IDEAS Trainees Attend the Grace Hopper Celebration 2019
This past week the Grace Hopper Celebration 2019, the world’s largest gathering of women in technology, took place in Orlando. The Grace Hopper Celebration...
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STEM Panel Discussion Held at Lincoln Park High School
CIERA sponsored an event at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, IL where four Northwestern PhD candidates discussed a summary of their work, shared...
Students in 2019 “High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy” Present Their Research at Annual Poster Session
CIERA’s High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy is an interactive, cohort program that provides high school students with exposure to real astronomy research...
Grad Student Zach Hafen Turns Summer Camp Students into Gas Molecules
Each July, the DuPage County NAACP hosts its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) Summer Camp at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois....
High School Researcher Takes Gold at State Science Fair
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Elizabeth Welch-Jani won the highest award possible at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Fair for her paper...
The Importance of Out-of-School STEM Learning: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Dennis Schatz
On May 29, Dennis Schatz presented, “Making Science Learning Lifelong, Lifewide and Lifedeep: What We Know About the Importance of Out-of-School (Informal) STEM...
Lakota Stellar STEM Weekend
Emboldened by the success and informed by the challenges of the September STEM weekend for seven Bad River Ojibwe girls hosted by Physics &...
Reach for the Stars Teacher Mark Vondracek Wins Physics Teacher’s Award
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Mark Vondracek was given the 2019 International Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) Teacher’s Award for outstanding achievement in teaching contemporary...
Student-led Data Expeditions with “Vault”
In high school, CIERA physics and astronomy graduate student Zachary Hafen didn’t necessarily find science interesting. Intrigued by its open-ended nature, he planned to...
IDEAS Fellows Contribute to New Seismology Citizen Science Project
“Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution. This winter, a Northwestern team of students and faculty...
Local Podcast “Inside the Skev” Explores CIERA Research & Outreach Programs
In his ‘get to know your neighbors’ podcast, real estate expert Aaron Masliansky highlights the people and organizations of the Skokie & Evanston communities....
Y.O.U. Students Enjoy Astronomy Visit
CIERA graduate students Aprajita Hajela and Eve Chase coordinated a trip for middle school students to visit Dearborn Observatory on an afternoon field trip...