In the Media
June 2023. Interviewed by Mark Rivera for ABC 7 Chicago's 5pm News' coverage of the Explorers Club's connections to the loss of the Titan submersible.
March 2023. Interviewed by Veruska De Vita for an article entitled “What astronauts and astronomers say about living in space,” South African Sunday Times.
March 2023. Interviewed by Luis Henao for an Associated Press article titled, "Why the religious fast for Ramadan, Lent and other holy days," published in various outlets.
November 2022. Interviewed for the podcast Humans of Space by journalist Niamh Shaw.
October 2022. Interviewed by Jessica Camille Aguirre for an article entitled “The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism,” AFAR Magazine.
August 2022. Interviewed by Melissa Truth Miller for an article entitled “Ewoks: Stewards of the Forest Moon,” Star Wars Insider Magazine, Issue 212.
August 2022. Participated in a panel called "Returning to the Moon" for the BBC Radio Ulster program Sunday Sequence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bgxf.
July 2022. Interviewed for a segment on the psychological impact of the Overview Effect for the PBS television series Behind the Wings, Season 4, episode 1, "Early Space Exploration."
July 2022. Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, "NASA Webb telescope photos showing the sometimes emotionally overwhelming vastness of space: GVSU anthropologist."
October 2021. Featured in German radio segment on Deutschlandfunk Kulture, "Schauen Wie Gott Auf Die Schöpfung - Der Blick Aus Dem All Auf Die Erde - Und Was Er Auslöst." https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schauen-wie-gott-auf-die-schoepfung-der-blick-aus-dem-all.976.de.html?dram:article_id=504697&fbclid=IwAR2bn4w3LjFCi74bx-PVj7PWR-Kpus0tTkCD6ah1SdpnXY8tsockI1vdcms.
October 2021. Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, "Shatner's Unfiltered, Emotional Reaction to Space Flight Offers Fresh Perspective on How Humans React, According to GVSU Researcher."
October 2020. Interviewed by David Livingston of The Space Show on the topic of the Overview Effect and the Ultraview Effect https://www.thespaceshow.com/show/16-oct-2020/broadcast-3590-dr.-deana-weibel
October 2020. Interviewed for a segment on “Awe and Wonder” for the British radio program Voice of Islam Drive Time Show. https://soundcloud.com/voislam/drive-time-show-podcast-15-10
May 2020. Interviewed (along with my husband Glen Swanson) for an article by Gregg Krupa in The Detroit News https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2020/05/18/space-mission-research-isolation-coronavirus/2998010001/?fbclid=IwAR2SyV_OPmal4zbNBdzeRYqTh36Zdcar-EY5s16lExqM1pwCjik49wAuKm0
May 2020: "Minute at the Mic" appearance as a member of The Explorers Club on their social media pages:
https://www.facebook.com/TheExplorersClubNYC/videos/1367861433419294/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAN7wPhBwQ0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1261355890164338698?s=20
April 2020. Appeared as a guest on the Space Show (interviewed by Dr. David Livingston) https://thespaceshow.com/show/24-apr-2020/broadcast-3499-dr.-deana-weibel
April 2020. Interviewed by WJJ's Beth Fisher about astronauts, isolation, and the Coronavirus
https://twitter.com/BethFisherWWJ/status/1247144958689193984?s=20&fbclid=IwAR0JPj0wZ9MiDiCeBORq8s6lel1WtZuwO-kEdWPbCIkfdS6sT-MC9o4WEIQ
February 2020. Appeared on WOODtv’s eightWest program to promote Roger That! 2020.
February 2020. Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, “Messages planned by Roger That! speakers: vastness of space, elements of life, joy of discovery.”
