Northwestern Leads Effort to Detect New Types of Cosmic Events
“A team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University is poised to lead gravitational-wave astronomy into its next evolution. The W. M. Keck Foundation...
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Aprajita Hajela Wins NASA Future Investigator Award
For a dozen years, the four science divisions (Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate have supported graduate student-initiated...
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...
Monica Gallegos Garcia Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia was awarded a fellowship within the distinguished Ford Foundation Fellowship Program, administered by...
Fred Rasio Receives 2019 Brouwer Award
“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...
“Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst”
“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...
Scientists Gather to Plan Flight of Balloon-borne Telescope
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...
Most-detailed Simulations of Black Hole Solve Longstanding Mystery
“An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the...
What Next for Gravitational Wave Detection?
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...
Database Celebrates the Presence of African American Women in Physics
Fewer than 100 African American women have received PhDs in physics. African American Women in Physics (AAWIP) lists their names and provides resources for...
Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Named 2019 Scialog Fellow
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,...
Lindsey Byrne Awarded DOE Graduate Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Lindsey Byrne received a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). She will be...