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A $400,000 gift from local company Radix Trading, LLC will support PhD students. Radix’s contribution is part of the PSD Fellowship Challenge and will be matched dollar-for-dollar by an anonymous challenge donor. Together, this $800,000 in gifts will name the Radix Trading Fellows—a cohort of 20 students for the 2020-21 academic year.

Prof. Robert Rosner elected Vice President of the American Physical Society, will become President in 2023

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate

Prof. John Carlstrom comments on UChicago's leadership among a 93-institution coalition to use telescopes at the South Pole and Chile

The Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW) conference exists to create a space for women, who are historically underrepresented in mathematical fields, to network and learn about graduate research opportunities, graduate program admissions, and career options after they complete a degree. 

LIGO/Virgo has spotted a collision of dark giants that sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth

UChicago scientists invent first-of-its-kind method for pacemakers, other applications

The University of Chicago named as member of APS-IDEA network, a consortium of physics departments, laboratories, and research collaborations committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)

UChicago joins three universities in Institute for Foundational Data Science

Prof. Fred Chong named to National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

UChicago scientists share knowledge, research with the public—now with a virtual beer

Department of Energy selects Argonne, Fermilab to lead two multi-million-dollar national quantum research centers

Sarah Reitzes grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Prior to coming to University of Chicago, she was an undergraduate student at Tufts University in Boston. This is her fifth year pursuing a PhD degree in the Department of Mathematics at UChicago. Her research is in logic, in particular computability theory and reverse math.

UChicago scientists discover way to make quantum states last 10,000 times longer

Maya Fishbach was born in Tel Aviv, Israel but has called Chicago home since she was nine years old. She earned a BS in math and physics at Yale University before returning to pursue her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. She defended her thesis in May, 2020 and will be a NASA Hubble Fellowship Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in the fall.