July 2019. Interviewed by Patrick Center of WGVU News for an article entitled, "GVSU professor studies space travel's impact on spirituality". https://www.wgvunews.org/post/gvsu-professor-studies-space-travels-impact-spirituality
July 2019 . Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, "GVSU Professor: Space exploration and religion have a long shared history". https://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/2019/gvsu-professor-space-exploration-and-religion-have-a-11129.htm
July 2019. Interviewed by Shelley Irwin on the topics of space, religion and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing for the WGVU Morning Show. https://www.wgvunews.org/post/deana-weibel
July 2019. Interview (along with Glen Swanson) on WKTV's "The Whole Picture Podcast," https://www.wktvjournal.org/podcast/the-whole-picture-podcast/?fbclid=IwAR2XSufIbxgA-fJN-80RfTkhBWU5h0xa6Ex3cSotsM0gd9ZuZRyaI4PhfAU
July 2019. “Spirituality and Space Travel”: Interviews about religion and NASA’s Apollo program by Fred Stella, “Common Threads,” WGVU. https://www.wgvunews.org/post/spirituality-and-space-travel and https://www.wgvunews.org/post/spirituality-and-space-travel-part-ii
February 2019. Appeared on WXMI’s Morning Mix television program to promote Roger That! 2019.
August 2018. Interviewed by Marina Koren for an article in The Atlantic, “Mike Pence’s Outer-Space Gospel” about the use of religious language by Vice President Pence and others when discussing the proposed “Space Force” and the American presence in space as well as religiosity in the American space program overall. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/mike-pence-nasa-faith-religion/568255/
February 8, 2018. Interview about the Roger That! event by Jennifer Moss, WGVU. http://www.wgvunews.org/post/conference-features-first-african-american-astronaut-travel-space
February 2018. Appeared on WXMI’s Morning Mix program to promote Roger That! 2018.
February 2017. Interviewed by James Kilborn for an article in the Grand Valley State University newspaper The Lanthorn, “GVSU partnering with GRPM to celebrate space exploration” about Roger That! 2018. http://lanthorn.com/57054/news/news-second-roger-chaffee-conference/
January 2017. Interviewed by Teresa Guerrero Fernández for an article in the Madrid, Spain-based newspaper El Mundo, “Las Mujeres Que Ayudaron A Pisar La Luna,” about the experiences of female NASA astronauts and other employees, astronauts’ wives, and the movie “Hidden Figures.”
https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2017/01/21/5880b860e5fdea8a688b45fb.html
January 20, 2017. Interview about the Roger That! event (along with Samhita Rhodes and Kate Moore) by Shelly Irwin, WGVU. http://wgvunews.org/post/roger.
January 20, 2017. Interview about the Roger That! event (along with Kate Moore) by Jennifer Moss, WGVU, http://wgvunews.org/post/upcoming-symposium-honor-roger-b-chaffee.
January 20, 2017. Interview about the Roger That! event by James Gemmell, WJRW, https://clyp.it/u4m3frag.
Fall 2013. Interviewed about pedagogy for the article "Designing and Implementing an Integrative, Collaborate, Problem-Solving-Based General Education Capstone" by C. B. Griffin and Wendy Burns-Ardolino for the Capstones and Integrative Learning issue of PeerReview, Fall 2013, Vol. 15, No. 4.
October 2009. Interviewed by Jim Hayden for an article in the Holland Sentinal, “Spooked: Local Haunts for a chilly thrill” about ghosts in cross-cultural belief systems.
June 2007. Appeared on WMMT, Channel 3 and nationally as contestant on Jeopardy! game show (One appearance, 2nd place finish).
June 2007. Interviewed on WZZM, Channel 13 about appearance on Jeopardy! game show.
October 2007. Interviewed by Angel Diaz for an article in the Madrid, Spain-based newspaper El Mundo, “Todo listo para el Ramadán cósmico,” about religious beliefs held by and rituals performed by astronauts and cosmonauts.
June 2007. Various interviews in Grand Rapids Press, Grand Haven Tribune, GVNow, and the GVSU Lanthorn about appearance on Jeopardy! game show.
November 2004. Interviewed by John Flesher for internationally distributed Associated Press article, “Outdoor Shrine Inspires Worshippers” about pilgrimage to the Cross in the Woods shrine, Indian River, Michigan.
May 2005. Interviewed (along with Mark Schwartz) for “The Morning Show,” hosted by Shelley Irwin, WGVU.
