CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Members Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet
This fall, we are excited to welcome Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet to CIERA as two new astrophysics faculty members. Ryan Chornock joins as...
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CIERA Postdocs Advance to New Positions
Congratulations to Ian Christie, Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, and Jonathan Stern — the newest postdoctoral alumni from CIERA. Ian Christie will begin a new...
4th Award of LSSTC Enabling Science Grant to CIERA’s Aaron Geller
For the fourth year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC), to...
Undergraduate Kristopher Mortensen Earns Outstanding Thesis Research Award
Kristopher Mortensen, a 2020 graduate from Weinberg in Physics & Astronomy, was recognized with an Outstanding Thesis Research Undergraduate Award from the Undergraduate Curriculum...
CIERA’s Nancy Aggarwal Wins GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize
Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy Aggarwal has won the 2019 GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize for her thesis “A room temperature optomechanical squeezer.” Nancy received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts...
Vicky Kalogera Featured in Crain’s 2020 Notable Women in STEM
Vicky Kalogera is one of six women leaders from Northwestern University in the field of science, technology, engineering and math to be included in...
CIERA Ranks #1 for National Postdoctoral Fellowships
Three CIERA Postdocs Win NSF Fellowships for Scientific & Educational Programs CIERA postdoctoral researchers Kyle Kremer, Patrick Sheehan, and Sarah Wellons have each won...
CIERA to Host National REU Leaders
The National Science Foundation has awarded a new 3-year grant to Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller, who has directed CIERA’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)...
NASA Einstein Postdoc Kate Alexander Named to Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties”
CIERA researcher Kate Alexander is featured in Crain’s “20 in Their Twenties” for 2020. She earned a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard...
Undergraduate Andrew Bowen Receives AAS Chambliss Award
Northwestern University undergraduate Andrew Bowen was awarded a 2020 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for his poster presentation at the 235th American Astronomical Society...
NASA Hubble Fellowship Awarded to Michael Zevin
CIERA doctoral student Michael Zevin was awarded the esteemed 2020 NASA Hubble Fellowship, and will begin working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli...
CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy to Utilize the Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the World
The Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the National Science Foundation has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for...