October
Dhayaa Anbajagane won a 2023 CCAPP Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
October 2, 2023

Dhayaa Anbajagane, University of Chicago, "Inflation w/ lensing"
September
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”.
“XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays”, Uchicago News
September 12, 2023

Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe
July
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”.
Leslie Rogers won a 2023 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award
July 6, 2023

Leslie Rogers, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, "Investigating the Biological Potential of Moons in the Uranus System"
June
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.
May
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”.
Michael Gladders will receive a Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
May 24, 2023

Prof Michael Gladders will receive a Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University next week. Mike was nominated by the students in his Astronomy Field Course, an innovative course he designed that gets astronomy majors directly engaged in research with the Magellan telescope. This is one of the highest honors for faculty at the University.
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."
“Answering big questions at the South Pole”, PSD News
May 17, 2023

Most people seek warmer destinations for travel to escape the tough Chicago winters. Brad Benson, on the other hand, sets his sights on the South Pole nearly every year. On his list of top reasons to visit: the intense cold creating extremely low levels of moisture in the air, dryer even than the highest mountain peaks in the world.
“Researchers get first up-close look at mysterious planet’s atmosphere”, UChicago News
May 11, 2023

Exoplanet GJ 1214b is too hot to be habitable, but likely contains water vapor.
Wendy Freedman has been elected to the Royal Society, PSD News
May 10, 2023

Wendy Freedman, John and Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been elected to the Royal Society, a fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. This year, 59 scientists from around the world were elected Fellows or Foreign Members of the Society for their outstanding contributions to science.
“NSF awards $52M to upgrade Simons Observatory in Chile to explore origins of universe”, UChicago News
May 9, 2023

Improvements include upgraded receiver, solar panels to power the observatory and data processing pipeline.
First results from DAMIC-M chosen as PRL Editors’ Suggestion
May 3, 2023

Led by PI Privitera, the DAMIC-M experiment published it’s first, world-leading results
searching for sub-GeV dark matter via electron scattering in silicon CCDs.