Beverly Lowell Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Second-year CIERA graduate student Beverly Lowell was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship for the upcoming year and received the Illinois Space...
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update
The CIERA Offices on Floor 8 of 1800 Sherman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois are closed and inaccessible. CIERA researchers, educators, students, and staff are...
Danat Issa Awarded Frontera Computational Science Fellowship
CIERA graduate student Danat Issa was awarded the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship, a distinguished program that provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students...
Professor Raffaella Margutti Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international early-career researchers with...
20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory
2019 marks 20 years of superb performance by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The CXC is planning a number of events and products for the...
Experts Gather to Discuss the Circumgalactic Medium
Organized by Professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère and Postdoctoral Fellow Jonathan Stern, CIERA hosted a workshop for 50 experts on the circumgalactic medium July 30 –...
Shaping Globular Clusters with Black Holes
How many black holes lurk within the dense environments of globular clusters, and how do these powerful objects shape the properties of the cluster...
Greg Laughlin and Dan Tamayo Present CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquia
In an effort to increase our cross-discipline collaborations with researchers from many institutions in fields beyond astronomy, CIERA has begun holding talks in our...
Cosmos in Concert: Celestial Suite
On November 18, graduate student Kyle Kremer welcomed 400 astronomy and classical music enthusiasts in Pick-Staiger concert hall for Celestial Suite, a multimedia show...
Graduate Student Eve Chase Leads Data Analysis of New Gravitational Wave Detection
At 11:00pm on June 7, 2017, Eve Chase was preparing for a final exam when she received an email that LIGO, the tandem observatories...
“Black Hole Encounter” by CIERA Postdoc Aaron Geller Sweeps 2017 Scientific Images Contest
On November 2, Science in Society announced the winners of the 2017 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest. The winners were announced during an exhibition launch...
Top Telescope Access for CIERA Researchers
Northwestern is known for its strength in theoretical astrophysics, and now it is poised to lead in observational astronomy as well. CIERA recently signed...