News: 2024

The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society.

A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time.

SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $138 million in funding for research covering a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, fusion energy, and quantum.

During summer internship in Germany, rising fourth-year Zewei Wu simulates astrophysical plasma

UChicago postdoctoral researcher Rafael Luque has obtained a Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the THIRSTEE project. The project's objective is to study and understand the origin and properties of sub-Neptune-type planets, the most common around solar-type stars (similar to our sun) in the Milky Way. The grant of 1.5 million euros over the next five years is part of the European Union's Horizon Europe program.

The Giant Magellan Telescope and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. today announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the United States.

Congratulations to Anirudh (Ani) Chiti, who has been named a Brinson Prize Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. Established in 2021, the Brinson Prize Fellowship Program supports ambitious research in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology, with a focus on projects that complement and capitalize on the latest space science.

UChicago-led analysis measures universe expansion rate, finds there may not be a ‘Hubble tension’

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have glimpsed tantalizing new details about what it’s like at the boundary of a tidally locked planet—that is, one where half of the planet is always exposed to its star, while the other is always shrouded in darkness.

Astronomy & Astrophysics and KICP Professor and FNAL Senior Scientist Dan Hooper has been selected as the new director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). 

Congratulations to Elyssa Brooks for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Developments of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors".

Congratulations to Astronomy & Astrophysics graduate student Ava Polzin, who has been awarded a 2024 Quad Fellowship.

Congratulations to graduate student Samantha Usman!  She is the recipient of an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship. 

Enabled by a U.S. Department of Energy program, a collaboration of scientists from Fermilab, UChicago, NOIRLab, and other institutions demonstrated that skipper-CCD detectors can be utilized to improve cosmology research.