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CIERA Mentored High-School Student wins First Place in Space Science at the Northeastern Science and Engineering Fair

High school student Sara Anjum recently won first place in the Space Science category at the Northeastern Science and Engineering Fair...

“LIGO — A Passion for Understanding” Documentary Released April 15th

You can now get an inside look at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) team and instrument with the, documentary, “LIGO...

Total Lunar Eclipse April 15th

During the pre-dawn hours of April 15, 2014, Evanston had its first chance to view a total lunar eclipse since December...

CIERA Fifth Annual Public Lecture: Prof. Maria Zuber Introduces the “New Moon”

Dr. Maria Zuber, Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT, gave CIERA’s Fifth Public Lecture on Thursday,...