New Mystery Merger Detected by LIGO-Virgo
Image Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In August of 2019, the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave network witnessed the merger of a black hole with 23 times the...
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Undergraduate Kristopher Mortensen Earns Outstanding Thesis Research Award
Kristopher Mortensen, a 2020 graduate from Weinberg in Physics & Astronomy, was recognized with an Outstanding Thesis Research Undergraduate Award from the Undergraduate Curriculum...
CIERA’s Nancy Aggarwal Wins GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize
Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy Aggarwal has won the 2019 GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize for her thesis “A room temperature optomechanical squeezer.” Nancy received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts...
Launching SCOPE, a Free Online Science Communication Program
Free and open to any graduate student, SCOPE is an NSF-funded online science communication program designed for graduate students without access to in person...
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Vicky Kalogera Featured in Crain’s 2020 Notable Women in STEM
Vicky Kalogera is one of six women leaders from Northwestern University in the field of science, technology, engineering and math to be included in...
CIERA Ranks #1 for National Postdoctoral Fellowships
Three CIERA Postdocs Win NSF Fellowships for Scientific & Educational Programs CIERA postdoctoral researchers Kyle Kremer, Patrick Sheehan, and Sarah Wellons have each won...
Remote Learning Resources Available on New Reach for the Stars Website
Over the course of last summer, the Reach for the Stars program teamed up with educators across the country to revise hundreds of lesson...
CIERA to Host National REU Leaders
The National Science Foundation has awarded a new 3-year grant to Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller, who has directed CIERA’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)...
Astrophysicists Capture New Class of Transient Objects
Artist’s illustration comparing FBOTs to normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF ‘A new beast is out there,’ researcher says of object...
Using Gravitational Waves to Approximate Pi
Image Credit: Igor Sokalski Getty Images At least 3,700 years ago, Babylonian mathematicians approximated the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. They...
NASA Einstein Postdoc Kate Alexander Named to Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties”
CIERA researcher Kate Alexander is featured in Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties” for 2020. She earned a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard...