News: Faculty

2025

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

Luca Delacrétaz receives NSF Career Award

November 15, 2024

Luca Delacrétaz


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

October 31, 2024

Zoe Yan


The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago

October 15, 2024


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

Over 180 researchers attend the Midwest Cold Atom Workshop

November 14, 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