CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Members: Wen-Fai Fong & Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Northwestern University is in the midst of an astrophysics faculty expansion plan. With last year’s arrival of Raffaella Margutti, an expert in ‘transient phenomena’...
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CIERA Prof. Raffaella Margutti Helps Discover ‘Heavy Metal’ Supernova Rocking Out
Northwestern has issued a press release, Astronomers discover ‘heavy metal’ supernova rocking out: First clear evidence of a metal-rich birthplace for a superluminous supernova, which...
CIERA Hosts Supernovae: The LSST Revolution Workshop
An international group of over 60 experts and young researchers working on all types of supernovae gathered May 31 – June 2 for Supernovae:...
CIERA to Welcome New Postdocs in Fall 2017
We are pleased to announce that the following postdoctoral researchers will join CIERA in the Fall of 2017! Cliff Johnson studies star clusters in the...
CIERA Researchers Highlight Their Expertise in Seven Minutes or Less
On March 16, 2017, CIERA graduate students Paul Williams and Michael Zevin showcased their skills in public speaking at the bi-annual event: “Seven Minutes...
News from CIERA Professor Farhad Yusef-Zadeh on Star, Planet Formation in Milky Way
Ashley Yeager from ScienceNews.org writes, “Blobs of gas near the Milky Way’s center may be just the right mass to harbor young stars and...
Supernova News from CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a press release, NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’, which begins: “We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl...
CIERA REU Students Present at 229th Meeting of the AAS
This January, nine students from CIERA’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program presented posters on their research projects at the 229th meeting of...
Four New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s new Postdoctoral Research Fellows. They bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s cutting-edge research programs....
Graduate Student Matthew Rickert Wins Reber Fellowship
Graduate student Matthew Rickert (advisor: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh) has won a Reber Fellowship from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). From the organization’s web site:...
CIERA REU Students Present at PhysCon
Valerie Becker and Eryn Cangi, students from CIERA’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, each presented research at this year’s Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon). From...
Raffaella Margutti Joins CIERA to Investigate the Biggest Explosions in Our Universe
As part of a 5-year faculty expansion initiative in the Physics & Astronomy Department, Dr. Raffaella Margutti, an expert on supernovae, has joined Northwestern...