Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have long since questioned the nature of the universe and the origin of many compelling extraterrestrial...
Six members of the Northwestern University faculty have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest...
The National Science Foundation has awarded two prestigious graduate fellowships (Nick Kaaz and Maura Lally) as well as two honorable mentions (Miguel Martinez and...
Congratulations to Raffaella Margutti on her election as member-at-large to the Executive Committee of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and...
Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John...
Banner illustration by Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine. From March 22 – 25, 2021 CIERA hosted a meeting for 210 participants called TRiple EvolutioN and DYnamics...
The 18th issue (March 2021) of LIGO Magazine is available for download: https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue18.pdf In this issue, CIERA’s Eve Chase and Caitlin Rose (University of...
Professor Wen-fai Fong has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for...
We are pleased to announce the following postdoctoral researchers joining CIERA this summer and fall, 2021. Welcome! CIERA Postdoctoral Fellows Tarraneh Eftekhari (Harvard) joins...
Dr. Christopher Berry, a research professor at Northwestern and lecturer at the University of Glasgow, has been named this year’s recipient of a Young...
In 2018, astronomers were shocked to find a bizarre explosion in a galaxy 200 million light-years away. It wasn’t like any normal supernova seen...
When the first black hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. With gravitational waves, astronomers...
