2024
Abigail Lee and Hanjue Zhu won the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
May 30, 2024
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CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
Wendy Freedman has been awarded the Georges Lemaître International Prize
May 30, 2024
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Prof. Freedman is a Canadian-American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who works in the area of refining measurement of the Hubble Constant. She is renowned for her work on Cepheid variable stars through a Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. Her work and accomplishments are closely connected to the big-bang theory of Georges Lemaître.
John Carlstrom has been awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the PSD
May 22, 2024
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John Carlstrom, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, receives this prize in recognition of his critical contributions to the Physical Sciences Division and the continued success of both academic departments.
Ava Polzin won the audience prize in UChicagoGRAD’s Thesis competition
May 21, 2024
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Ava Polzin, Astronomy and Astrophysics “The Smallest Pieces of the Puzzle: Using Dwarf Galaxies to Understand the Universe”
Gabriel Hoshino was awarded the DOE’s Office of SCGSR Fellowship
April 23, 2024
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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”
Amanda Farah won the 2023 Blue Apple Prize
March 31, 2024
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Congratulations to the 2023 Blue Apple Prize winner, Amanda Farah!
John Carlstrom has been awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
January 11, 2024
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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
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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."
“NSF awards up to $21.4M for design of next-gen telescopes to capture earliest moments of universe”, UChicago News
October 30, 2023
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Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe
Professor Rocky Kolb awarded the APS Lilienfeld Prize
October 24, 2023
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In an interview with APS News, Kolb discusses the Big Bang, parallel universes, and the need for public outreach.
Karia Dibert has been awarded a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year
June 14, 2023
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Congratulations to graduate student Karia Dibert, who has been awarded a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Michael Gladders will receive a Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
May 25, 2023
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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.
Wendy Freedman has been elected to the Royal Society, PSD News
May 10, 2023
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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
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Improvements include upgraded receiver, solar panels to power the observatory and data processing pipeline.
Kaeli Hughes won the APS DAP dissertation prize
April 17, 2023
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Former KICP graduate student Kaeli Hughes (Ph.D., UChicago, 2022) won the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics for 2023.
"For leading the lowest threshold ultra-high energy astrophysical neutrino search to date, with data from the Askaryan Radio Array, and her efforts toward the development of future radio detectors for ultra-high energy astrophysical and cosmogenic neutrinos."