Graduate Students Engage with 7th/8th Grade Students & Families
On June 24th, Physics & Astronomy graduate students Cody Dirks and Zachary Hafen led a workshop at the Dearborn Observatory as part of the...
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CIERA Pilot Program Exposes Students to Astronomy Research
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are crucial to innovation, yet many challenges exist to producing highly qualified STEM graduates. CIERA Professor Dave Meyer...
CIERA Hosts Astronomy Day for Middle School Teachers
On February 23, CIERA hosted a day of professional development for middle school science and astronomy teachers. Twelve teachers from Evanston, Skokie, and Libertyville...
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 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...
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...
Graduate Students Participate in High School Research Project Showcase
On June 1st the Office of STEM Education Partnerships (OSEP) hosted the 9th Annual High School Project Showcase as part of Northwestern University’s Undergraduate...
IDEAS Visits Capitol Hill: Attends Future STEM Leaders Conference
Earlier this month Lois Trautvetter and Michelle Paulsen attended the NRT Teams Annual Meeting 2016, and Future STEM Leaders Conference in Washington DC. The events, both co-sponsored...
Enthusiasm for Mercury Transit Despite Cloudy Skies
On May 9th, Dearborn Observatory welcomed visitors to view Mercury transiting the sun. Despite very cloudy conditions, over 40 people arrived throughout the morning....
CIERA Demonstrates the Beauty of Art and Science at the First Annual STEM-CON
April 29th marked the first “STEM-CON” at the College of DuPage. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Convention kicked off with a bang, welcoming...
CIERA Researcher Brings The Galaxy to the Classroom
When graduate student Katie Breivik isn’t doing research about gravitational waves, she’s lending her science research skills to the classroom. This spring at the...
Ripples in Spacetime at Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Graduate student Michael Zevin interacted with about 30 visiting students in two sessions during Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day 2016 at...