Celebrating women leaders in space and music with Ravinia Festival
At the end of July 2024, the renowned Ravinia Festival held this year’s installment of its annual Breaking Barriers Festival. The Breaking Barriers Festival is...
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Fifth Code/Astro workshop cultivates open-source software engineering skills
From July 15 to 19, 2024, CIERA Professor Jason Wang and Postdoctoral Fellow Sarah Blunt led the fifth Code/Astro workshop, the second of the...
Introducing CROCS: bringing space science to Chicago-area classrooms
In early 2024, CIERA launched a new K-12 education and outreach initiative: CROCS! An acronym for CIERA REACHes Out to Chicago Schools, the free...
Prof Wen-fai Fong honored with Steward Observatory’s 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize
This year, the 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize recognizes Northwestern University professor Wen-fai Fong for her pioneering, multi-wavelength observations characterizing fast transients and the galaxy environments that host them....
CIERA Astronomer Evenings bring astronomy education to the public
Article by Nineth Kanieski Koso for The Daily Northwestern. Every Friday evening, Northwestern’s Dearborn Observatory holds free “Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory” where the...
Jillian Rastinejad awarded Northwestern Presidential Fellowship
The Graduate School (TGS) of Northwestern University announced that Jillian Rastinejad was one of only seven people awarded the Presidential Fellowship for 2024. Funded...
CIERA Connections: From academia to quantitative research at IMC Trading
On May 22, 2024, 54 attendees gathered in the CIERA to hear the latest installment in the CIERA Connections series, “From Academic to Quantitative...
How NASA is Exploring the Secrets of the Universe and Improving Life on Earth: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Thomas Zurbuchen
On May 13, 2024, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen presented CIERA’s latest Interdisciplinary Colloquium to 70 attendees from across the Northwestern community. Dr. Zurbuchen was introduced...
Sun’s magnetic field originates surprisingly close to the surface
New finding addresses a 400-year-old mystery, once explored by Galileo An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University engineers, is getting closer to solving...
Presenting talks and visualizations at the 2024 CoDEx Symposium
On April 2, 2024, Northwestern Information Technology (NUIT) held their annual CoDEx symposium, an all-day campus-wide showcase of computational and data-enabled research at Northwestern....
Jillian Rastinejad selected for competitive Gemini Graduate Student Visitor Program
In early April 2024, 5 graduate students from across the International Gemini Observatory community were selected to visit the observatory and participate in a...
Zooniverse wins White House Open Science to Advance Innovation challenge
In late March 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced their Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge winners. Five...