Citations and Interviews in General Press

Gamma-Ray Bursts, Multi-Messenger and Time-Domain Astronomy:
	●	January 31, 2024	Embassy of France Social Media	Gamma-Ray Bursts: the Birth of Cosmological Black Holes
A Space Odyssey: Physics Student Rockets to Virtual Galaxy:
	●	March 8, 2023	CCAS Spotlight E-Magazine	A Space Odyssey: Physics Student Rockets to Virtual Galaxy
Faculty members incorporating virtual reality in classroom education:
	●	2022	The GW Hatchet	Faculty members incorporating virtual reality in classroom education
Large Grants Fund Innovative Research:
	●	August 2022	CCAS Spotlight	Large Grants Fund Innovative Research
NASA Space Act Agreement between Goddard Space Flight Center and GW:
	●	2021	GW Today	NASA Pact Skyrockets Astrophysics Impact
	●	2021	GW/CCAS Magazine	NASA Pact Skyrockets Astrophysics Impact
	●	2022	GW Research “The George Washington University 2022”	GW-NASA Pact Skyrockets Astrophysics Impact
	●	2022 July	GW Arts & Sciences Magazine	NASA Rockets Astrophysics Impact
A Supernova triggered by the merger of two stars:
	●	2021	Pour la Science (2021)	A Supernova triggered by the merger of two stars
	●	2021	Ouest-France (2021)	A Supernova triggered by the merger of two stars
Discovery of a Magnetar Giant Flare in the Nearby Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253):
	●	2021	GW Today	NASA Missions Unmask Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies
Fighting COVID-19:
	●	2020	The GW Hatchet	University Creates, Ships Protective Equipment to Paramedics Fighting Pandemic
The Physics Department Innovation Lab Club:
	●	2020	The GW Hatchet	Student Group to Develop Interdisciplinary Projects in Physics Innovation Lab
The Physics Department Innovation Lab:
	●	2019	GWToday	University Launches Innovation Lab to Create Interdisciplinarity Solutions
	●	2019	The GW Hatchet	Physics Department Debuts Innovation Lab to Promote Interdisciplinary Research
First Image of a Supermassive Black Hole:
	●	2019	French national radio France Inter	link (contribution starts at T0+25min, i.e., 5:25 AM)
Virtual Reality Project for Teaching:
	●	2019	GWToday	Student Innovation Shines at Research Days 2019
Meeting with the French President, Emmanuel Macron, During his State Visit in the U.S.:
	●	2018	GWToday	GW Physics Professor to Meet with President Macron
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal:
	●	2018	French embassy website	French Scientist Sylvain Guiriec Receives Prestigious NASA Award
Discovery of the Association of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Gravitational Waves:
	●	2017	GWToday	GW Researchers Contribute to Global Effort to Identify Astrophysical Event
Young Scientist Prize for Astrophysics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP):
	●	2015	IUPAP Website	link
	●	2015	University of Maryland Website	Astronomy's Sylvain Guiriec Receives Young Scientist Prize in Astrophysics - IUPAP
Similarity of Relativistic Jets Emanating from Black Holes with Masses Spreading Few Solar Masses to Millions of Solar Masses:
	●	2012	Nature press release	Study Reveals a Remarkable Symetry in Black Hole Jets
	●	2012	Innovations-report	Study Reveals a Remarkable Symetry in Black Hole Jets
Discovery of Photospheric Emission in Gamma-Ray Burst (i.e., New Born Stellar-Mass Black Holes) prompt phase:
	●	2012	Nature News	Cosmic Blasts Powered by a Hot Glow
	●	2010	Nature News	Cosmic Blasts Hint at Inner Magnetars
Limits on the Energy-Dependence of the Speed of Light (Lorentz Invariance) and Constraints on the Structure of Space at the Planck Scale:
	●	2009	New York Times	7.3 Billion Years Later, Einstein's Theory Prevails
	●	2009	Science News	Gamma-Ray Observations Shrink Known Grain Size of Spacetime