June 2011
- Scott Coughlin and John Le, two undergraduate students in Prof. Kalogera's group, have been awarded Weinberg College of Art and Science Summer Research Grants for their research in gravitational-wave sources and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The grant gives full financial support to oustanding students pursuing novel research.
John Le's research proposal can be found here
Scott Coughlin's research proposal can be found here - Mike Smutko has been promoted to Distinguished Senior Lecturer. He also has been elected to the Associated Student Government's Faculty Honor Roll (his 5th time), and has been invited to give the keynote address at NU's Phi Betta Kappa induction ceremony
May 2011
- Professor Kalogera's undergraduate student Michael Tremmel won third place in the Nautral Science and Engineering category in this year's Undergraduate Research Symposium, with his poster "The Evolution of X-Ray Binaries on Cosmological Timescales". You can read his full presentation abstract here
April 2011
- Ben Farr and Carl Rodriguez, two students in Prof. Kalogera's group. have been accepted into the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
- Daniel Stevens has been awarded a Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant for Summer 2011. The grant is awarded in support of outstanding and novel research projects of a student's own design. Daniel is a junior pursuing a major in Physics and Astronomy and in Mathematics and does research in Prof. Kalogera's group.
- Kyle Kremer has received a 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of two awarded to Northwestern undergraduates. Each year this prize scholarship recognizes the 300 most outstanding undergraduate students pursuing careers in Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Engineering in the United States. Kyle is a junior pursuing a major in Physics and Astronomy and in Music Performance (trumpet) and does research on compact objects in binary systems in Prof. Kalogera's group.
March 2011
- Evghenii Gaburov has been selected as a NASA Hubble Fellow, with CIERA as his host instutition.
November 2010
- Physics major Scott Phelan won a University Research Grant in support of his research work during the summer of 2010 on the Infrared Dark Clouds at the Galactic Center with Farhad Zadeh.
- Physics major Ryan Jasinski won a University Research Grant for the 2010-2011 academic year in support of his research work on the Nearest Cold Interstellar Clouds with Dave Meyer.
- Physics major Michael Tremmel won an Illinois Space Grant Scholarship for the 2011 winter and spring quarters in support of his research work on the Cosmological Evolution of X-ray Binary Populations with Vicky Kalogera.