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Northwestern President Michael Schill announced a new Advisory Committee on Free Expression and Institutional Speech in a University-wide statement Monday. Pritzker Prof. Erin Delaney, who specializes in Constitutional law, will chair the 11-person committee. Other members include NU President Emeritus Henry Bienen; Weinberg Prof. Eli Finkel; Weinberg Prof. Vicky Kalogera, director of the Center for.
An international team of scientists, including physics and astronomy Prof. Shane Larson, will construct a new gravitational wave detector with the European Space Agency over the next 10 years, the University announced Jan. 25. Larson is a U.S. board member on the consortium overseeing the construction of the detector, named the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna..
An international team of scientists that includes astrophysicist Shane Larson has been cleared to build a new detector, this time in space. Today (Jan. 25) the European Space Agency (ESA) voted to formally adopt the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) as its next large mission, putting the space-based gravitational-wave observatory on track for construction and launch in 10 years.
Gravitational waves ripples in the fabric of space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 have been directly detected here on Earth since September 2015. Now an international team of scientists that includes a Northwestern University ast