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CU Model Solar System in the News

June 22, 2019 / JeffreyBennett / News Features

The Daily Camera published this article about our efforts to update the CU Scale Model Solar System, being led by Jimmy Negus.

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Daily Camera: Boulder Author Sends 7th Book to Space

February 16, 2016 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features

This article was published in the Boulder Daily Camera. By Amy Bounds, Daily Camera Staff Writer Jeffrey Bennett, a Boulder astrophysicist and educator, recently sent his seventh science book into space. An advance copy of his latest children’s book, “I, Humanity,” was among the 7,700 pounds of cargo successfully delivered Dec. 9 to astronauts on […]

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VIDEO: Jeff Interviewed for 9News Climate Change Story

December 11, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features, TV Interviews, Videos

Featured on 9NEWS Maya Rodriguez, KUSA

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Denver Post: For Boulder astrophysicist, it’s all relativity

August 20, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features, Relativity, Space News

Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]

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New Article about Story Time From Space

June 26, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features, Story Time From Space

Great article from the Penticton Western News: http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/309929341.html Penticton woman takes reading program to space with NASA Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata reads from Jeffrey Bennett’s book The Wizard Who Saved the World aboard the Insternational Space Station. Penticton’s Patricia Tribe came up with the idea of promoting science through astronauts reading and doing experiments from space […]

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VIDEO: Do you understand the Theory of Relativity, really?

March 17, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Featured Videos, Jeff in the Media, News Features, Relativity, TV Interviews, Videos

Featured on 9NEWS Maya Rodriguez, KUSA

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Boulder Author’s Children’s Books Headed to Space

December 14, 2013 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features, Story Time From Space

Jeffrey Bennett is recent recipient of national award The Daily Camera – December 14, 2013 Author: Amy Bounds – Camera Staff Writer Jeffrey Bennett, a Boulder astrophysicist and educator, has already had one of his children’s books made into a planetarium show by Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium and read by an astronaut on the Space Shuttle […]

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Kirkus Reviews “Back Story” on Max

November 27, 2013 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features

I was asked by Kirkus Reviews to write the following short piece about my experiences in publishing Big Kid Science books and explaining how Max ended up going into orbit . Click here to read it on the Kirkus site. Back Story: From Low-Earth Sales to an Actual Book Launch  Imagine real astronauts aboard the International […]

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2013 Science Communication Award for Max Goes to the Moon

October 30, 2013 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features

Posted by the American Institute of Physics. Authors Tom Siegfried and Jeffrey Bennett honored. Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2013 — The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has named a journalist and a children’s book author as winners of the 2013 AIP Science Communications Awards for their works on the discovery of the Higgs boson and […]

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Article about Beyond UFOs Talk at Aurora Community College

January 15, 2013 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features

UNIVERSAL QUESTION: Astrophysicist lays out scientific case that explores why we may not be alone Dr. Jeffrey Bennett stuck to scientific protocol Nov. 30 to address the notion of extraterrestrial life at the bi-annual Sherlin Lecture on Astronomy and Space Science, sticking to what is proven vs. what is proselytized. But it the longtime astrophysicist’s […]

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