Graduate Student Fani Dosopoulou Receives Holt Award
The Graduate School of Northwestern University has selected Fani Dosopoulou to receive the Holt Award. Named in honor of Helen Froelich Holt ’34, ‘38MS,...
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Astronomy Students Awarded Best Senior Thesis
Congratulations to undergraduates Rebecca Diesing and Charles “Chase” Kimball, who jointly won the Department of Physics & Astronomy prize for best senior thesis, 2017....
CIERA Postdocs Advance to New Positions
Laura Sampson has moved to a postdoctoral position at Penn State at the Center for Infectious Disease...
Chicago Woman Magazine Features CIERA Director Prof. Kalogera
On May 5, 2017, CIERA Director, Vicky Kalogera was featured in Chicago Woman magazine’s “Women in STEM” column. Kalogera’s interview discussed her involvement with the LIGO...
CIERA Director Prof. Kalogera Receives Walder Award for Research Excellence
Vicky Kalogera has been honored as the winner of the 2017 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence. This award is...
Prof. Faucher-Giguère Receives NSF Honor for Young Faculty
Congratulations to CIERA’s Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Faucher-Giguère, who...
Rocco Coppejans Joins CIERA’s Mel Ulmer to Work on Mirrors in Space
Postdoctoral researcher Rocco Coppejans has joined CIERA to work with Professor Mel Ulmer on developing new techniques to correct the shapes of mirrors, in space, using...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Features Gravity Spy Article by Mike Zevin
The tenth issue of LIGO Magazine is now available for download. This issue focuses on LIGO’s second observation run, “O2”. In “Getting ready for O2: A data...
CIERA Professor Giles Novak Joins ALMA Science Advisory Committee
Professor Giles Novak has been appointed as a member of the ALMA Science Advisory Committee (ASAC). ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter-Submillimeter Array, is located...
Graduate Student Katie Breivik Wins Chambliss Honorable Mention for Research Poster at AAS
At the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), graduate student Katie Breivik was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, Honorable Mention....
CIERA Postdoctoral Alum Laura Fissel Presents Plenary Talk at AAS229
Laura Fissel, a CIERA postdoctoral fellow (2013-2016) and current Jansky fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory-Charlottesville, was invited to give a plenary talk...
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...