October 2004. Interviewed for “Common Threads,” hosted by Fred Stella, WGVU.
March 2023. Interviewed by Luis Henao for an Associated Press article titled, "Why the religious fast for Ramadan, Lent and other holy days," published in various outlets.
November 2022. Interviewed for the podcast Humans of Space by journalist Niamh Shaw.
October 2022. Interviewed by Jessica Camille Aguirre for an article entitled “The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism,” AFAR Magazine.
August 2022. Interviewed by Melissa Truth Miller for an article entitled “Ewoks: Stewards of the Forest Moon,” Star Wars Insider Magazine, Issue 212.
August 2022. Participated in a panel called "Returning to the Moon" for the BBC Radio Ulster program Sunday Sequence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bgxf.
July 2022. Interviewed for a segment on the psychological impact of the Overview Effect for the PBS television series Behind the Wings, Season 4, episode 1, "Early Space Exploration."
July 2022. Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, "NASA Webb telescope photos showing the sometimes emotionally overwhelming vastness of space: GVSU anthropologist."
October 2021. Featured in German radio segment on Deutschlandfunk Kulture, "Schauen Wie Gott Auf Die Schöpfung - Der Blick Aus Dem All Auf Die Erde - Und Was Er Auslöst." https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schauen-wie-gott-auf-die-schoepfung-der-blick-aus-dem-all.976.de.html?dram:article_id=504697&fbclid=IwAR2bn4w3LjFCi74bx-PVj7PWR-Kpus0tTkCD6ah1SdpnXY8tsockI1vdcms.
October 2021. Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, "Shatner's Unfiltered, Emotional Reaction to Space Flight Offers Fresh Perspective on How Humans React, According to GVSU Researcher."
October 2020. Interviewed by David Livingston of The Space Show on the topic of the Overview Effect and the Ultraview Effect https://www.thespaceshow.com/show/16-oct-2020/broadcast-3590-dr.-deana-weibel
October 2020. Interviewed for a segment on “Awe and Wonder” for the British radio program Voice of Islam Drive Time Show. https://soundcloud.com/voislam/drive-time-show-podcast-15-10
May 2020. Interviewed (along with my husband Glen Swanson) for an article by Gregg Krupa in The Detroit News https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2020/05/18/space-mission-research-isolation-coronavirus/2998010001/?fbclid=IwAR2SyV_OPmal4zbNBdzeRYqTh36Zdcar-EY5s16lExqM1pwCjik49wAuKm0
May 2020: "Minute at the Mic" appearance as a member of The Explorers Club on their social media pages:
https://www.facebook.com/TheExplorersClubNYC/videos/1367861433419294/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAN7wPhBwQ0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1261355890164338698?s=20
April 2020. Appeared as a guest on the Space Show (interviewed by Dr. David Livingston) https://thespaceshow.com/show/24-apr-2020/broadcast-3499-dr.-deana-weibel
April 2020. Interviewed by WJJ's Beth Fisher about astronauts, isolation, and the Coronavirus
https://twitter.com/BethFisherWWJ/status/1247144958689193984?s=20&fbclid=IwAR0JPj0wZ9MiDiCeBORq8s6lel1WtZuwO-kEdWPbCIkfdS6sT-MC9o4WEIQ
February 2020. Appeared on WOODtv’s eightWest program to promote Roger That! 2020.
February 2020. Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, “Messages planned by Roger That! speakers: vastness of space, elements of life, joy of discovery.”
