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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...
Undergraduate Andrew Bowen Receives AAS Chambliss Award
Northwestern University undergraduate Andrew Bowen was awarded a 2020 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for his poster presentation at the 235th...
Tom Imperato ‘22P, Devoted CIERA Board of Visitors Member, Dies at 73
Tom Imperato ‘22P passed away on April 9, 2020, following a valiant battle with cancer. He was 73 years old. Tom...
NASA Hubble Fellowship Awarded to Michael Zevin
CIERA doctoral student Michael Zevin was awarded the esteemed 2020 NASA Hubble Fellowship, and will begin working as a postdoctoral researcher...
Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
Just over a year ago, on 12 April 2019, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration made a detection of gravitational waves, rippling out...
A Supernova that Outshines All Others
A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified...
Earthquake Detective Featured by sustainNU in Citizen Science Project Spotlight
As part of their Virtual Earth Month celebration, each week sustainNU will highlight two new research projects on biology, climate, history,...
CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy to Utilize the Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the World
The Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the National Science Foundation has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49...
Beverly Lowell Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Second-year CIERA graduate student Beverly Lowell was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship for the upcoming year and received...
Seven New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range...