News: Awards

2022

UChicago named in NSF $20 million CONECT Award under the forthcoming ACCESS program

April 28, 2022

A $20M NSF CONECT Award will continue to support Globus, a research data management service developed and operated by the University of Chicago, as well as staff with expertise in building open and interoperable distributed research cyberinfrastructure (CI).


Physics professor Peter Littlewood elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 28, 2022

Peter Littlewood

Peter Littlewood, Professor of in the Department of Physics, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds appointments in James Franck Institute and the College, is a Fellow of the Institute of Molecular Engineering, and was former director of Argonne National Laboratory.


PSD in the News - April 2022

April 28, 2022

PSD against a white and turquoise background

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to find axion particles with new detector designs, advocate for paleobiology and evolutionary biology, and lead the S4 collaboration to design the next generation of telescopes detecting the light of the Cosmic Microwave Background.


Laura Gagliardi elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

April 20, 2022

Laura Gagliardi

Prof. Laura Gagliardi of Dept. of Chemistry has been elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest existing learned societies.


Two PSD undergraduates earn 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarships

April 19, 2022

Bernadette Miao, double majoring in chemistry and biological chemistry, and Wilson Turner, double majoring in molecular engineering and chemistry

Two PSD undergraduate students, Bernadette Miao and Wilson Turner, have received Barry Goldwater Scholarships, awarded annually based on academic merit and undergraduate research in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. 


2022 NSF Graduate Fellowships

April 19, 2022

Physical Sciences data map logo

Seven Physical Sciences Division students have been awarded 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Each fellowship provides three years of support during a five-year fellowship period. For each of the three years of support, NSF provides a $34,000 stipend and $12,000 cost of education allowance to the University.


2021 AAAS Fellows share their experience in scientific research

April 15, 2022

Ed Blucher

Professor of Physics Edward Blucher catches up with The Chicago Maroon about his 2021 AAAS funded work on asymmetry and an experiment deep underground in a mine in northern Ontario that is looking at a rare type of nuclear decay.


Paleobiologist David Jablonski awarded 2022 Darwin-Wallace Medal

April 12, 2022

David Jablonski sifts through a drawer of mollusk fossils from the University of Chicago collection

The 2022 Darwin-Wallace Medal from The Linnean Society of London has been awarded to University of Chicago paleobiologist David Jablonski in honor of his making major advances in evolutionary science.


PSD Statistician Named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow

April 7, 2022

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim is among the 180 Guggenheim fellows selected in this year’s class from nearly 2,500 applicants. He is recognized for introducing high-level algebra, geometry and topology to applied mathematics. In particular, he works with a type of mathematical object called a tensor and how the concept can be used in computational mathematics and the information sciences.


Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics names Lek-Heng Lim a 2022 Fellow

April 6, 2022

Lek-Heng Lim

On March 31, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced that Lek-Heng Lim, Professor of the Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, and the College, is among 26 members to be honored in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows.


Two NASA Hubble Einstein Fellows have selected KICP for their postdoctoral research

April 1, 2022

NASA Hubble Fellows logo surrounded by illustrated yellow swirls and planets

Two astrophysicists who have been selected for the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program have chosen to join the University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics to conduct their postdoctoral research. Jessica Avva, AB'15, and Hayley Macpherson will seek to answer how the universe works as Einstein Fellows, beginning their programs in Autumn Quarter of 2022.


Incoming astronomy postdoctoral researcher selected for the Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

March 31, 2022

Michael Zhang

The Heising-Simons Foundation today announced Michael Zhang, California Institute of Technology, Astronomy Ph.D.’22, as a recipient of the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. He is among eight fellows selected for 2022. Zhang will be joining the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Fall term to study the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system.


PSD among 2022 U.S. News & World Report top science graduate schools

March 29, 2022

Emblem for the U.S. News & World Report grad schools rankings

The Physical Sciences Division has many programs ranked highly in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report top science graduate schools rankings.


Four Master of Science in Analytics capstone projects recognized with Best in Show

March 29, 2022

Birds flying in the sky

With projects spanning an array of industries, data types, and methodological approaches, the Master of Science in Analytics (MScA) program’s autumn 2021 Capstone Showcase featured an impressive field of twenty-one teams, with four distinguished with Best in Show awards.


PSD alumna and students win ‘Science as Art’ contest

March 28, 2022

The winner of the 2022 UChicago Science as Art contest is “Chondrules in Meteorites #5,” above, by UChicago alum Nicole Xike Nie. This microscope photograph shows a thin section of a meteorite called a chondrite. The blue area in the center is what’

Physical Sciences Division members, including an alumna, a graduate student, and undergraduates, won the first inaugural 'Science as Art' contest run by University of Chicago Communications. See their winning photos.