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...
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CIERA’s Shane Larson Participates in Gravitational Wave Google Hangout
On November 20th, a NASA program called Physics of the Cosmos co-sponsored its first Google Hangout in partnership with the “Future in Space” hangout series produced...
CIERA Graduate Students Speak at Local High School’s Women in STEM Event
On September 22, CIERA’s Katie Breivik, Maggie Morscher, and Niharika Sravan (pictured left to right) were invited by physics teacher Katie Page to speak...
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...
Dennis Lehmkuhl Shares the History of Einstein’s Discoveries at CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Colloquium
We are often told that General Relativity tells us that the gravitational field is nothing but an aspect of spacetime structure: gravitation supposedly is...
Stargazing with Local Dads and Daughters Outdoors Group
On November 10th, graduate student Katie Breivik led a stargazing activity for about twenty girls, ages 6-12, in Lake Forest, IL. The girls are...
CIERA’s Michelle Paulsen and Katie Breivik Meet U.S. Congressman Bob Dold
Michelle Paulsen, Program Director of Reach for the Stars, IDEAS, and RSG Research Communication Program, and graduate student Katie Breivik, met U.S. congressman Bob Dold on Monday, November 10th....
CIERA Seventh Annual Public Lecture: New Horizons Leader Alan Stern
New Horizons is NASA’s historic mission to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, the New Horizons left...
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...