2025
Congratulations to Emily Smith (PhD 2023), winner of the 2024 ATLAS Thesis Award!
January 29, 2025

Stephanie Palmer named a Schmidt Science Polymath
January 15, 2025

2024
First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT
July 16, 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
Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
December 21, 2023

Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."
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

2022
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
First demonstration of a new particle beam technology at Fermilab
August 11, 2022

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the first successful demonstration of a new technique that improves particle beams. The team, in collaboration with UChicago, published its findings in a recent edition of Nature.
Grace Chesmore one of two students awarded DOE Office of Science funds
May 4, 2022

Grace Chesmore, a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Physics, and Celeste Keith, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, will conduct research at Fermi National Laboratory as part of the Department of Energy's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program.
Fifth-year Physics Student Savannah Gowen Wins MRSEC Science Slam
March 13, 2022

Award-winning film presentation by Savannah Gowen demonstrates how training materials can be used to induce desired properties.
UChicago scientists create strange quantum ‘domain walls’ in laboratory
February 12, 2022

University of Chicago researchers at Chin Lab discovered how to create and manipulate a quantum phenomenon known as a "domain wall" - shown in this image as the lighter line between two groups of atoms. (Image adapted and color added from experiment data.)
Nine University of Chicago scholars named 2021 AAAS fellows
February 6, 2022

Nine University of Chicago researchers, including the Physics Department's Prof. Edward Blucher, were named 2021 fellows of the AAAS for their distinguished contributions to the sciences.