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...
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CIERA’s Carl Rodriguez Gives TEDx Talk
Carl Rodriguez, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics and Astronomy, was chosen to present his talk, “Listening to Einstein’s Final Symphony,” as part of this...
New Monthly Night at Dearborn Observatory with CIERA Astronomers
Thank you for making 2015’s Einstein Evenings such a great success! We are happy to announce a continuation of public evening astronomy talks at...
American Astronomical Society to Lead WorldWide Telescope
The Council of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) voted to take on the leadership of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project at the AAS winter...
CIERA Grad Student Brings the Stars to Her Hometown
Northwestern & CIERA Graduate Student Niharika Sravan returned to her hometown in eastern India last week to teach a one-week winter school that introduced...
Integrated Data Science Certificate in Development at CIERA
In 2015 Northwestern was awarded one of the first National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grants in data-enabled science and engineering. This multi-million dollar...
CIERA Graduate Students Speak at Local High School’s Women in STEM Event
On September 22, CIERA’s Katie Breivik, Maggie Morscher, and Niharika Sravan (pictured left to right) were invited by physics teacher Katie Page to speak...
Stargazing with Local Dads and Daughters Outdoors Group
On November 10th, graduate student Katie Breivik led a stargazing activity for about twenty girls, ages 6-12, in Lake Forest, IL. The girls are...
CIERA Seventh Annual Public Lecture: New Horizons Leader Alan Stern
New Horizons is NASA’s historic mission to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, the New Horizons left...
2015 Midwest Relativity Meeting Hosted by CIERA
October 1 – 3, 2015, CIERA hosted the Midwest Relativity Meeting (MRM) with over 100 participants from across North America, including some of the...
Boy Scouts and their Families visit Dearborn Observatory as part of NU Athletics STEM & Sports Day
For the third year in a row, NU Athletics invited Boy Scouts and their families to explore the wide variety of science, technology, engineering,...
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...