Rutgers University Astrophysics Colloquium

Adventures of a Media Dinosaur in the New World Confessions of the Cosmic Affairs Correspondent

Dennis Overbye has written the Out There column for the New York Times for the last 25 years. writing has appeared in various magazines like Time, Discover, Wired, Sky & Telescope among others, and won awards from the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics and the National Book Critics Circle.
He is the author of two books, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, the Scientific Search for the Secret of the Universe (HarperCollins 1991, and Little Brown 1999) and Einstein in Love, a Scientific Romance (Viking Penguin 2000).
He retired from fulltime work at the Times in 2024. He lives in Manhattan with his wife the retired journalist and editor Nancy Wartik.

Date & Time

April 16, 2024 | 3:30pm – 4:30pm

Location

330W, Rutgers and Zoom

Speakers

Dennis Overbye, New York Times (ret.)