New Year, New CIERA Open House Event
CIERA kicked off the new year by welcoming over 100 people to an open house to learn more about the center while...
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CIERA Graduate Student Zachary Hafen Featured by Northwestern TGS
“Be willing to give a chance to stuff that seems boring at first. The depth may astound you once you get through the beginning.”...
Priya Natarajan Presents 11th Annual CIERA Public Lecture
CIERA’s 11th annual public lecture was presented by award-winning author and Yale professor Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan at Cahn Auditorium on October 24. Natarajan...
STEM Panel Discussion Held at Lincoln Park High School
CIERA sponsored an event at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, IL where four Northwestern PhD candidates discussed a summary of their work, shared...
“Remember that meteor that lit up Chicago’s night sky two years ago? Scientists are searching for it at the bottom of Lake Michigan.”
“The morning after the Lake Michigan strike, Hammergren and Shane Larson (now an associate professor of astrophysics at Northwestern University, then a researcher at...
Students in 2019 “High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy” Present Their Research at Annual Poster Session
CIERA’s High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy is an interactive, cohort program that provides high school students with exposure to real astronomy research...
CIERA Celebrates Apollo 11
On July 12 and 26, CIERA hosted special evening events at the Dearborn Observatory to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon...
Grad Student Zach Hafen Turns Summer Camp Students into Gas Molecules
Each July, the DuPage County NAACP hosts its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) Summer Camp at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois....
Lakota Stellar STEM Weekend
Emboldened by the success and informed by the challenges of the September STEM weekend for seven Bad River Ojibwe girls hosted by Physics &...
Vicky Kalogera Hosts Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss for 2019 Heilborn Lecture Series
“Rainer Weiss, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the historic observation of gravitational waves, will deliver the Heilborn Lectures at...
You’re Invited! Humans Needed to Help Find Star Clusters
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall toward our galaxy,...
Student-led Data Expeditions with “Vault”
In high school, CIERA physics and astronomy graduate student Zachary Hafen didn’t necessarily find science interesting. Intrigued by its open-ended nature, he planned to...