2024
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".
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Mallaby-Kay
April 12, 2024
Congratulations to Maya Mallaby-Kay for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Probing the Large Scale Structure of our Universe with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope".
Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Bryant
April 10, 2024
Congratulations to Andrea Bryant for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "HYPOTHETICAL ICY MOON SEISMIC PROFILES FOR COMPARISON TO FUTURE SEISMIC DATA"
Congratulations to Dr. Fei Xu
January 9, 2024
Congratulations to Fei Xu for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Peeking Into the Future of Dark Matter Searches”.
2023
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.
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”.
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”.
Congratulations to Dr. Clarke Esmerian
June 27, 2023
Congratulations to Clarke Esmerian for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-Era Galaxies”.
Karia Dibert has been awarded a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year
June 14, 2023
Congratulations to graduate student Karia Dibert, who has been awarded a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Diesing
May 26, 2023
Congratulations to Rebecca Diesing for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Unraveling Particle Acceleration and the Nonthermal Universe”.
Aster Taylor receives prestigious Hertz Fellowship
May 24, 2023
Aster Taylor (BS, Astrophysics, 2023) is one of 15 Hertz Fellows selected for this honor, which is awarded to doctoral students who have the "extraordinary creativity necessary to tackle problems others can’t solve."
Congratulations to Dr. Celeste Keith!
April 24, 2023
Congratulations to Celeste Keith for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "OBSERVATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF HAWKING RADIATION FROM PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES".
Adina Feinstein won a NASA Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2023
April 5, 2023
Adina Feinstein (Ph.D. 2023) won a NASA Astrophysics Postdoctoral Sagan Fellowship for 2023.