Graduate Student Fani Dosopoulou Receives Holt Award
The Graduate School of Northwestern University has selected Fani Dosopoulou to receive the Holt Award. Named in honor of Helen Froelich Holt ’34, ‘38MS,...
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Postdoctoral Fellow Dan Foreman-Mackey Presents CIERA Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On March 16, CIERA welcomed Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow Dan Foreman-Mackey from the University of Washington as our Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium speaker. The event was...
CIERA Contributes to Northwestern’s Computational Research Day
To celebrate and highlight advanced research computing at Northwestern, the fourth annual Computational Research Day was held on April 18th. This all-day, campus-wide event...
CIERA to Welcome New Postdocs in Fall 2017
We are pleased to announce that the following postdoctoral researchers will join CIERA in the Fall of 2017! Cliff Johnson studies star clusters in the...
Professor Jeremy Kasdin Presents CIERA Winter Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On March 1, Princeton University’s N. Jeremy Kasdin presented, “Finding and Characterizing Earth 2.0: An Engineering and Astronomy Partnership” to an audience of approximately...
Media Seek Expertise on New Planets in TRAPPIST-1 System
Local astronomers, in their roles here at CIERA and at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, received a flurry of press requests for interviews and quotations in...
CIERA REU Students Present at 229th Meeting of the AAS
This January, nine students from CIERA’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program presented posters on their research projects at the 229th meeting of...
Four New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s new Postdoctoral Research Fellows. They bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s cutting-edge research programs....
CIERA REU Students Present at PhysCon
Valerie Becker and Eryn Cangi, students from CIERA’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, each presented research at this year’s Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon). From...
CIERA REU Student Beverly Lowell Presents Research at Symposium
CIERA REU program participant and Illinois Institute of Technology undergraduate student Beverly Lowell presented at the National Science Foundation’s Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)...
CIERA Graduate Students Demonstrate Their Expertise in Seven Minutes or Less
On September 13, 2016, CIERA graduate students Katie Breivik and Sam Hadden showcased their skills in public speaking at an event entitled “Seven Minutes...
Dearborn Observatory and CIERA Contribute to NU STEM & Sports Outreach Event
Every year, Northwestern University Athletics organizes an NU STEM & Sports Day: as part of Saturday pre-game activities, they invite Scouts and their families...