IDEAS & CIERA Host NSF Research Traineeship National Meeting
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Nearly 300 graduate students, faculty, and professionals (evaluators and staff) from more than 90 programs and 60 institutions attended the...
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Observational Astronomers Gather for ‘Hot-wiring the Transient Universe VI’
An international group of over 90 experts and early-career researchers gathered August 19 – 22 for Hot-wiring the Transient Universe VI. Hosted by scientific...
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....
Scientists Gather to Plan Flight of Balloon-borne Telescope
Beginning June 10, scientists from five institutions gathered at Northwestern for a week-long pre-flight planning meeting of BLAST-TNG. BLAST is a 5,000 pound balloon-borne...
The Importance of Out-of-School STEM Learning: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Dennis Schatz
On May 29, Dennis Schatz presented, “Making Science Learning Lifelong, Lifewide and Lifedeep: What We Know About the Importance of Out-of-School (Informal) STEM...
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 &...
The Challenges and Rewards of Studying Radio Pulsars: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Scott Ransom
Radio pulsars are nature’s near-perfect celestial clocks, and have repeatedly proven themselves to be extraordinary tool for astrophysicists. They have probed the most...
Erik Curiel on Inconsistent Definitions of a Black Hole
Black holes have become a central object for study in numerous fields of physics far beyond the field of classical general relativity. However, even...
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...
Sean Raymond on Solar System Formation at CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
The past decade of exoplanet observations has confirmed one of humanity’s worst fears: we are weird. Jupiter is the only planet in the solar...