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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Graduate Student Zachary Hafen Wins Award in the 2016 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest
Northwestern’s Science in Society holds an annual competition to find the most beautiful scientific images from researchers all over campus. Entries to this sixth year of...
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...
Gravitational Waves Detection Featured in Holiday Greeting to Northwestern Alumni
This year, Northwestern President Schapiro and Mimi Schapiro sent a year-in-review video to alumni and others on behalf of Northwestern and the Northwestern Alumni...
Audio Series on Northwestern Couples Features Vicky Kalogera and Fred Rasio
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera and her spouse, Fred Rasio, are both faculty in Northwestern’s Physics & Astronomy Department. They recently participated in an audio...
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...
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...
Rapid Fire Research Kicks Off
On October 26, graduate student Mike Zevin hosted the inaugural Rapid Fire Research event where 10 students had the opportunity to practice the art...
CIERA REU Student Beverly Lowell Presents Research at Symposium
CIERA REU program participant and Illinois Institute of Technology undergraduate student Beverly Lowell presented at the National Science Foundation’s Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)...
Graduate Student Kyle Kremer Recognized for Exceptional Work at NSF Event
Graduate student Kyle Kremer represented the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Chicago-area National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship event last week, and...
Undergraduate Rebecca Diesing Honored with Oliver Marcy Scholarship
Each year Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences recognizes undergraduates for outstanding academic achievement. For her work in the natural sciences and mathematics, Physics...