2024
Prof. Alex Drlica-Wagner selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
October 4, 2024
The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society.
New Webb Telescope data suggests our model of the universe may hold up after all
August 22, 2024
UChicago-led analysis measures universe expansion rate, finds there may not be a ‘Hubble tension’
We know many things about our universe, but astronomers are still debating exactly how fast it is expanding. In fact, over the past two decades, two major ways to measure this number—known as the “Hubble constant” —have come up with different answers, leading some to wonder if there was something missing from our model of how the universe works.
Dan Hooper named director of WIPAC
July 31, 2024
Astronomy & Astrophysics and KICP Professor and FNAL Senior Scientist Dan Hooper has been selected as the new director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC).
HELIX, a NASA balloon mission to study cosmic rays, completed a successful 6 day flight from Sweden
June 5, 2024
Every now and then, tiny particles of antimatter strike Earth from cosmic parts unknown. A new balloon-borne experiment launching this spring may at last find their source.
Wendy Freedman has been awarded the Georges Lemaître International Prize
May 30, 2024
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
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.
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.