2024
Gabriel Hoshino was awarded the DOE’s Office of SCGSR Fellowship
April 23, 2024
Gabriel Hoshino, PhD student, was awarded the DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship to work with Prof. David Miller, Andrew Sonnenschein, and Stefan Knirck on "Instrumentation for a Terahertz Reflector-Based Search for Axions and Dark Photon”
“Initial results from South Pole Telescope SPT-3G camera hint at future insights about our universe“, UChicago News
February 29, 2024
New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors
“Summary of a Life in Observational Ultraviolet/Optical Astronomy” by Donald G. York
February 9, 2024
My main science research is of an observational nature, concerning Galactic and intergalactic interstellar gas. Highlights for me included my work on the orbiting telescope Copernicus, including the discovery of interstellar deuterium; early observations of absorption associated with five-times ionized oxygen; and discoveries concerning the phases of gas in the local interstellar medium, based on previously unobservable interstellar UV spectral lines.
Dean Angela Olinto Named Provost of Columbia University
February 8, 2024
Angela Olinto, Dean of the Physical Sciences Division, and Professor in A&A, EFI, and Senior Member of the KICP will become the next provost of Columbia University.
Meet a new KICP senior member: Harley Katz
January 21, 2024
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2017
“Scientists find an unusual star that hints at a new way stars can die”, UChicago News
January 11, 2024
Discovery by UChicago astrophysicists may change our picture of how stars explode and elements are made
John Carlstrom has been awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
January 11, 2024
University of Chicago astrophysicist celebrated for work investigating the cosmic microwave background for clues about the early universe.
2023
Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
December 20, 2023
Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."
Professor Rocky Kolb awarded the APS Lilienfeld Prize
October 24, 2023
In an interview with APS News, Kolb discusses the Big Bang, parallel universes, and the need for public outreach.
Meet new senior member: David W. Miller
October 23, 2023
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011
Meet new senior member: Jamie Law-Smith
October 3, 2023
Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, 2021
Michael Gladders will receive a Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
May 25, 2023
Prof Michael Gladders will receive a Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University next week. Mike was nominated by the students in his Astronomy Field Course, an innovative course he designed that gets astronomy majors directly engaged in research with the Magellan telescope. This is one of the highest honors for faculty at the University.
“Answering big questions at the South Pole”, PSD News
May 22, 2023
Most people seek warmer destinations for travel to escape the tough Chicago winters. Brad Benson, on the other hand, sets his sights on the South Pole nearly every year. On his list of top reasons to visit: the intense cold creating extremely low levels of moisture in the air, dryer even than the highest mountain peaks in the world.
Wendy Freedman has been elected to the Royal Society, PSD News
May 10, 2023
Wendy Freedman, John and Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been elected to the Royal Society, a fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. This year, 59 scientists from around the world were elected Fellows or Foreign Members of the Society for their outstanding contributions to science.
“NSF awards $52M to upgrade Simons Observatory in Chile to explore origins of universe”, UChicago News
May 9, 2023
Improvements include upgraded receiver, solar panels to power the observatory and data processing pipeline.