
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...
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...
CIERA sponsored an event at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, IL where four Northwestern PhD candidates discussed a summary of their work, shared...
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Nearly 300 graduate students, faculty, and professionals (evaluators and staff) from more than 90 programs and 60 institutions attended the...
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...
Each July, the DuPage County NAACP hosts its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) Summer Camp at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois....
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Elizabeth Welch-Jani won the highest award possible at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Fair for her paper...
For the summer of 2019, 37 summer students will work closely with researchers at CIERA. 23 of these students received funding through CIERA’s Research...
Emboldened by the success and informed by the challenges of the September STEM weekend for seven Bad River Ojibwe girls hosted by Physics &...
For the third year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation...
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...
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...
“Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution. This winter, a Northwestern team of students and faculty...