Graduate Student Makes Cosmic Music
During his undergraduate career at Northwestern, Kyle Kremer combined his love of the planets and music into a dual physics and trumpet degree. Now...
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IDEAS Visits Capitol Hill: Attends Future STEM Leaders Conference
Earlier this month Lois Trautvetter and Michelle Paulsen attended the NRT Teams Annual Meeting 2016, and Future STEM Leaders Conference in Washington DC. The events, both co-sponsored...
CIERA Researcher Brings The Galaxy to the Classroom
When graduate student Katie Breivik isn’t doing research about gravitational waves, she’s lending her science research skills to the classroom. This spring at the...
CIERA Contributes to Northwestern’s Computational Research Day
To celebrate and highlight advanced research computing at Northwestern, the third annual Computational Research Day was held on April 19th. Highlights of the day...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel Wins Prestigious Jansky Fellowship
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel will be leaving Chicago for Virginia next year, as one of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO’s) Jansky fellows....
Largest Ever Event for Graduate Student Speaker Series
Our largest ever “Graduate Student Speaker Series” event was held at Vernon Hills High School on February 9th. Over 70 students, teachers, and school...
CIERA REU Student Eryn Cangi Wins Chambliss Medal for Research Poster at AAS
At this month’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Eryn Cangi was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award. This honor is given to...
CIERA Grad Student Brings the Stars to Her Hometown
Northwestern & CIERA Graduate Student Niharika Sravan returned to her hometown in eastern India last week to teach a one-week winter school that introduced...
CIERA Graduate Students Speak at Local High School’s Women in STEM Event
On September 22, CIERA’s Katie Breivik, Maggie Morscher, and Niharika Sravan (pictured left to right) were invited by physics teacher Katie Page to speak...
Boy Scouts and their Families visit Dearborn Observatory as part of NU Athletics STEM & Sports Day
For the third year in a row, NU Athletics invited Boy Scouts and their families to explore the wide variety of science, technology, engineering,...
CIERA Presentations at RSG Seven Minutes of Science: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Northwestern’s RSG Program is a 10-week long course for graduate students and postdocs in various science disciplines. Through the program, these scientists learn how to effectively...
CIERA’s 2015 Summer Student Researchers
For the summer of 2015, 35 summer stundents worked closely with researchers at CIERA. Several of these students were funded through an educational grant...