News: Faculty

2025

Leinweber Foundation and University of Chicago establish a $23M endowment for theoretical physics

May 28, 2025


Young-Kee Kim Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Rochester

May 21, 2025


Read Sid Nagel’s Q&A with Quanta Magazine

May 13, 2025


Vincenzo Vitelli named CNRS Ambassador

May 2, 2025


Arvind Murugan Awarded the 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics

April 26, 2025

Arvind M


Luca V. Delacrétaz awarded Sloan Fellowship

March 13, 2025

Luca Delacrétaz


Robert Wald awarded 2025 Albert Einstein Medal

March 1, 2025


Clay Córdova wins Frontiers of Science Award 2025

February 26, 2025

Clay Cordova


Stephanie Palmer named a Schmidt Science Polymath

January 15, 2025

Stephanie Palmer news image


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