Kick-off of New Outreach Event Series: Astronomy on Tap Chicago
CIERA graduate students and postdocs have initiated a new event series to share astronomy news and information with the public. The inaugural gathering took...
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The Chicago Network’s Panel on Space Encourages Girls to Pursue Careers in Science & Technology
CIERA director Vicky Kalogera joined Wendy Freedman and Angela Olinto, astrophysicists from the University of Chicago, in a “Panel on Space” moderated by Adler...
“Chicago Tonight” Features CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera and Shane Larson Discussing Major Research Discovery
Chicago Tonight, a weeknight television news magazine on WTTW Channel 11 hosted by Phil Ponce, featured Vicky Kalogera and Shane Larson on February 15th....
CIERA Contributes to the Historic First Detection of Gravitational Waves
On February 11, 2016 the National Science Foundation and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that their scientists successfully, for the first time, directly...
Largest Ever Event for Graduate Student Speaker Series
Our largest ever “Graduate Student Speaker Series” event was held at Vernon Hills High School on February 9th. Over 70 students, teachers, and school...
Olivier Guyon Looks to Characterize Habitable Exoplanets: CIERA Winter Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Thanks to significant recent advances in high contrast imaging techniques, the next generation of space and ground telescopes will have the capability to image...
CIERA REU Student Eryn Cangi Wins Chambliss Medal for Research Poster at AAS
At this month’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Eryn Cangi was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award. This honor is given to...
CIERA’s Geller and Faucher-Giguère Contribute to New Study in “Nature”
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, an international research team, including Aaron Geller and Claude-André Faucher-Giguère from Northwestern-CIERA and astronomers from the Kavli...
New Monthly Night at Dearborn Observatory with CIERA Astronomers
Thank you for making 2015’s Einstein Evenings such a great success! We are happy to announce a continuation of public evening astronomy talks at...
American Astronomical Society to Lead WorldWide Telescope
The Council of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) voted to take on the leadership of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project at the AAS winter...
CIERA Grad Student Brings the Stars to Her Hometown
Northwestern & CIERA Graduate Student Niharika Sravan returned to her hometown in eastern India last week to teach a one-week winter school that introduced...
Integrated Data Science Certificate in Development at CIERA
In 2015 Northwestern was awarded one of the first National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grants in data-enabled science and engineering. This multi-million dollar...