Monica Gallegos Garcia Selected for 2022 Bouchet Honor Society
CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia has been selected as a 2022 Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee, a cohort organized by The...
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Another Successful CIERA REU Program in the Books!
This summer, CIERA hosted 15 undergraduate students as a part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Heading into a second year of...
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...
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...
2020 Midwest Relativity Meeting Blue Apple Awarded to Lindsay DeMarchi
Graduate student Lindsay DeMarchi won the Blue Apple award at the 2020 Midwest Relativity Meeting for her talk “Multi Messenger Observations of TZOs”. A...
CIERA Postdocs Advance to New Positions
Congratulations to Ian Christie, Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, and Jonathan Stern — the newest postdoctoral alumni from CIERA. Ian Christie will begin a new...
CIERA’s REU Program Goes Virtual!
This summer, CIERA hosted 11 undergraduate students as a part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Adjusted for a remote experience, the...
4th Award of LSSTC Enabling Science Grant to CIERA’s Aaron Geller
For the fourth year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC), to...
Undergraduate Kristopher Mortensen Earns Outstanding Thesis Research Award
Kristopher Mortensen, a 2020 graduate from Weinberg in Physics & Astronomy, was recognized with an Outstanding Thesis Research Undergraduate Award from the Undergraduate Curriculum...
CIERA’s Nancy Aggarwal Wins GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize
Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy Aggarwal has won the 2019 GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize for her thesis “A room temperature optomechanical squeezer.” Nancy received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts...
Launching SCOPE, a Free Online Science Communication Program
Free and open to any graduate student, SCOPE is an NSF-funded online science communication program designed for graduate students without access to in person...