CIERA Graduate Students Demonstrate Their Expertise in Seven Minutes or Less
On September 13, 2016, CIERA graduate students Katie Breivik and Sam Hadden showcased their skills in public speaking at an event entitled “Seven Minutes...
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Dearborn Observatory and CIERA Contribute to NU STEM & Sports Outreach Event
Every year, Northwestern University Athletics organizes an NU STEM & Sports Day: as part of Saturday pre-game activities, they invite Scouts and their families...
CIERA’s Fellows at the Frontiers 2016: Astronomy Research on the Cutting-edge
Forty invited postdoctoral fellows gathered from around the U.S. and Canada from August 31 – September 2 for CIERA’s Fellows at the Frontiers 2016...
Raffaella Margutti Joins CIERA to Investigate the Biggest Explosions in Our Universe
As part of a 5-year faculty expansion initiative in the Physics & Astronomy Department, Dr. Raffaella Margutti, an expert on supernovae, has joined Northwestern...
CIERA Hosts GNOME Data Analysis Bootcamp
In mid-August, CIERA welcomed ten researchers from a variety of institutions for a three-day bootcamp for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic...
REU Poster Session Celebrates Hard Work with Sweet Rewards
CIERA’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program provides students with the chance to pursue an astrophysics-based interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with Northwestern faculty. This year, nine...
NASA Illinois Space Grant Recipients Present Their Summer Research Projects
On August 4th, 2016 CIERA’s ISG summer researchers presented their findings to a group of faculty and peers. The Illinois Space Grant (ISG) is an...
CIERA’s 2016 Summer Student Researchers
For the summer of 2016, 39 summer students worked closely with researchers at CIERA. Several of these students were funded through an educational grant...
CIERA Hosts Inaugural Cohort of New LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program
With a new generation of ground and space-based surveys generating petabytes of data per year, together with the increasing complexity of data coming from...
Physics and Astronomy Department Rising in Impact and Visibility
Over the last 15 years, Northwestern’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has emerged as a force in the field, with new researchers pushing innovative...
The Legacy of Scientific Discovery – by Mike Zevin, LIGO Graduate Student
On the morning of February 11th 2016, people around the world congregated in conference rooms to watch a press conference that would change the...
CIERA Students Awarded Funding for Summer Research and Illinois Space Grant Projects
CIERA is pleased to announce the following awards: Summer Undergraduate Research Grant Recipients: Newlin Weatherford: (Advisor: Vicky Kalogera) Slobodan...