Current and former CIERA students traveling to southern IL for the eclipse!

Monica Gallegos-Garcia Dennis kaushik

Today's #SCOTUS decision on affirmative action, overturning 50 years of precedent, is a devastating blow to fairness and equity in higher education.

This ruling will fall hardest on students of color, who already face systemic barriers to equitable education.

Excited for Nia's visit to CIERA/Northwestern! 🥳

A huge congratulations to Monica Gallegos-Garcia on being awarded Northwestern's most prestigious fellowship by tgsatnu! ciera.northwestern.edu/2023/05/15/mon…

Join us this week for TWO exciting public events that showcase the immense interconnectedness between art and astronomy! First up, Dr. Nia Imara from UC Santa Cruz presents our next Interdisciplinary Colloquium at The Block Museum! RSVP HERE: bit.ly/3Mv6DIY

Bad news from Virgo. Commissioning is more difficult than anticipated. Without them joining the early part of the run, localisation of sources will be much more uncertain

I’m incredibly honored and thrilled to be part of this year’s cohort. Congratulations to the other recipients!

MIT welcomes 2023 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow and 2023-2026 Pappalardo Fellow Juliana García-Mejía physics.mit.edu/?p=15120 MIT Science

Join us next week for a special CIERA public lecture by Dr. Gabriela González! We will hear about her incredible work in gravitational wave astronomy - all are welcome!
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/598668

Congratulations to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, astro professor at UC Santa Cruz, for receiving the 2023 @AAAS Mentor Award! Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz has demonstrated scholarship, activism, & community-building on behalf of underrepresented groups in STEM. 🔎🔭🪐

news.ucsc.edu/2023/03/ramire…

Very excited for this event we’re hosting at Northwestern/CIERA! An incredible opportunity to hear from Dr. González who was the spokesperson for LIGO during the first detection of gravitational waves. If you’re in the #Chicago or Evanston area, you will not want to miss this!

For the first time in ~15 yrs, TSA flagged the LISA test mass and pulled it out. What is it? Is it OK to touch it? What's it have to do with NASA? So impromptu LISA lesson at ORD Terminal 1 Security, y'all. LISA Mission

Hello! My name is Jillian Rastinejad. I am a fourth-year PhD student studying observational astronomy at Northwestern University. /jcr

Publication day! Very proud to lead a team that discovered the first kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst, breaking with the long-held traditional GRB paradigm. A short 🧵on our discovery:
📸: A. Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Incredibly proud of our PhD Student Jill Rastinejad for leading the charge on this project. Jillian + team chased the elusive kilonova from long GRB 211211A, challenging the idea that neutron star mergers only produce short GRBs!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Josiah Rosario (Josiah Rosario) is a PhD candidate in the Dept of Psychology in Weinberg College at Northwestern.

His research primarily focuses on understanding how people’s environments shape their academic and psychological outcomes.

Learn more @ spr.ly/6019MNCKl.

Do black holes receive natal supernova kicks? From a study of the X-ray binary MAXI J1305−704 considering both its kinematics and its stellar evolution history, this new paper lead by Chase Kimball argues yes. They infer a minimum kick of 70 km/s

arxiv.org/abs/2211.02158

We are so excited to partner with AAS Education Committee to offer 8 free spots to our SP23 mentoring course!

Any AAS members or affiliates are eligible, with preference given to folks at minority serving institutions.

The application is QUICK and opens next week, so be sure to apply!