Two CIERA PhD Students Awarded 2025–2026 Board of Visitors Graduate Research Fellowships
CIERA is pleased to announce that PhD students Gideon McFarland and Nathalie Jones have been selected as the recipients of the 2025–2026 Board of...
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CIERA Fellows Celebrate 15 Years of Astrophysics Innovation at Fellows@15 Conference
In a vibrant celebration of collaboration and discovery, over 80 leading faculty and postdoctoral researchers from across the U.S. and Canada converged at Northwestern...
CIERA’s 2025 REU Program Prepares the Next Generation of Interdisciplinary Astrophysicists
Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) once again welcomed a cohort of promising undergraduate researchers to its prestigious National...
REACH 2025 Wraps Another Stellar Summer at CIERA
This summer, 51 high school students from across the country came together at Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)...
Code/Astro 2025: Building Software Skills for the Future of Astronomy
From August 4–8, the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University hosted the sixth annual Code/Astro Workshop. Designed to...
Three CIERA PhD Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The 2025 awardees of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) include three CIERA members: Miguel Ceja, Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas and...
Ilia Kiato Awarded Dr. John N. Nicholson Fellowship
On May 7, the Department of Physics and Astronomy announced that graduate student Ilia Kiato has been awarded a Dr. John N. Nicholson Fellowship...
CIERA Connections: CIERA alum share career paths to Adler Planetarium and Google
This spring, Laura Trouille, PhD, Vice President of Science Engagement & Visualization at Adler Planetarium, and Bharath Pattabiraman, PhD, Senior Staff Software Engineer at...
Nicole Flors Awarded DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
CIERA graduate student Nicole Flors was awarded a prestigious Computational Science Graduate Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The fellowship is designed...
CIERA researchers showcase data-driven discovery at CoDEx 2025
On April 8, 2025, Northwestern Information Technology (NUIT) hosted its annual CoDEx Symposium, a full-day event that brings together researchers from across campus to...
Nabeel Rehemtulla awarded Northwestern Presidential Fellowship
On Monday, April 21st, The Graduate School (TGS) of Northwestern University announced that Nabeel Rehemtulla was one of only eight students awarded a Presidential...
Postdoc Sanaea Rose named to second cohort of RCSA fellows
On April 11, 2025, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) announced its second cohort of RCSA Fellows, including CIERA Lindheimer Fellow Sanaea Cooper...