High School Researcher Takes Gold at State Science Fair
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Elizabeth Welch-Jani won the highest award possible at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Fair for her paper...
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Elizabeth Welch-Jani won the highest award possible at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Fair for her paper...
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia was awarded a fellowship within the distinguished Ford Foundation Fellowship Program, administered by...
“Northwestern University theoretical astrophysicist Fred Rasio has received the 2019 Dirk Brouwer Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA). The annual award...
“An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion. This explosive event (known as gamma-ray burst...
Beginning June 10, scientists from five institutions gathered at Northwestern for a week-long pre-flight planning meeting of BLAST-TNG. BLAST is a 5,000 pound balloon-borne...
“An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the...
Researchers are using gravitational waves to better understand black holes. LIGO’s detectors are sensitive to stellar mass black holes up to 100 times the...
Fewer than 100 African American women have received PhDs in physics. African American Women in Physics (AAWIP) lists their names and provides resources for...
The fourth-annual Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics (TDA) conference was held May 9-12 in Tucson, Ariz., with 47 Scialog Fellows and eight discussion facilitators attending,...
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Lindsey Byrne received a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). She will be...
For the summer of 2019, 37 summer students will work closely with researchers at CIERA. 23 of these students received funding through CIERA’s Research...
On May 29, Dennis Schatz presented, “Making Science Learning Lifelong, Lifewide and Lifedeep: What We Know About the Importance of Out-of-School (Informal) STEM...