2025
Graduate student Abigail Lee featured in Popular Science
April 24, 2025
Graduate student Abigail Lee is featured in a Popular Science article, explaining how to measure the size of the universe
Graduate students Karia Dibert & Abigail Lee awarded NASA Hubble Fellowships
April 1, 2025
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. Over 650 applicants vied for the 2025 fellowships. Each fellowship provides the awardee up to three years of support at a U.S. institution.
Study by UChicago scientists finds four tiny planets around one of our nearest stars
March 11, 2025
MAROON-X instrument finds evidence for planets around famous Barnard’s Star
2024
Día de Ciencias inspires Hispanic students in STEM
December 13, 2024
On Saturday, November 16, the University of Chicago Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE UChicago) hosted the SHPE Chicagoland Día de Ciencias at the William Eckhardt Research Center. The STEM outreach event aimed to inspire Hispanic students and their families through hands-on learning, mentorship, and practical resources for academic success.
At Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, UChicago student unravels the mysteries of galaxies
September 10, 2024
During summer internship in Germany, rising fourth-year Zewei Wu simulates astrophysical plasma
Congratulations to Dr. Elyssa Brooks
July 30, 2024
Congratulations to Elyssa Brooks for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Developments of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors".
Graduate student Ava Polzin awarded 2024 Quad Fellowship
July 25, 2024
Congratulations to Astronomy & Astrophysics graduate student Ava Polzin, who has been awarded a 2024 Quad Fellowship.
Samantha Usman has been awarded the AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
July 12, 2024
Congratulations to graduate student Samantha Usman! She is the recipient of an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.
Congratulations to the Class of 2024!
June 4, 2024
Rohan GuptA, Jamar Sullivan, Jonah Medoff, Ariel Barnea, Raul Teixeira, Kabelo Tsiane, Marie Tagliavia, Audrey Scott, Riley Rosener, Nikita Munsif, Megan Zhao, Kyla Mullaney, Helen Tan
Abigail Lee and Hanjue Zhu won the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
May 30, 2024
CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
Atop a Chilean mountain, undergraduate students make cutting-edge astronomical observations, UChicago News
May 28, 2024
UChicago students conduct research at Magellan Observatory as part of new field course
Ava Polzin won the audience prize in UChicagoGRAD’s Thesis competition
May 21, 2024
Ava Polzin, Astronomy and Astrophysics “The Smallest Pieces of the Puzzle: Using Dwarf Galaxies to Understand the Universe”
Congratulations to Dr. Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang
April 26, 2024
Congratulations to Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Forward modeling of cluster systematics for cluster cosmology".
Congratulations to Dr. Mandy Chen
April 23, 2024
Congratulations to Mandy Chen for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Toward a Physical Understanding of the Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium"
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Poh
April 22, 2024
Congratulations to Jason Poh for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Strong Gravitational Lensing Science in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys".