July
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
NASA’s TESS, Spitzer missions discover a world orbiting a unique young star near us
July 1, 2020
June
Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award
June 15, 2020
Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award medal for his poster on supernova remnant W49B at the recently concluded 236th AAS meeting.
For A Day, Scientists Pause To Confront Racism
June 11, 2020
Prof. Paolo Privitera won a Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award
June 9, 2020
“Finding who you are, what you do best and what you enjoy doing will bring you in the right direction—in research, and more broadly, in life,” says Prof. Paolo Privitera. “For this reason, I do not rush the students to focus on a single big project when they start working with me.”
In this stressful time
June 2, 2020
We have recently received statements from Provost Lee and Dean Olinto regarding recent tragic events in Minneapolis, and indeed, throughout our country. I urge you to read these statements. Please know that, alongside the PSD and the University, the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the KICP remain committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion
May
2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: Andrew Fabian, Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy
May 27, 2020
Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes.
Nora Shipp has been selected to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
May 20, 2020
Nora’s dissertation research is on the discovery and modeling of Milky Way stellar streams, supervised by Alex Drlica-Wagner.
Philip Mansfield has won a 2020 Sugarman Award
May 17, 2020
Congratulations to Phil Mansfield on receiving a 2020 Sugarman Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Fishbach
May 7, 2020
Congratulations to Maya Fishbach for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves" (PhD Advisor: Daniel E. Holz).
April
Samantha Usman has been awarded a Fermilab Computational Science Internship
April 24, 2020
David Zegeye has been awarded a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
April 24, 2020
Cory Cotter has been awarded a NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
April 24, 2020
Paolo Privitera has been selected as a winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
April 21, 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Paolo Privitera