CIERA REU Student Eryn Cangi Wins Chambliss Medal for Research Poster at AAS
At this month’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Eryn Cangi was awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award. This honor is given to...
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CIERA’s Geller and Faucher-Giguère Contribute to New Study in “Nature”
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, an international research team, including Aaron Geller and Claude-André Faucher-Giguère from Northwestern-CIERA and astronomers from the Kavli...
New Monthly Night at Dearborn Observatory with CIERA Astronomers
Thank you for making 2015’s Einstein Evenings such a great success! We are happy to announce a continuation of public evening astronomy talks at...
American Astronomical Society to Lead WorldWide Telescope
The Council of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) voted to take on the leadership of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project at the AAS winter...
CIERA Grad Student Brings the Stars to Her Hometown
Northwestern & CIERA Graduate Student Niharika Sravan returned to her hometown in eastern India last week to teach a one-week winter school that introduced...
Integrated Data Science Certificate in Development at CIERA
In 2015 Northwestern was awarded one of the first National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grants in data-enabled science and engineering. This multi-million dollar...
AAAS Fellow Jeremy Ward Visits CIERA
On December 4th, CIERA received a visit from a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In June, Jeremy Ward...
Professors Novak & Sageman Named to 2015 Faculty Honor Roll
Congratulations to CIERA Members and Professors Giles Novak (Physics & Astronomy) and Brad Sageman (Earth & Planetary Sciences) for being nominated by their students...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Participates in Gravitational Wave Google Hangout
On November 20th, a NASA program called Physics of the Cosmos co-sponsored its first Google Hangout in partnership with the “Future in Space” hangout series produced...
CIERA Graduate Students Speak at Local High School’s Women in STEM Event
On September 22, CIERA’s Katie Breivik, Maggie Morscher, and Niharika Sravan (pictured left to right) were invited by physics teacher Katie Page to speak...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Joins 2015-2016 WCAS Seminar Series for Staff
Each year, staff members from Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences organize a series of faculty talks given especially for staff. This allows...
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera to Join National Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera has accepted an invitation to serve on the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) of the National Research Council. The...