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 in Naperville, Illinois....
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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 by Physics &...
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 toward our galaxy,...
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, he planned to...
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 & Evanston communities....
CIERA Professor Wen-Fai Fong Interviewed by Science News
“When a pair of ultradense cores of dead stars smashed into one another, the collision shot a bright jet of charged subatomic particles through...
Y.O.U. Students Enjoy Astronomy Visit
CIERA graduate students Aprajita Hajela and Eve Chase coordinated a trip for middle school students to visit Dearborn Observatory on an afternoon field trip...
Total Lunar Eclipse Captivates on Frigid Night
A total lunar eclipse, single-digit temperatures, and tacos made for a fun Sunday night on January 20 for over 500 people who ventured out...
Shane Larson Wins Grand Prize in Instructables Optics Contest
Shane Larson won the grand prize for the Optics Contest of Instructables for his tutorial detailing the construction of a very large backyard Dobsonian...
Honorable Mention to Scotty Coughlin: LIGO Laboratory Awards for Excellence
CIERA Research Specialist Scotty Coughlin has been included in the list of honorable mentions in the inaugural (2018) LIGO Laboratory Awards for Excellence in...
Lecture by CIERA Associate Director Shane Larson Featured in ‘Astronomy’ Magazine
“On November 9, Shane Larson — a research associate professor of physics at Northwestern University and the Associate Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary...
Dearborn Observatory Welcomes 1500 Visitors During Open House Chicago
Northwestern University participated in its fourth Open House Chicago in a weekend-long event, October 13-14, 2018. Put on by the Chicago Architecture Center, the...