Professor Mel Ulmer Discusses Geoengineering at AAS229
Mel Ulmer was invited to join a special session of the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) this January, chaired by James...
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Year-in-Review Honors for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Year-in-Review Honors for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration In December, several prestigious honors were announced for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the team of scientists and...
Graduate Student Katie Breivik’s Paper Featured on AAS Nova
Graduate student Katie Breivik’s work has been featured on the site AASNova.org, which highlights some of the most interesting recent results being published in the...
Gravity Spy: The New Gravitational-Wave Project Using Citizen Science
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, is the most sensitive and complex gravitational experiment ever created. When researchers look at the information LIGO receives...
CIERA’s Laura Sampson Wins L’Oréal USA 2016 For Women in Science Fellowship
CIERA postdoctoral fellow Laura Sampson is among five female scientists honored with the 2016 For Women in Science Fellowship from L’Oréal USA. The program...
The Legacy of Scientific Discovery – by Mike Zevin, LIGO Graduate Student
On the morning of February 11th 2016, people around the world congregated in conference rooms to watch a press conference that would change the...
LIGO Team Announces Second Gravitational-Wave Event
The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and...
‘Mosh Pits’ in Star Clusters a Likely Source of LIGO’s First Black Holes
In a new study, CIERA astrophysics show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic merger of two massive black holes detected Sept....
Solar System Symphony Melds Music with Astronomy
A Northwestern University graduate student is combining his love of music and astronomy to stage a solar system-inspired concert. Continue to full article on...
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera Speaks at (En)Lightning Talks Chicago
Emceed by WBEZ’s Nerdette Podcast hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnson, five of Chicago’s Arts and Sciences experts got just five minutes to spark...
See The Planets Of Our Solar System While Listening To ‘The Planets’
You may have heard (or at least heard of) ‘The Planets,’ a seven-part suite of music by Gustav Holst. If you haven’t, a new...
CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera Named a “Top Ten Northwestern Professor” by College Magazine
Dr. Kalogera’s leadership in the recent first detection of gravitational waves was cited as one of the reasons students view her as a top...