CIERA Hosts Astronomy Day for Middle School Teachers
On February 23, CIERA hosted a day of professional development for middle school science and astronomy teachers. Twelve teachers from Evanston, Skokie, and Libertyville...
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News from CIERA Professor Farhad Yusef-Zadeh on Star, Planet Formation in Milky Way
Ashley Yeager from ScienceNews.org writes, “Blobs of gas near the Milky Way’s center may be just the right mass to harbor young stars and...
Graduate Student Katie Breivik Wins Chambliss Honorable Mention for Research Poster at AAS
At the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), graduate student Katie Breivik was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, Honorable Mention....
Supernova News from CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a press release, NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’, which begins: “We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl...
CIERA REU Students Present at 229th Meeting of the AAS
This January, nine students from CIERA’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program presented posters on their research projects at the 229th meeting of...
CIERA Postdoctoral Alum Laura Fissel Presents Plenary Talk at AAS229
Laura Fissel, a CIERA postdoctoral fellow (2013-2016) and current Jansky fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory-Charlottesville, was invited to give a plenary talk...
Professor Mel Ulmer Discusses Geoengineering at AAS229
Mel Ulmer was invited to join a special session of the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) this January, chaired by James...
Four New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s new Postdoctoral Research Fellows. They bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s cutting-edge research programs....
Graduate Student Zachary Hafen Wins Award in the 2016 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest
Northwestern’s Science in Society holds an annual competition to find the most beautiful scientific images from researchers all over campus. Entries to this sixth year of...
Year-in-Review Honors for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Year-in-Review Honors for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration In December, several prestigious honors were announced for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the team of scientists and...
Prospect High School Hosts Panel of Women Astrophysicists from Northwestern
On December 8th, Prospect High School’s Women in STEM Club sponsored an evening with astrophysicists from Northwestern University. Physics & astronomy graduate students Katie...
Gravitational Waves Detection Featured in Holiday Greeting to Northwestern Alumni
This year, Northwestern President Schapiro and Mimi Schapiro sent a year-in-review video to alumni and others on behalf of Northwestern and the Northwestern Alumni...