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2026

Marc Kamionkowski, PhD’91, recipient of Alumni Achieve Award

April 9, 2026


Vincenzo Vitelli and Carlos Wagner named Association for the Advancement of Science fellows in 2026

March 27, 2026

Vitelli,Wagner


Lecture series to explore how particles from space can help us understand our world

March 10, 2026

Compton Series 2026


Bonnie Fleming joins UChicago Physics Department’s full-time faculty

March 10, 2026

Bonnie Fleming


Binding Energy: Books by Chicago Physics Faculty

March 3, 2026

Books by UChicago physicists


UChicago scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction

February 26, 2026

speedometer in red


UChicago scientists find better way to make infrared light—using quantum dots

February 26, 2026


Irvine research on turbulent decay featured on the cover of PNAS

February 23, 2026

W. Irvine research in PNAS


Zoe Yan awarded 2026 Sloan Foundation Fellowship

February 20, 2026

Zoe Yan


Doomsday Clock ticks down to 85 seconds to midnight in 2026—closest ever to apocalypse

February 9, 2026

2026 bulletin announcement


PSD in Practice: An interview with Physics alum Kai Li, PhD’23

January 30, 2026


2025

Norbert Holtkamp appointed director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

December 16, 2025

Norbert Holtkamp


Tom Witten receives the European Physical Society Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize

November 20, 2025


Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate and Theoretical Physicist, 1922 - 2025

November 10, 2025


Quantum research centers led by Argonne and Fermilab renewed for five years

November 10, 2025

quantum scientists