CIERA rings Cboe opening bell, returns as NASA Space Apps Chicago partner
Over the weekend of October 5 and 6, 2024, the Chicago chapter of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge returned for its second year,...
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Prof Allison Strom receives Packard Fellowship
Award honors the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists Northwestern University astrophysicist Allison Strom has received a 2024 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile...
CIERA postdocs advance to new positions
Congratulations to Vishal Baibhav, Sharan Banagiri, Peter Blanchard, Sarah Blunt, Deepika Bollimpalli, Goni Halevi, Jonatan Jacquemin Ide, and Nastasha Wijers – CIERA’s newest postdoctoral...
Northwestern to lead $20 million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million...
Prof Adam Miller receives DOE Early Career Award
Adam Miller will use the funding to explore the explosions of white dwarf stars Northwestern University astrophysicist Adam A. Miller has received a 2024 Early Career...
Celebrating women leaders in space and music with Ravinia Festival
At the end of July 2024, the renowned Ravinia Festival held this year’s installment of its annual Breaking Barriers Festival. The Breaking Barriers Festival is...
How we could warm Mars
A new idea among a rich history of proposals to make the surface of the cold planet habitable Ever since learning the surface of...
Fifth Code/Astro workshop cultivates open-source software engineering skills
From July 15 to 19, 2024, CIERA Professor Jason Wang and Postdoctoral Fellow Sarah Blunt led the fifth Code/Astro workshop, the second of the...
Introducing CROCS: bringing space science to Chicago-area classrooms
In early 2024, CIERA launched a new K-12 education and outreach initiative: CROCS! An acronym for CIERA REACHes Out to Chicago Schools, the free...
Prof Wen-fai Fong honored with Steward Observatory’s 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize
This year, the 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize recognizes Northwestern University professor Wen-fai Fong for her pioneering, multi-wavelength observations characterizing fast transients and the galaxy environments that host them....
CIERA Astronomer Evenings bring astronomy education to the public
Article by Nineth Kanieski Koso for The Daily Northwestern. Every Friday evening, Northwestern’s Dearborn Observatory holds free “Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory” where the...
Jillian Rastinejad awarded Northwestern Presidential Fellowship
The Graduate School (TGS) of Northwestern University announced that Jillian Rastinejad was one of only seven people awarded the Presidential Fellowship for 2024. Funded...