News

2020

Dean Olinto shares lasting lessons from her dad in the New York Times

June 20, 2020

Dean Angela Olinto at the beach with her father in Brazil

Dean Angela Olinto shares lasting lessons from her dad in the New York Times


Astronomer Wendy Freedman encourages girls to reach for the stars

June 19, 2020

Film still of Wendy Freedman astronomer

Astronomer Wendy Freedman encourages girls to reach for the stars on StartTV


Equity, diversity, and inclusion learning materials

June 18, 2020

Juneteenth Day of Freedom, Day of Reflection, June 19 in yellow on a crimson red background

We invite all PSD members to educate themselves on the importance of understanding different voices and points of view. We have compiled a list of suggested readings and films that address topics of race, identity, and equity.


Chemist Sarah King honored with Beckman Foundation’s Young Investigator Award

June 18, 2020

Sarah King

Chemist Sarah King honored with Beckman Foundation’s Young Investigator Award


XENON1T dark matter detector picks up unexplained new signal

June 18, 2020

XENON1T dark matter detector

XENON1T dark matter detector picks up unexplained new signal


Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award

June 17, 2020

Jared Siegel

Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award medal for his poster on supernova remnant W49B at the recently concluded 236th AAS meeting.


University of Chicago STAGE lab docuseries takes viewers into the lives and labs of scientists

June 16, 2020

Nathan Earnest-Noble filming Curiosity with film crew in the foreground

Curiosity: The Making of a Scientist offers an online sneak peek of its pilot episode online June 25 at noon and 8 p.m.


Oumuamua: Neither Comet nor Asteroid, but a Cosmic Iceberg

June 16, 2020

hydrogen ice space object against black sky

UChicago Fellow Darryl Seligman finds that an unusual space object first discovered in 2017 is made of hydrogen ice


Peter Eng interviewed about decontaminating N95 masks on Fox 32 Chicago

June 16, 2020

News broadcast still of physicist Peter Eng and his N95 mask decontamination invention

Physicist Peter Eng interviewed about decontaminating N95 masks on Fox 32 Chicago


Chemistry student, Adam Antoszewski, honored for exceptional teaching of undergraduates

June 11, 2020

Adam Antoszewski

Chemistry student, Adam Antoszewski, honored for exceptional teaching of undergraduates with 2020 Wayne C. Booth Prize


Asst. Prof. Brian Nord and Prof. Daniel Holz discuss Wednesday’s #ShutDownSTEM strike

June 11, 2020

Brian Nord speaks at a panel

Asst. Prof. Brian Nord and Prof. Daniel Holz discuss Wednesday's #ShutDownSTEM strike


PSD members honored with 2020 Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards

June 9, 2020

2020 Quantrell Award Winners David Archer, Professor of Geophysical Sciences and the College

Fred Chong, the Seymour Goodman Professor in Computer Science and the College

Paolo Privitera, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, Enrico Fermi Inst

PSD members honored with 2020 Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards


Mysterious interstellar visitor was probably a ‘dark hydrogen iceberg,’ not aliens

June 2, 2020

Oumuamua-- oblong space object from outside solar system

'Oumuamua made headlines as the first object to visit from outside the solar system. A new theory proposed by University of Chicago and Yale astronomers explains the phenomenon without aliens—but with interesting scientific implications.


Letter to PSD Student Community

June 2, 2020

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PSD Dean of Students, Bahareh Lampert, addresses PSD Student Community


Physical Sciences Division response to the death of George Floyd

May 30, 2020

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Read Dean Olinto's message to the Physical Sciences Division community after the death of George Floyd.