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...
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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...
CIERA Undergraduate Researcher Accepted to Ph.D. Programs
ISP undergraduate student Shyam Bharadwaj, who did research on cosmological simulations of galaxy formation in the CIERA research group of Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, was accepted...
Astronomy Club of the College of DuPage Visits CIERA
Postdoctoral Fellow Aaron Geller hosted a group of students from the Astronomy Club of the College of DuPage on July 10. The group is...
CIERA Shares with Local Children: Solar Observing and Careers in Astrophysics
CIERA graduate students hosted two groups of gifted young people as part of the 2015 Opportunities for the Future conference offered by Northwestern University’s Center for...
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards
CIERA is pleased to announce the following awards: Summer Undergraduate Research Grant Recipients Funded by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Jessie Duncan, Anya...
CIERA Fellow Geller Wins First Prize in Data Visualization Challenge
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Aaron Geller won first place in the proposals division of the 2015 Northwestern Data Visualization Challenge, with his interactive visualization exploring stellar evolution....