December
Peter O. Vandervoort, astrophysicist and beloved UChicago mentor, 1935-2020
December 18, 2020
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Graduate students selected for fellowship
December 18, 2020
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November
John Carlstrom named 2020 AAAS Fellow
November 25, 2020
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October
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil featured in Science Friday documentary
October 9, 2020
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James Truran awarded 2021 Hans Bethe Prize
October 8, 2020
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to our 2013 Brinson Lecturer Andrea Ghez
October 6, 2020
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September
Welcoming the largest class of graduate students in PSD history
September 29, 2020
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New analysis of black hole reveals a wobbling shadow
September 24, 2020
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Robert Rosner elected to presidency of the American Physical Society
September 23, 2020
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UChicago to partner with Berkeley Lab to build next-gen cosmic microwave background experiment
September 9, 2020
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August
PSD Spotlight: Brent Barker, Teaching Support Manager
August 24, 2020
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Meet Astronomy & Astrophysics recent graduate, Maya Fishbach
August 18, 2020
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July
Congratulations to Dr. Sam Passaglia
July 24, 2020
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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
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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
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