Looking forward to a huge leap in space exploration
Northwestern astronomer Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discusses his fortune in having time on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched into space this month...
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CIERA Research Assistant Professor Giacomo Fragione Receives NASA Grant for LISA Preparatory Science Program
Image Credit: NASA CIERA Research Assistant Professor Giacomo Fragione was selected as one of 6 recipients for a highly-competitive NASA grant to design and...
Professor Wen-fai Fong Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship
CIERA Professor Wen-fai Fong has received a 2021 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant...
Luke Kelley Awarded Cottrell Fellowship
The Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, with support from the National Science Foundation, recently announced that CIERA’s Lindheimer Postdoctoral Fellow Luke Zoltan Kelley has...
CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Member Adam Miller
This fall, we are excited to welcome Adam Miller to CIERA as a new astrophysics faculty member. Adam Miller joins as an Assistant Professor...
CIERA Members Win 2nd Place for JSPG Policy Position Paper
Image Credit: Celeste Hay Kaylee Henry, Ranya Virk, Lindsay DeMarchi, and Huei Sears won second place in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance and the American...
Postdoctoral Fellow Mike Grudić Awarded NASA Hubble Fellowship
NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The NHFP is one of the highlights of NASA’s pursuit...
Vicky Kalogera Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Six members of the Northwestern University faculty have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest...
NSF Graduate Fellowships Awarded to Astronomy Students
The National Science Foundation has awarded two prestigious graduate fellowships (Nick Kaaz and Maura Lally) as well as two honorable mentions (Miguel Martinez and...
American Physical Society Elects Professors Margutti and Larson to Committees
Congratulations to Raffaella Margutti on her election as member-at-large to the Executive Committee of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and...
Vicky Kalogera Named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Features Gravitational Wave Article by Eve Chase
The 18th issue (March 2021) of LIGO Magazine is available for download: https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue18.pdf In this issue, CIERA’s Eve Chase and Caitlin Rose (University of...