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
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
Biophysicists from the Department of Physics and James Franck Institute Make Discovery
July 21, 2023
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
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
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.