Natalie Wolchover

This July, 18 aspiring and early-career science journalists from all over the U.S., as well as Canada, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Nigeria, and the Philippines converged on campus for an intensive workshop led by past IAS Director's Visitors Natalie Wolchover and Siobhan Roberts. 

"The staff of Quanta Magazine, notably senior editor [and 2017 IAS Director's Visitor] Natalie Wolchover, have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory writing 'for coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research.'"

“Paleontologists infer the existence of dinosaurs to give a rational accounting of strange patterns of bones,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist and cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. “We look at patterns in...

Writing for the New Yorker, Director's Visitor (2017) Natalie Wolchover discusses the puzzles and paradoxes of contemporary science that point to "the need to reformulate the theories of modern physics in a new mathematical language," highlighting...

“Statistics is a way of analyzing data and discovering the inner hidden secrets being concealed by the data,” says Donald Richards, former Member in the School of Mathematics. “Can we find patterns that tell us that climate change is underway? Can...