter our solar system"

10/14/2019 - The Wire, "Meet 2I/Borisov, the First Comet From Another Star Visiting Our Solar System"

10/3/2019 - Scientific American, "Astronomers Find Our Second Interstellar Visitor Looks like the Locals"

10/1/2019 - New York Times, "An Interstellar Comet, in Time for the Holidays"

9/30/2019 - CNN, "Expect more interstellar object sightings in our solar system, researchers say"

9/30/2019 - Discover Magazine, "Astronomers Expect to Start Finding Many More Interstellar Space Rocks"

9/26/2019 - Yale News, "Get ready for more interstellar objects, Yale astronomers say"

8/15/2019 - Keck Observatory highlight

5/2/2019 - Exploring New Worlds blog interview