Tom Imperato ‘22P, Devoted CIERA Board of Visitors Member, Dies at 73
Tom Imperato ‘22P passed away on April 9, 2020, following a valiant battle with cancer. He was 73 years old. Tom was among the...
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NASA Hubble Fellowship Awarded to Michael Zevin
CIERA doctoral student Michael Zevin was awarded the esteemed 2020 NASA Hubble Fellowship, and will begin working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli...
Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
Just over a year ago, on 12 April 2019, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration made a detection of gravitational waves, rippling out across space-time from...
A Supernova that Outshines All Others
A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified by an international...
Earthquake Detective Featured by sustainNU in Citizen Science Project Spotlight
As part of their Virtual Earth Month celebration, each week sustainNU will highlight two new research projects on biology, climate, history, nature, social sciences,...
CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy to Utilize the Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the World
The Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the National Science Foundation has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for...
Seven New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that...
Prof. Margutti Receives NSF Honor for Junior Faculty
Congratulations to CIERA’s Raffaella Margutti, recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Margutti studies...
Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update
CIERA is following guidelines from Northwestern University and the State of Illinois in order to take all precautions to prevent the spread of the...
The Sky is No Limit
New remote observatory compresses distances to connect Evanston and Hawaii, allowing Northwestern researchers to venture boldly into space without leaving home “Northwestern astronomers have...
Proposal Workshop for New Observatory Held at CIERA
On February 6, nearly a dozen CIERA postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and faculty took part in a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Proposal Workshop...
An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got up to 50% more powerful by squeezing light
“That’s thanks to a new light-squeezing instrument that researchers installed in the experiment’s main machine: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Its Italian counterpart, Virgo,...