2020
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!
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
“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.
2019
Parker Solar Probe’s first discoveries: Odd phenomena in space weather, solar wind
December 5, 2019
NASA mission named for pioneering UChicago scientist produces landmark research
Congratulations to Phil Mansfield
December 4, 2019
Phil Mansfield has been appoined as the James Cronin Graduate Student Fellow.
Event Horizon Telescope Awarded 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
September 5, 2019
Congratulations to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration for being awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The citation reads: "For the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes.” The $3 million prize will be shared equally among the 347 co-authors.