News: Awards

Guangbin Dong awarded Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award

Prof. Greg Voth awarded 2021 Biophysical Society Innovation Award recognizing his theoretical and computational contributions to complex biological problems

Astronomy and astrophysics professor James Truran has been awarded the 2021 Hans Bethe Prize for distinguished contributions across the breadth of nuclear astrophysics, galactic chemical evolution and cosmochronology

Andrea Ghez, UChicago Laboratory Schools alum, wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Five UChicago CS Students Named in 2021 Class of Seibel Scholars

This summer the Physical Sciences Division announced several institutional advancements, like the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, major NSF support for materials science research, and exciting developments with CMB collaborations. Read the full list of articles for July, August, and September.

Prof. Fred Chong named to National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

2020 Marlene F. Richman Award Winner: Julie Feder

University of Chicago to award six honorary degrees at 2021 Convocation

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to find evidence of the elusive Axion Particle, develop UV light disinfection arrays for N95 masks, and identify that a mysterious interstellar visitor was a dark hydrogen iceberg.

Three PSD students have been awarded the Physical Sciences Teaching Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Awardees include Jesus Alvarez and Clare Keenan of the Department of Chemistry and Aaron Slipper of the Department of Mathematics.

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

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.

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

PSD members honored with 2020 Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards