Immediate Opening for Graduate Student: CIERA Keck Foundation Grant
We have an immediate opening for a graduate student ready to work full time on a newly awarded W. M. Keck Foundation grant. For this...
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CIERA Undergraduate Researcher Accepted to Ph.D. Programs
ISP undergraduate student Shyam Bharadwaj, who did research on cosmological simulations of galaxy formation in the CIERA research group of Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, was accepted...
CIERA Research Group Receives Time with Hubble Space Telescope
The research group of Claude-André Faucher-Giguère (GalForm @ NU) is part of a multi-institution team that has been awarded a large amount of time...
Astronomy Club of the College of DuPage Visits CIERA
Postdoctoral Fellow Aaron Geller hosted a group of students from the Astronomy Club of the College of DuPage on July 10. The group is...
W.M. Keck Foundation Grant to NU Team Led by CIERA’s Hooman Mohseni and Melville P. Ulmer
Two members of CIERA, Hooman Mohseni and Mel Ulmer have, along with external collaborator Olivier Guyon of the Subaru Telescope, been awarded a grant...
CIERA Shares with Local Children: Solar Observing and Careers in Astrophysics
CIERA graduate students hosted two groups of gifted young people as part of the 2015 Opportunities for the Future conference offered by Northwestern University’s Center for...
Illinois Congressman Visits CIERA
Congressman Randy Hultgren, who represents the 14th district of Illinois, visited Northwestern University on June 22, 2015. Accompanied by Vice President for Research Jay...
CIERA Helps the Adler Planetarium Celebrate the Summer of Science!
On Sunday, June 7th the Adler Planetarium kicked off its Summer of Science celebration, in honor of its 85th birthday. Northwestern University CIERA graduate students Katie Breivik and...
NASA Fellowship Awarded to CIERA Graduate Student Sam Hadden
Sam Hadden has been awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for 2015-2016. Hadden has been a grad student at Northwestern for the...
CIERA’s Doug Roberts Creates First Video Abstract for an Astrophysical Journal Letters Article
CIERA faculty Doug Roberts has blazed a trail in the integration of visualization and astronomical publishing with the creation of the first video abstract...
CIERA’s Melville P. Ulmer Receives Funding from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
Professor Ulmer is now a two times over NIAC Fellow. His most recent NIAC award came in June 2015. As a NIAC Fellow, he will serve...
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards
CIERA is pleased to announce the following awards: Summer Undergraduate Research Grant Recipients Funded by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Jessie Duncan, Anya...