News: Awards

2025

Peter B Littlewood from the University of Chicago awarded 2025 Institute of Physics Gold Medal - Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize

October 13, 2025

Peter Littlewood

Littlewood has received his award for leading international research institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory and the Cavendish Laboratory, and especially as founding executive chair of the Faraday Institution, the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research.


Materials Research Society honors Professor Jiwoong Park with prestigious Turnbull Lectureship

October 10, 2025

Jiwoong Park

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Professor Jiwoong Park of the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering as the 2025 recipient of the David Turnbull Lectureship. This highly esteemed career award recognizes a scientist for "outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding and communication of materials science."


Abigail Vieregg has been named a 2025 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow

October 10, 2025

Photo of Abigail Vieregg outdoors

Vieregg is recognized for transformative contributions in the detection of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmogenic neutrinos, and providing transformative mentorship to the next generation of leaders in the field. 


Minimal models of life

September 22, 2025

Arvind Murugan

Physicist and Schmidt Science Polymath Arvind Murugan works at the intersection of physics, biology, computation, and materials science to understand the hallmarks of life.


Zoe Yan receives 2025 AFOSR Young Investigator Award

September 19, 2025

Zoe Yan

Congratulations to Zoe Yan, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Physics, who has received a 2025 Young Investigator Award by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research!


Five UChicago CS students named to Siebel Scholars class of 2026

September 19, 2025

Siebel scholars 2026

Hilman Hanivan, Sophia Henn, Jonathan Liu, Raghav Mehrotra, and Yudai Tanaka were selected to the prestigious program’s Class of 2026.


Eight scientists named 2025 Schmidt Polymaths to tackle breakthroughs in new disciplines

September 16, 2025

2025 Polymaths Award Winners

Congratulations to Arvind Murugan, Associate Professor of Physics, for being named one of this year's Schmidt Polymaths program cohort!


UChicago alum John Paparrizos honored with SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award for advancing time series analytics

September 9, 2025

John Papparizos

UChicago alum John Paparrizos won the SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award for his k-Shape algorithm, advancing time series data analysis across fields like healthcare and finance.


UChicago chemistry professors recognized with prestigious ACS Awards

August 29, 2025

Combined photo of Dimitri Talapin and John Anderson.

Dmitri Talapin and John Anderson honored for their pioneering contributions to chemistry.


Robert Wald receives 2025 ICTP Dirac Medal

August 25, 2025

Robert Wald

Congratulations to Robert Wald, Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, who has received a 2025 Dirac Medal from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).


Abigail Vieregg receives 2025 Cottrell SEED Award

August 22, 2025

Photo of Abigail Vieregg outdoors

Congratulations to Abigail Vieregg, Professor of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the College, who has received a 2025 Cottrell SEED Award!


Dmitri Talapin and John Anderson receive ACS national awards

August 20, 2025

Dmitri Talapin (left) and John Anderson

Congratulations to Prof. Talapin and Prof. Anderson, who have received prestigious ACS awards! The American Chemical Society has announced its 2026 national award winners, acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline.


University of Chicago researchers earn top honor for adaptive software breakthrough

August 14, 2025

Liew Family Chair, Hank Hoffmann.

Hank Hoffmann, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science, earns SEAMS Most Influential Paper Award for research on using control theory to enhance adaptive software reliability and responsiveness.


UChicago Pritzker molecular engineering dean receives 2025 Richtmyer Award

August 14, 2025

Dean Nadya Mason has been recognized with the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award for outstanding contributions to physics and for effectively communicating those contributions to physics educators

Yearly American Association of Physics Teachers award, given to Nadya Mason, honors outstanding contributions to physics and their communication to physics educators.


Hackathon unites United Airlines and MS in Applied Data Science students to tackle aviation with AI

July 16, 2025

Team Mosaic takes 1st place at the “Agents in the Sky” hackathon. Pictured: Dev Patel, Daniel Sa, and Ish Ramesh. Not pictured: Ariel Azria, Yijin Bao, and Linda Ji.

Students built an AI-powered dashboard that could help airlines anticipate spikes in passenger demand.