Graduate student Imran Sultan wins global photography competition
‘I love sharing the wonders of our universe with others through my astrophotography’ Although his work blurs the boundary between art and science, Imran...
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Graduate student Lindsey Byrne featured in 2023 DOE CSGF magazine
Lindsey Byrne, a Northwestern graduate student studying galaxy formation and evolution, has been featured in and on the front cover of DEIXIS, the annually...
Prof Wen-fai Fong to Receive 2024 AAS Berkeley Prize
Astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. Bestowed annually since 2011 by the American Astronomical Society...
Prof Wen-fai Fong Named AT&T Research Fellow
On July 31, 2023, CIERA Professor Wen-fai Fong was selected as an AT&T Research Fellow by Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. This...
Gravity Spy research paper wins prestigious Spanish data science award
Our interdisciplinary Citizen Science work is making international waves. On July 3, 2023, the BBVA Foundation’s Statistics and Operations Research Society awarded Northwestern researchers...
PhD Candidate Emma Kaufman awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship
PhD Candidate Emma Kaufman has won the Chateaubriand Fellowship, a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States which supports outstanding...
Four CIERA Members awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The 2023 awardees of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowships include four CIERA members: Elena Gonzalez Prieto, Teresita Ramirez Aguilar, Darsan Swaroop Bellie,...
Monica Gallegos-Garcia awarded Northwestern Presidential Fellowship
On May 8, The Graduate School (TGS) of Northwestern University announced that Monica Gallegos-Garcia was one of only seven people awarded the Presidential Fellowship...
Postdoc Caitlin Witt named finalist of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Thesis Award
Dr. Caitlin Witt, the CIERA-Adler Postdoctoral Fellow, was named one of three finalists for the American Physical Society’s Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in...
CIERA Associate Faculty Jian Cao Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jian Cao, the Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McCormick and an Associate Faculty of CIERA has been elected to the American Academy...
Introducing CIERA’s Eleven New Postdocs!
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are very excited to introduce CIERA’s largest-ever cohort of incoming Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates! They will bring a wide...
REU Student Claire Zwicker Wins Chambliss Honorable Mention for Research Poster at AAS
At the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), REU Student Claire Zwicker was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, Honorable Mention....