CIERA researchers named as NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) continues to support top early-career astrophysicists, awarding 24 new fellowships in its competitive 2025 class. This program allows...
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Fourteen new postdocs to join CIERA
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are delighted to announce fourteen postdocs will be joining the CIERA community in fall 2025. Please join us in...
CIERA hosts first LS4 collaboration meeting
From March 5–8, 2025, CIERA hosted the inaugural La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4) Team Meeting, bringing together over 50 researchers from across the...
Prof. Vicky Kalogera named Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
In March 2025, The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation announced its newest elected members, including CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera. As the ISGRG...
First radio pulses traced to dead-star binary
White dwarf and red dwarf bump together to emit a radio blast every two hours An international team of astronomers, including a Northwestern University...
Postdoc Sylvia Biscoveanu wins GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize
In late February 2025, the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) and the Friends of Stefano Braccini announced CIERA Postdoctoral Researcher Sylvia Biscoveanu as the...
Profs Allison Strom and Adam Miller receive inaugural RCSA Scialog awards
On February 20, 2025, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) announced the award recipients in the first year of Scialog: Early Science with the...
Flickers and flares: Milky Way’s central black hole constantly bubbles with light
JWST reveals ongoing, rapid-fire light show The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party —...
Prof. Jason Wang and CIERA postdoctoral alum named Sloan Research Fellows
Northwestern University, along with MIT, has the most faculty in the 2025 cohort Seven Northwestern faculty members, including CIERA Prof. Jason Wang and CIERA...
A cosmic love story
Black holes’ spins align in a Valentine’s embrace Northwestern astrophysicists discovered that binary black holes — when formed in crowded clusters of stars —...
Prof. Adam Miller receives Cottrell Scholar Award
He will use the teacher-scholar award to study white dwarf supernovae Northwestern University astrophysicist Adam Miller has received a 2025 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research...
REU students present at 245th AAS, Jessica Cotturone wins Chambliss
Part of CIERA’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program includes support for participating students to travel to the annual winter meeting of the American...