Postdoctoral Fellow Mike Grudić Awarded NASA Hubble Fellowship
NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The NHFP is one of the highlights of NASA’s pursuit...
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Vicky Kalogera Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Six members of the Northwestern University faculty have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest...
NSF Graduate Fellowships Awarded to Astronomy Students
The National Science Foundation has awarded two prestigious graduate fellowships (Nick Kaaz and Maura Lally) as well as two honorable mentions (Miguel Martinez and...
American Physical Society Elects Professors Margutti and Larson to Committees
Congratulations to Raffaella Margutti on her election as member-at-large to the Executive Committee of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and...
Vicky Kalogera Named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Features Gravitational Wave Article by Eve Chase
The 18th issue (March 2021) of LIGO Magazine is available for download: https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue18.pdf In this issue, CIERA’s Eve Chase and Caitlin Rose (University of...
Prof. Fong Receives NSF Honor for Young Faculty
Professor Wen-fai Fong has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for...
Welcome New CIERA Postdoctoral Researchers
We are pleased to announce the following postdoctoral researchers joining CIERA this summer and fall, 2021. Welcome! CIERA Postdoctoral Fellows Tarraneh Eftekhari (Harvard) joins...
Major Award for Gravitational Wave Researcher Christopher Berry
Dr. Christopher Berry, a research professor at Northwestern and lecturer at the University of Glasgow, has been named this year’s recipient of a Young...
Faucher-Giguère Named Highly Cited Researcher for Second Year
Associate Professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère was included in the Space Science category of the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 List by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list...
André de Gouvêa Selected as 2020 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations André de Gouvêa for his selection as 2020 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). de Gouvêa has been...
Supercomputing Time Awarded for Third Year to Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy has been granted a 2021 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award for his proposal, “Simulating Collapsar...