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Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update
CIERA is following guidelines from Northwestern University and the State of Illinois in order to take all precautions to prevent the...
Students from Chicago’s Off the Street Club Visit Dearborn Observatory
CIERA staff, Board of Visitors, and graduate students organized a visit to Dearborn Observatory on the Northwestern University campus for children...
Priya Natarajan Presents 11th Annual CIERA Public Lecture
CIERA’s 11th annual public lecture was presented by award-winning author and Yale professor Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan at Cahn Auditorium on...
Dearborn Observatory on View at Open House Chicago 2019
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Dearborn Observatory participated in the fifth annual Open House Chicago festival by welcoming over 1400 visitors to...
STEM Panel Discussion Held at Lincoln Park High School
CIERA sponsored an event at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, IL where four Northwestern PhD candidates discussed a summary of...
Grad Student Zach Hafen Turns Summer Camp Students into Gas Molecules
Each July, the DuPage County NAACP hosts its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) Summer Camp at North Central College...
Lakota Stellar STEM Weekend
Emboldened by the success and informed by the challenges of the September STEM weekend for seven Bad River Ojibwe girls hosted...
You’re Invited! Humans Needed to Help Find Star Clusters
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall...
Student-led Data Expeditions with “Vault”
In high school, CIERA physics and astronomy graduate student Zachary Hafen didn’t necessarily find science interesting. Intrigued by its open-ended nature,...
Local Podcast “Inside the Skev” Explores CIERA Research & Outreach Programs
In his ‘get to know your neighbors’ podcast, real estate expert Aaron Masliansky highlights the people and organizations of the Skokie...