News: Faculty

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


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