July 2019. Interviewed by Patrick Center of WGVU News for an article entitled, "GVSU professor studies space travel's impact on spirituality". https://www.wgvunews.org/post/gvsu-professor-studies-space-travels-impact-spirituality
July 2019 . Interviewed by Peg West for an article entitled, "GVSU Professor: Space exploration and religion have a long shared history". https://www.gvsu.edu/gvnow/2019/gvsu-professor-space-exploration-and-religion-have-a-11129.htm
July 2019. Interviewed by Shelley Irwin on the topics of space, religion and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing for the WGVU Morning Show. https://www.wgvunews.org/post/deana-weibel
July 2019. Interview (along with Glen Swanson) on WKTV's "The Whole Picture Podcast," https://www.wktvjournal.org/podcast/the-whole-picture-podcast/?fbclid=IwAR2XSufIbxgA-fJN-80RfTkhBWU5h0xa6Ex3cSotsM0gd9ZuZRyaI4PhfAU
July 2019. “Spirituality and Space Travel”: Interviews about religion and NASA’s Apollo program by Fred Stella, “Common Threads,” WGVU. https://www.wgvunews.org/post/spirituality-and-space-travel and https://www.wgvunews.org/post/spirituality-and-space-travel-part-ii
February 2019. Appeared on WXMI’s Morning Mix television program to promote Roger That! 2019.
August 2018. Interviewed by Marina Koren for an article in The Atlantic, “Mike Pence’s Outer-Space Gospel” about the use of religious language by Vice President Pence and others when discussing the proposed “Space Force” and the American presence in space as well as religiosity in the American space program overall. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/mike-pence-nasa-faith-religion/568255/
February 8, 2018. Interview about the Roger That! event by Jennifer Moss, WGVU. http://www.wgvunews.org/post/conference-features-first-african-american-astronaut-travel-space
February 2018. Appeared on WXMI’s Morning Mix program to promote Roger That! 2018.
February 2017. Interviewed by James Kilborn for an article in the Grand Valley State University newspaper The Lanthorn, “GVSU partnering with GRPM to celebrate space exploration” about Roger That! 2018. http://lanthorn.com/57054/news/news-second-roger-chaffee-conference/
January 2017. Interviewed by Teresa Guerrero Fernández for an article in the Madrid, Spain-based newspaper El Mundo, “Las Mujeres Que Ayudaron A Pisar La Luna,” about the experiences of female NASA astronauts and other employees, astronauts’ wives, and the movie “Hidden Figures.”
https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2017/01/21/5880b860e5fdea8a688b45fb.html
January 20, 2017. Interview about the Roger That! event (along with Samhita Rhodes and Kate Moore) by Shelly Irwin, WGVU. http://wgvunews.org/post/roger.
January 20, 2017. Interview about the Roger That! event (along with Kate Moore) by Jennifer Moss, WGVU, http://wgvunews.org/post/upcoming-symposium-honor-roger-b-chaffee.
January 20, 2017. Interview about the Roger That! event by James Gemmell, WJRW, https://clyp.it/u4m3frag.
Fall 2013. Interviewed about pedagogy for the article "Designing and Implementing an Integrative, Collaborate, Problem-Solving-Based General Education Capstone" by C. B. Griffin and Wendy Burns-Ardolino for the Capstones and Integrative Learning issue of PeerReview, Fall 2013, Vol. 15, No. 4.
October 2009. Interviewed by Jim Hayden for an article in the Holland Sentinal, “Spooked: Local Haunts for a chilly thrill” about ghosts in cross-cultural belief systems.
June 2007. Appeared on WMMT, Channel 3 and nationally as contestant on Jeopardy! game show (One appearance, 2nd place finish).
June 2007. Interviewed on WZZM, Channel 13 about appearance on Jeopardy! game show.
October 2007. Interviewed by Angel Diaz for an article in the Madrid, Spain-based newspaper El Mundo, “Todo listo para el Ramadán cósmico,” about religious beliefs held by and rituals performed by astronauts and cosmonauts.
June 2007. Various interviews in Grand Rapids Press, Grand Haven Tribune, GVNow, and the GVSU Lanthorn about appearance on Jeopardy! game show.
November 2004. Interviewed by John Flesher for internationally distributed Associated Press article, “Outdoor Shrine Inspires Worshippers” about pilgrimage to the Cross in the Woods shrine, Indian River, Michigan.
May 2005. Interviewed (along with Mark Schwartz) for “The Morning Show,” hosted by Shelley Irwin, WGVU.
October 2004. Interviewed for “Common Threads,” hosted by Fred Stella, WGVU.