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...
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Monica Gallegos Garcia Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia was awarded a fellowship within the distinguished Ford Foundation Fellowship Program, administered by...
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...
Database Celebrates the Presence of African American Women in Physics
Fewer than 100 African American women have received PhDs in physics. African American Women in Physics (AAWIP) lists their names and provides resources for...
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...
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...
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...
Stefan Danilishin Discusses Enhancing Future Gravitational Wave Detectors at CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Recent detections of gravitational waves (GW) from colliding black hole binaries by LIGO and Virgo interferometers have not only ushered in the era of...