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South Pole Telescope, UChicago scientists help take historic image of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.

Josh Frieman elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Two astrophysicists who have been selected for the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) have chosen to join the University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) to conduct their postdoctoral research. The Fellows are Jessica Avva and Hayley Macpherson.

Prof. Wendy Freedman will address this year’s graduating class on the Main Quad. A renowned cosmologist, Freedman led the team that made a landmark measurement in 2001 of the Hubble constant—the rate at which the universe is expanding.

Prof. Emeritus Dietrich Müller, a renowned experimental physicist at the University of Chicago who spent half a century building instruments to study energetic particles from space called cosmic rays, died Dec. 22 at the age of 85.

Study including UChicago scientists creates map of nearby stellar streams and dark matter

University of Chicago physicist Abby Vieregg is leading an international experiment that essentially uses the ice in Antarctica as a giant detector to find extremely energetic particles from outer space. Recently approved by NASA, the $20 million project will build an instrument to fly above the Antarctic in a balloon, launching in December 2024.

Hsiao-Wen Chen, KICP senior member and Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics , has been named 2022 American Astronomical Society Fellows. The AAS Fellows program was established in 2019 to recognize AAS members for their contributions toward the Society's mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe.  

Asst. Prof. Alex Ji comments on the potential of the James Webb Telescope

Astro2020 survey prioritizes UChicago-affiliated projects such as Giant Magellan Telescope, CMB-S4

The Weizmann Institute of Science is joining the GMTO Corporation. The new partnership reinforces that completing the largest and most powerful Gregorian optical-infrared telescope ever engineered is a top priority for the global scientific community.

Alex is a postdoctoral appointee in the CPAC group of the  Argonne National Laboratory. He is interested in the study of the expansion and growth history of the Universe using data from galaxy surveys and cosmological simulations. He has worked in the analysis of galaxy clustering measurements and photometric redshift error estimation and calibration for photometric lensing surveys.

Zhuowen Zhang has received the Prize for the Best Poster at the Fermilab Users Meeting in August, on DES galaxy cluster research.

Kaeli Hughes,  KICP graduate student, won a  2021 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics

UChicago-led South Pole Telescope helps pinpoint location of supermassive black hole in galaxy Centaurus A