2024
Meet a new Assistant Professor: Harley Katz
January 2, 2024
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2017
Dr. Leslie Rogers has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
January 2, 2024
Congratulations to Leslie Rogers for her promotion to tenured associate professor.
2023
Rafael Luque won a 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
December 18, 2023
Rafael Luque has been named recipient of the 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
“Día de Astronomía” in Chicago’s Gage Park
December 18, 2023
“‘Perfect solar system’ found in search for alien life”, by Pallab Ghosh, BBC
November 29, 2023
Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets
“Records reveal hidden history of female astronomers at Yerkes Observatory”, UChicago News
November 9, 2023
UChicago team chronicles dozens of women who worked and made discoveries in early 20th century.
Samantha Usman recieved a UChicago LGBTQ+ Community Engagement Award
November 2, 2023
Samantha Usman, graduate student in Astronomy & Astrophysics, has been awarded the inaugural LGBTQ+ Community Engagement Award from UChicago Alumni Pride and the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. This award recognizes exceptional contributions that advance and support the interests of the LGBTQ+ community.
“NSF awards up to $21.4M for design of next-gen telescopes to capture earliest moments of universe”, UChicago News
October 30, 2023
Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe
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.
Meet new faculty member: Diana Powell
October 3, 2023
Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2021
Meet new faculty member: Jamie Law-Smith
October 3, 2023
Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, 2021
Dhayaa Anbajagane won a 2023 CCAPP Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
October 2, 2023
Dhayaa Anbajagane, University of Chicago, "Inflation w/ lensing"
Congratulations to Dr. Jisheng Zhang
September 22, 2023
Congratulations to Jisheng Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Thermal and Magnetic History of Rocky Exoplanets”.
“XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays”, Uchicago News
September 12, 2023
Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe
Congratulations to Dr. Georgios Zacharegkas
July 14, 2023
Congratulations to Georgios Zacharegkas for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling the non-linear scales in Cosmology via the galaxy-halo connection with applications in DES Y3”.