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• Academics
• Research
  • Astrophysics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • High Energy Physics

Location and Directories

• Where We Are
• Faculty/Staff Directory
• Graduate Student Directory

Academics

• Undergraduate
  • Program of Study for Astronomy Majors
  • Program of Study for Physics Majors

• Graduate

Astrophysics Research

• Astrophysics Research at Northwestern
• Our gallery of gamma-ray bursts as observed by the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO).
• Faculty/Staff Directory
• Seminar Schedule
• IAU Circulars (NOTE: Large document) (Restricted to Northwestern)
• Astronomy Data Holdings on CD
• Local News (Access Restricted)

News Items

• Latest Hubble Results
• Recent News From JPL
• American Insitute of Physics' Physics News Update Newsletter and "What's New?"
• Physics News
  (Courtesy of the High-Energy Physics Theory group at Brown University)

Sites of Interest

• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomy resources on the Internet
• American Institute of Physics
• Physics Servers and Services Around the World
• LBL Particle Data
• Laws, Rules, Principles, Effects, Paradoxes, Limits, Constants, Experiments, & Thought-Experiments in Physics

Local Reference

• HTML Documentation
• Northwestern University WWW Server
• Current Chicago-Area weather forecast (Text)
  Graphical forecast based on MOS (Model Output Statistics) data. Details are available.
  For more information see the Purdue Weather Processor
• The UNIXHelp for Users system developed by John Smith of the Computing Services division at the University of Edinburgh.
• Personal Areas
  • Robert A. Lentz