News: 2020

December

Peter O. Vandervoort, astrophysicist and beloved UChicago mentor, 1935-2020

December 18, 2020


Graduate students selected for fellowship

December 18, 2020


November

John Carlstrom named 2020 AAAS Fellow

November 25, 2020


October

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil featured in Science Friday documentary

October 9, 2020


James Truran awarded 2021 Hans Bethe Prize

October 8, 2020


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


New analysis of black hole reveals a wobbling shadow

September 24, 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


August

PSD Spotlight: Brent Barker, Teaching Support Manager

August 24, 2020


Meet Astronomy & Astrophysics recent graduate, Maya Fishbach

August 18, 2020


July

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