2020
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!
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Fishbach
May 7, 2020
Congratulations to Maya Fishbach for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves" (PhD Advisor: Daniel E. Holz).
Samantha Usman has been awarded a Fermilab Computational Science Internship
April 24, 2020
David Zegeye has been awarded a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
April 24, 2020
Cory Cotter has been awarded a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
April 24, 2020
Paolo Privitera has been selected as a winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
April 21, 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Paolo Privitera
Richard Miller, pioneer of computational astrophysics, 1926–2020
March 25, 2020
Meet Astronomy & Astrophysics student Amy Tang
March 10, 2020
“Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve”, by Sherry Landow, Phys.org
March 4, 2020
"Finding young planets is challenging. We really need to understand the behavior of the parent star to be able to find the shallow signals of these planets which can be overwhelmed by starspots and flares," says Adina Feinstein, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Chicago and co-author of the study.
“Leftover Big Bang light helps calculate how massive faraway galaxies are”, UChicago News
March 3, 2020
Fermilab, UChicago scientists tap South Pole Telescope data to shed light on universe
A team of scientists have demonstrated how to "weigh" galaxy clusters using light from the earliest moments of the universe - a new method that could help shed light on dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of the cosmos, such as how the universe formed.
“New Solar Telescope Reveals Sun’s Surface in More Detail than Ever Before”, WTTW News
February 13, 2020
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has captured images of the sun unlike any seen before. Professor Robert Rosner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and one of the lead investigators on the project, says he’s been waiting for almost 40 years to see images like the ones recently captured.
“Prof. Eugene Parker wins prestigious Crafoord Prize in Astronomy”, UChicago News
January 30, 2020
Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences honors UChicago scientist’s pioneering work.
“2020 LAD Laboratory Astrophysics Prize Goes to James Truran”, AAS News
January 22, 2020
The Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is awarding its 2020 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize to Dr. James Truran of the University of Chicago. This prize is given for his theoretical work on early star formation and the nucleosynthesis history of the universe, as well as for his seminal contributions to the study of astrophysical thermonuclear explosions, nucleosynthesis, and the use of nuclear-decay chronometers to determine ages of stellar and terrestrial matter.