2020
PSD Spotlight: Brent Barker, Teaching Support Manager
August 24, 2020
Meet Astronomy & Astrophysics recent graduate, Maya Fishbach
August 18, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Sam Passaglia
July 24, 2020
Congratulations to Sam Passaglia for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "The Black Hole Window on Cosmic Inflation". Sam has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.
Congratulations to Dr. Philip Mansfield
July 22, 2020
Congratulations to Philip Mansfield for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Why Do Dark Matter Halos Die Together? An Intergalactic Murder Mystery". Philip has received a position of a KIPAC fellow at Stanford University.
Mystery over Universe’s expansion deepens with fresh data
July 17, 2020
UChicago scientists reflect on need to address racism, inequality
July 17, 2020
New view of nature’s oldest light adds fresh twist to debate over universe’s age
July 17, 2020
NASA’s TESS, Spitzer missions discover a world orbiting a unique young star near us
July 1, 2020
Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award
June 15, 2020
Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award medal for his poster on supernova remnant W49B at the recently concluded 236th AAS meeting.
For A Day, Scientists Pause To Confront Racism
June 11, 2020
Prof. Paolo Privitera won a Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award
June 9, 2020
“Finding who you are, what you do best and what you enjoy doing will bring you in the right direction—in research, and more broadly, in life,” says Prof. Paolo Privitera. “For this reason, I do not rush the students to focus on a single big project when they start working with me.”
In this stressful time
June 2, 2020
We have recently received statements from Provost Lee and Dean Olinto regarding recent tragic events in Minneapolis, and indeed, throughout our country. I urge you to read these statements. Please know that, alongside the PSD and the University, the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the KICP remain committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion
2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: Andrew Fabian, Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy
May 27, 2020
Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes.
Nora Shipp has been selected to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
May 20, 2020
Nora’s dissertation research is on the discovery and modeling of Milky Way stellar streams, supervised by Alex Drlica-Wagner.
Philip Mansfield has won a 2020 Sugarman Award
May 17, 2020
Congratulations to Phil Mansfield on receiving a 2020 Sugarman Award!