CIERA Summer Research Student Continues to Communicate Work
Casey Chu, an NSF REU student at CIERA during the 2015 summer, presented his summer research at a poster session for the Research Experiences...
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Dearborn Observatory Featured in Open House Chicago 2015
For the first time, the Chicago Architecture Foundation expanded their annual Open House Chicago event to include buildings in Evanston; three Northwestern buildings were...
CIERA Director Awarded Prestigious APS 2016 Bethe Prize
Dr. Vicky Kalogera, E.O. Haven Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been awarded the 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize from the American...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Elected APS Fellow
Shane Larson, Research Associate Professor and Astronomer at Adler Planetarium, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Larson’s citation commends...
2015 Midwest Relativity Meeting Hosted by CIERA
October 1 – 3, 2015, CIERA hosted the Midwest Relativity Meeting (MRM) with over 100 participants from across North America, including some of the...
CIERA Total Lunar Eclipse Party Helped Hundreds to Experience, Understand Rare Event
Despite intermittently cloudy skies, over 1,700 people joined CIERA faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students to watch the total lunar eclipse on Sunday night,...
Boy Scouts and their Families visit Dearborn Observatory as part of NU Athletics STEM & Sports Day
For the third year in a row, NU Athletics invited Boy Scouts and their families to explore the wide variety of science, technology, engineering,...
CIERA Presentations at RSG Seven Minutes of Science: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Northwestern’s RSG Program is a 10-week long course for graduate students and postdocs in various science disciplines. Through the program, these scientists learn how to effectively...
CIERA’s 2015 Summer Student Researchers
For the summer of 2015, 35 summer stundents worked closely with researchers at CIERA. Several of these students were funded through an educational grant...
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera Speaks to Office for Research Staff
On Tuesday, August 18th CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera spoke to nearly 40 Office for Research staff members at NU Knowledge at Noon, a faculty research...
CIERA Study Predicts Detection of More Merging Black Holes Than Previously Thought
CIERA’s Professor Fred Rasio, pictured far left, and Carl Rodriguez, Ph.D. student, are senior author and lead author, respectively, of an important new paper....
Immediate Opening for Graduate Student: CIERA Keck Foundation Grant
We have an immediate opening for a graduate student ready to work full time on a newly awarded W. M. Keck Foundation grant. For this...