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• StarTalk with Neil de Grasse Tyson, The Dark Side of the Universe, June 5, 2024
• The World Science Festival June 1, 2024 The Biggest Mysteries of the Big Bang, interview by Brian Greene
  • Youtube Video
• PNAS Cozzarelli Prize interview 2024
• “Into the Impossible,” Interview with Brian Keating, “Katie Freese: What is the Cosmic Cocktail? Three Parts Dark Matter!” October, 2023
• NPR, Interview on Dark Stars, August 2023 (Texas Standard, interview by David Brown)
• Apple Finch Pudding, Journey to the Dark Side with Katherine Freese, December 2023 
• More Mysteries in the Universe, Interview with Katherine Freese by Paolo Salucci, October 2022 
• “#600 Katherine Freese – The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter” Freese on the Dissenter Podcast. 3/17/22.
• “The Elusive Darkness of the Universe” Freese at the World Science Festival Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 3/9/22.
• “Dark Matter in the Universe” Freese at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. 2/7/22.
• “Does dark matter still matter?” Freese on CrowdScience. 1/21/22.
• “The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter” Freese at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO. 8/6/21.
• “The Challenging Search for Elusive Dark Matter” Freese’s course at World Science U.
• “Public Lecture: The Dark Side of the Universe” Freese at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. 3/25/21.
• “Colloquium: Dark Matter in the Universe” Freese at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. 3/24/21.
• “Solving the Universe’s Big Questions” Freese at the Texas Science Festival. 3/16/21.
• “Katie Freese: What is the Cosmic Cocktail? Three Parts Dark Matter!” Freese on INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 2/2/2021.
• Discovery Science TV, “How the Universe Works Season Eight Episode 2: First Contact” airdate of January 16th, 2020 on Science Channel
• “NOVA Wonders: What’s the Universe Made Of?” airdate of Wednesday, May 30th 2018 on PBS
• “Why does dark matter matter?” Freese on The Naked Scientists. 5/14/2019.
• “Why do scientists want to discover dark matter?” Freese on BBC World Service’s CrowdScience. 2/12/2018.
• “How the Universe Works Season Six Episode 1: Are Black Holes Real?” Freese on Discovery Science TV, aired on Science Channel. 1/9/2018.
• “Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecture” Freese speaks at the 230th American Astronomical Society Meeting in Austin, TX. 6/4/2017.
• “An Eye For Science” Freese on DPTV’s “An Uncommon Education – Celebrating 200 Years of the University of Michigan”. 3/1/2017.
• “How the Universe Works Season Five Episode 8: The Dark Matter Enigma” Freese on Discovery Science TV, aired on Science Channel. 1/31/2017.
• “Searching for the Dark Matter Particle” Freese on BBC’s Genius Behind. 12/5/2016.
• Freese on Part 8 of Swedish TV show “Vetenskapsstudion” (Science Studio). 11/9/2016.
• “Out There” Freese at TEDxVienna. 10/22/2016.
• “The Dark Side of the Universe” Freese at the New England Theoretical Cosmology and Gravity Workshop at Brown University. 9/16/2016.
• “The Big Bang – Before and After” Freese on Philosophy Talk. 8/14/2016.
• “Shedding Light on Dark Stuff: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist” Freese on TVO. 6/8/2016.
• “Shaking Up the Dark Universe: The Dark Horses of Dark Matter” Freese at the World Science Festival. 6/2/2016.
• “Katherine Freese: The Dark Side of the Universe” Freese at the Perimeter Institute. 3/2/2016.
• “How the Universe Works Season Five Episode 4, Black Holes: The Secret Origin” Freese on Discovery Science TV, aired on Science Channel. 2/6/2016.
• “Looking to the stars – the new space age” Freese on Crosstalks. 9/30/2015.
• “One theory to rule them all” Freese on The Naked Scientists. 8/24/2015.
• “The end of darkness?” Freese on The Naked Scientists. 6/2/2015.
• “Interview on Dark Stars” Freese talks to Karin Gyllenklev on P3 Institutet. 5/23/2015.
• “Magnetars: 100 trillion times more powerful than your fridge magnet” Freese on BBC World Service: The Forum. 4/21/2015.
• Freese on BBC Radio Four: Woman’s Hour. 4/17/2015.
• “The Dark Side of the Universe” at Christiania, Copenhagen, DK. 3/14/2015.
• “The Unification of Physics: The Quest for a Theory of Everything” Katherine Freese with Marcelo Gleiser and Max Tegmark, NY Academy of Sciences panel. 10/10/2014.
• Katherine Freese talks to Craig Barfoot from Pod Academy. 10/10/2014.
• Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria. 9/8/2014.
• Virtually Speaking Science hosted by Jennifer Ouellette. 8/14/2014.
• Science Insider with David Freeman: Dr. Katherine Freese. 8/11/2014.
• Freese on American Physical Society’s Physics Central. 7/2/2014.
• Katherine Freese on Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald on CBC Radio. 6/14/2014
• Podcast of Freese’s talk at The Hayden Planetarium hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. 5/15/2014
• The Groks Science Show, 6/8/2014 (podcast available on PRX and iTunes)
• Radio interview with Shelley Irwin on NPR Grand Rapids (download an mp3 of NPR interview). 5/20/2014
• Coast to Coast Radio Show (stream the interview / Coast to Coast bio of Freese). 7/15/2014
• Freese on the American Physical Society’s Physics Central Podcast. 7/2/2014
• Katherine Freese on “Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman” on the Science Channel, Season 3, Episode: “Is Nothing Really Something?” Aired July 2012

• Speaker at “New Horizons in Science 2012” “Rayleigh/Durham, NC, October 27/28, 2012”

• “The Dark Side of the Universe”
  – June 2, 2011
  – Skirball Center, NYU Please click below to read Dr. Freese’s World Science Festival Blog:  “A New Piece to the Dark Matter Puzzle – May 2011”
  • “Dark matter is attractive, and dark energy is repulsive.”
    • Katherine Freese, on the difference between the two phenomena (or was it the two sides of the panel?)
    • Instant Reaction: The Dark Side of the Universe
    • Related World Science Fesival Salon:The Mystery of Dark Matter
    • For all we understand about the universe, 96% of what’s out there still has scientists in the dark. Astronomical observations have established that familiar matter—atoms—accounts for only 4% of the weight of the cosmos. The rest—dark matter and dark energy—is invisible to our telescopes. But what really is this dark stuff? How do we know it’s there? And what does it do? From the formation of galaxies to the farthest reaches of space, it appears that darkness rules. Without dark matter and dark energy, the universe today and in the far future would be a completely different place. Join us in a discussion with leading researchers who smash together particles, dive into underground mines, and explore the edges of the known universe in search of clues to nature’s dark side.This program is a part of The Big Ideas Series, made possible with the support of the John Templeton Foundation.

• The 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: “The Theory of Everything”
  American Museum of Natural History – New York, NY
  March 7, 2011 – (Download the Podcast HERE)
  • Can the entire universe be explained with a single, unifying theory? This is perhaps the most fundamental question in all of science, and it may also be the most controversial.
  • The 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial debate, moderated by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson, featured a compelling discussion with six of the world’s leading voices on the subject: Dr. Katherine Freese, professor of physics at the University of Michigan; Dr. Jim Gates, professor of physics at the University of Maryland-College Park; Dr. Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College; Dr. Marcello Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College; Dr. Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University; and Dr. Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
  • 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate  –  “The Theory of Everything”