CIERA’s Shane Larson Joins 2015-2016 WCAS Seminar Series for Staff
Each year, staff members from Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences organize a series of faculty talks given especially for staff. This allows...
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CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera to Join National Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera has accepted an invitation to serve on the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) of the National Research Council. The...
CIERA Researchers Geller, Hwang and Rasio Win Award for “Capturing the Beauty of Science”, in the 2015 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest
Northwestern University’s Science in Society holds an annual competition to find the most beautiful science images from researchers all over campus. Entries to this fifth year...
Dennis Lehmkuhl Shares the History of Einstein’s Discoveries at CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Colloquium
We are often told that General Relativity tells us that the gravitational field is nothing but an aspect of spacetime structure: gravitation supposedly is...
Stargazing with Local Dads and Daughters Outdoors Group
On November 10th, graduate student Katie Breivik led a stargazing activity for about twenty girls, ages 6-12, in Lake Forest, IL. The girls are...
CIERA’s Michelle Paulsen and Katie Breivik Meet U.S. Congressman Bob Dold
Michelle Paulsen, Program Director of Reach for the Stars, IDEAS, and RSG Research Communication Program, and graduate student Katie Breivik, met U.S. congressman Bob Dold on Monday, November 10th....
CIERA Seventh Annual Public Lecture: New Horizons Leader Alan Stern
New Horizons is NASA’s historic mission to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, the New Horizons left...
CIERA Director Elected to LSSTC ExecBoard
Dr. Vicky Kalogera, E.O. Haven Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been elected to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation’s...
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...
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...