News: Awards

Congratulations to Mark Levin! Each investigator, recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics, will receive up to $2 million over five years.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang recognized for excellence in chemical biology research and undergraduate education at the University of Chicago.

Ziwan Xu, an alumna of the Department of Chemistry, is spotlighted in Nature for her innovative research in radiosensitizers and sustained-release drug delivery.

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: Andrew J. Campbell!

A publication from the Chuan He lab has been selected as one of Nature Magazine's "Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024."
 

Congratulations to Don York, PhD’71, the Horace B. Horton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics! The Norman Maclean Faculty Award recognizes UChicago scholars’ contributions to teaching and student life.

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Calegari’s research is in the area of algebraic number theory. He is particularly interested in the Langlands program, a set of mathematical ideas that has been called the "grand unified theory of mathematics.”

The 2025 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize has been awarded to Ewain Gwynne for his work in conformal probability, which studies probabilistic objects such as random curves and surfaces.

Congratulations to the UChicago ATLAS team! This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on LHC Run-2 data up to July 2024.

Congratulations to Clay Córdova, Assistant Professor of Physics, who has received the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) from the International Congress of Basic Sciences for his work on theoretical particle physics and new symmetries in nature.

Early-career scholars recognized for pioneering work in statistics, physics, chemistry, astrophysics, and computer science.

The prestigious Einstein Medal, established in 1979, honors individuals who have contributed significant scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein.

Yamuna Krishnan, the Louis Block Professor of Chemistry and the College, has received the 2025 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award. The Divisional honor provides unrestricted seed funds for intellectually exciting and innovative research ventures that enable new research directions.

Krishnan has pioneered the application of DNA nanotechnology to cell biology, deploying nanodevices as fluorescent reporters, thereby revealing the chemistry within sub-compartments of cells called organelles.

Prof. Wendy Freedman, one of world’s leading cosmologists, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the country’s highest scientific honor. She was recognized for her pioneering contributions to cosmology, including the measurement of the expansion and evolution of the universe.

Photo by Ryan K. Morris, courtesy of the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation

Two PSD faculty members have received named professorships. Hening Lin has been named the James and Karen Frank Family Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Chemistry and the College, and Rebecca Willett has been named the first Worah Family Professor in the Wallman Society of Fellows in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science and the College.