CIERA Hosts GNOME Data Analysis Bootcamp
In mid-August, CIERA welcomed ten researchers from a variety of institutions for a three-day bootcamp for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic...
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REU Poster Session Celebrates Hard Work with Sweet Rewards
CIERA’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program provides students with the chance to pursue an astrophysics-based interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with Northwestern faculty. This year, nine...
NASA Illinois Space Grant Recipients Present Their Summer Research Projects
On August 4th, 2016 CIERA’s ISG summer researchers presented their findings to a group of faculty and peers. The Illinois Space Grant (ISG) is an...
CIERA’s 2016 Summer Student Researchers
For the summer of 2016, 39 summer students worked closely with researchers at CIERA. Several of these students were funded through an educational grant...
CIERA Hosts Inaugural Cohort of New LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program
With a new generation of ground and space-based surveys generating petabytes of data per year, together with the increasing complexity of data coming from...
Physics and Astronomy Department Rising in Impact and Visibility
Over the last 15 years, Northwestern’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has emerged as a force in the field, with new researchers pushing innovative...
The Legacy of Scientific Discovery – by Mike Zevin, LIGO Graduate Student
On the morning of February 11th 2016, people around the world congregated in conference rooms to watch a press conference that would change the...
CIERA Students Awarded Funding for Summer Research and Illinois Space Grant Projects
CIERA is pleased to announce the following awards: Summer Undergraduate Research Grant Recipients: Newlin Weatherford: (Advisor: Vicky Kalogera) Slobodan...
CIERA Graduate Students Dazzle the Public at Ravinia’s Astronomy Night
On July 13, 2016 six graduate students from CIERA participated in Astronomy Night at Ravinia, which was organized by Northwestern alumnus Dr. Donald Lubowich,...
Experts Share with CIERA REU Students at Career Panel Discussion
Continuing an annual tradition, Northwestern University’s CIERA Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program hosted a live, online Career Panel discussion in July for our...
Data Science is Transforming Research at Northwestern-CIERA
Data science is affecting every aspect of Northwestern’s learning and research enterprises — among other things, leading to breakthroughs in precision medicine; contributing to...
LIGO Team Announces Second Gravitational-Wave Event
The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and...