2021
“Synergies and a supernova”, by Sherry Byrne, UChicago Library News
February 24, 2021
Library staff, faculty, and students join forces to drive new astronomical discoveries
The University of Chicago Library continues to look to the sky in our ongoing collaborative work with Professor Rich Kron, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, exploring the use of data obtained from historical astronomical glass plates to drive new astronomical discovery. Since we last reported on the project in 2019 (“Mining historical glass slides for astronomical data”), a National Science Foundation grant, new collaborations, and detection of a likely supernova have furthered our work, strengthened our partnerships, and expanded our experiences and expertise.
New metamaterials for studying the oldest light in the universe
February 19, 2021
Richard Kron, Sloan Digital Sky Survey co-founder, retires
February 9, 2021
Dan Hooper: What happened at the Big Bang?
February 4, 2021
Joshua Frieman & Eugene Parker named Fellows of the American Astronomical Society
February 4, 2021
Roger Hildebrand, Manhattan Project veteran and ‘giant’ of physics and astrophysics, 1922-2021
January 27, 2021
Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of nearly 700 million astronomical objects to the public
January 14, 2021
2020
Peter O. Vandervoort, astrophysicist and beloved UChicago mentor, 1935-2020
December 18, 2020
John Carlstrom named 2020 AAAS Fellow
November 25, 2020
James Truran awarded 2021 Hans Bethe Prize
October 8, 2020
Robert Rosner elected to presidency of the American Physical Society
September 23, 2020
UChicago to partner with Berkeley Lab to build next-gen cosmic microwave background experiment
September 9, 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