News: Awards

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. 

CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics

Prof. Freedman is a Canadian-American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who works in the area of refining measurement of the Hubble Constant. She is renowned for her work on Cepheid variable stars through a Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. Her work and accomplishments are closely connected to the big-bang theory of Georges Lemaître.

John Carlstrom, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, receives this prize in recognition of his critical contributions to the Physical Sciences Division and the continued success of both academic departments.

Ava Polzin, Astronomy and Astrophysics “The Smallest Pieces of the Puzzle: Using Dwarf Galaxies to Understand the Universe”

Congratulations to alumni Will Cerny (BS, 2022; graduate student at Yale) and Sadie Seddon-Stettler (BS, 2022; graduate student at Cornell) for their National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Awards.

Rafael Luque  "Understanding the origin and nature of sub-Neptunes" and Lily Zhao "Enabling Radial Velocity Detection of Earth-Twins Through Data-Driven Algorithms and Community Collaboration"

Astrophysicists and astronomers at the University of Chicago are holding an art contest with the aim of connecting more South Side kids to the cosmos.

University of Chicago astrophysicist celebrated for work investigating the cosmic microwave background for clues about the early universe.

Congratulations to Leslie Rogers for her promotion to tenured associate professor.

Rafael Luque has been named recipient of the 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.

Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe

In an interview with APS News, Kolb discusses the Big Bang, parallel universes, and the need for public outreach.