2025
Congratulations to Emily Smith (PhD 2023), winner of the 2024 ATLAS Thesis Award!
January 29, 2025
Stephanie Palmer named a Schmidt Science Polymath
January 15, 2025
2024
Zoe Yan named to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering
October 31, 2024
Cheng Chin elected as the Academician of Academic Sinica
August 13, 2024
Three PSD faculty named as Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Investigators
August 5, 2024
First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT
July 16, 2024
Mark Chantell Recognized in UChicago Science as Art Contest
May 16, 2024
Bonnie Fleming elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 29, 2024
Aleksandra Walczak wins prestigious Silver Medal from CNRS
March 19, 2024
Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect
February 14, 2024
Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose a self-organizing model of connectivity that applies across a wide range of organisms and potentially other types of networks as well.
Story by Matt Wood, Assistant Director of Communications, Biological Sciences Division
2023
Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
December 21, 2023
Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."
Dr. Katrina Miller awarded National Academies Award for Science Communications
November 15, 2023
Recent graduate Katrina Miller currently writes for the NYTimes.
Takumi Matsuzawa Featured in Nature Physics
August 15, 2023
Nature Physics journal features a cover image by Physics student Takumi Matsuzawa of IrvineLab.
Volume 19 Issue 8, August 2023
Professor Zoe Yan named 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists laureate
August 10, 2023
Biophysicists from the Department of Physics and James Franck Institute Make Discovery
July 21, 2023