CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera Named a “Top Ten Northwestern Professor” by College Magazine
Dr. Kalogera’s leadership in the recent first detection of gravitational waves was cited as one of the reasons students view her as a top...
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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’s Geller and Faucher-Giguère Contribute to New Study in “Nature”
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, an international research team, including Aaron Geller and Claude-André Faucher-Giguère from Northwestern-CIERA and astronomers from the Kavli...
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...
Integrated Data Science Certificate in Development at CIERA
In 2015 Northwestern was awarded one of the first National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grants in data-enabled science and engineering. This multi-million dollar...
Professors Novak & Sageman Named to 2015 Faculty Honor Roll
Congratulations to CIERA Members and Professors Giles Novak (Physics & Astronomy) and Brad Sageman (Earth & Planetary Sciences) for being nominated by their students...
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera to Join National Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera has accepted an invitation to serve on the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) of the National Research Council. The...
CIERA Researchers Geller, Hwang and Rasio Win Award for “Capturing the Beauty of Science”, in the 2015 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest
Northwestern University’s Science in Society holds an annual competition to find the most beautiful science images from researchers all over campus. Entries to this fifth year...
CIERA Director Elected to LSSTC ExecBoard
Dr. Vicky Kalogera, E.O. Haven Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been elected to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation’s...
CIERA Summer Research Student Continues to Communicate Work
Casey Chu, an NSF REU student at CIERA during the 2015 summer, presented his summer research at a poster session for the Research Experiences...
CIERA Director Awarded Prestigious APS 2016 Bethe Prize
Dr. Vicky Kalogera, E.O. Haven Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been awarded the 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize from the American...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Elected APS Fellow
Shane Larson, Research Associate Professor and Astronomer at Adler Planetarium, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Larson’s citation commends...