News: Faculty

2024

Zoe Yan named to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering

October 31, 2024

Zoe Yan


Cheng Chin elected as the Academician of Academic Sinica

August 13, 2024

Professor Cheng Chin


Three PSD faculty named as Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Investigators

August 5, 2024

Biohub Chicago Investigators


Bonnie Fleming elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 29, 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

Professor Zoe Yan named 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists laureate

August 10, 2023

Professor Zoe Yan


Biophysicists from the Department of Physics and James Franck Institute Make Discovery

July 21, 2023

Image of cells (membranes stained white and nuclei stained magenta)


Professor Cordova featured in Quanta article: A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics

April 19, 2023


Clay Córdova receives the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 19, 2023

Clay Cordova


Congratulations to Linda Young!

February 2, 2023

Congratulations to Linda Young for receiving an Honorary Degree from Uppsala University!


2022

Margaret Gardel Appointed Lead Editor of PRX Life Journal

December 7, 2022

Margaret Gardel Has Been Appointed Lead Editor of PRX Life Journal


Professor Abigail Vieregg receives Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative Award

October 27, 2022

Professor Abigail Vieregg receives Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative Award


Professor Marcela Carena Named A 2022 DOE Distinguished Scientist

October 27, 2022

Marcela Carena named a 2022 DOE distinguished scientist.

Professor Marcela Carena was Named A 2022 DOE Distinguished Scientist


Young-Kee Kim and Edward “Rocky” Kolb Receive Prize for Exceptional Service in PSD

June 14, 2022

The 2022 recipients of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division are Young-Kee Kim and Edward "Rocky" Kolb.


Abigail Vieregg appointed Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics

June 10, 2022

Abigail Vieregg, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, and the EFI, has been appointed the David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics for a term beginning August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025. Rocky Kolb will continue as the David N. Schramm Director of KICP through the end of July.