STEM Panel Discussion Held at Lincoln Park High School
CIERA sponsored an event at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, IL where four Northwestern PhD candidates discussed a summary of their work, shared...
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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...
CIERA Postdocs Advance to New Positions
Pierre Gratia is finishing up some astronomy projects within CIERA before continuing onward. Wing-Kit Lee accepted an Insight Data Science Fellowship in Boston, MA....
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...
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....
Aprajita Hajela Wins NASA Future Investigator Award
For a dozen years, the four science divisions (Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate have supported graduate student-initiated...
Lindsey Byrne Awarded DOE Graduate Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Lindsey Byrne received a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). She will be...
Announcing CIERA’s 2019 Summer Undergraduate Researchers
For the summer of 2019, 37 summer students will work closely with researchers at CIERA. 23 of these students received funding through CIERA’s Research...
CIERA’s Aaron Geller Awarded LSSTC Enabling Science Grant to Fund Undergraduate Research
For the third year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation...
Eight New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s...
CIERA Graduate Student Michael Zevin Research Featured in AAS Nova
“The dense, chaotic centers of star clusters may be a birthplace for binary pairs of black holes like those observed by the Laser Interferometer...
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...