Kristopher Mortensen, a 2020 graduate from Weinberg in Physics & Astronomy, was recognized with an Outstanding Thesis Research Undergraduate Award from the Undergraduate Curriculum...
Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy Aggarwal has won the 2019 GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize for her thesis “A room temperature optomechanical squeezer.” Nancy received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts...
Free and open to any graduate student, SCOPE is an NSF-funded online science communication program designed for graduate students without access to in person...
In the strongest possible terms, we condemn systemic and institutionalized racism, violence against the Black community, and police brutality. We are actively working to...
Vicky Kalogera is one of six women leaders from Northwestern University in the field of science, technology, engineering and math to be included in...
Three CIERA Postdocs Win NSF Fellowships for Scientific & Educational Programs CIERA postdoctoral researchers Kyle Kremer, Patrick Sheehan, and Sarah Wellons have each won...
Over the course of last summer, the Reach for the Stars program teamed up with educators across the country to revise hundreds of lesson...
The National Science Foundation has awarded a new 3-year grant to Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller, who has directed CIERA’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)...
Artist’s illustration comparing FBOTs to normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF ‘A new beast is out there,’ researcher says of object...
Image Credit: Igor Sokalski Getty Images At least 3,700 years ago, Babylonian mathematicians approximated the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. They...
CIERA researcher Kate Alexander is featured in Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties” for 2020. She earned a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard...
Northwestern University undergraduate Andrew Bowen was awarded a 2020 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for his poster presentation at the 235th American Astronomical Society...
