News: Awards

PSD members honored with 2020 Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards

PSD majors in the College earn prestigious national awards.

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to uncover the secret behind the molecule that blocks HIV infection, why ocean circulation may hold the key to finding life on exoplanets, and what 'groupie' galaxies orbiting the Milky Way tell us about dark matter.

Prof. Simion Filip has been awarded a European Mathematical Society Prize in recognition of excellence among researchers under 35

2020 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prizes for Exceptional Service in the PSD awarded to Bryan Dickinson, Margaret Gardel, and Chuan He for contributions to COVID-19 research and relief efforts

Physics graduate student, Daine Danielson, named a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow

Prof. Susan Kidwell honored for pioneering work on fossil record. Paleontological Society Medal recognizes scientist’s conservation paleobiology research

CDAC’s new AI + Science grants fund projects and workshops in chemistry, physics, and CS Education

Physics student, Jan Offermann, among 62 selected by DOE for high energy physics research at Argonne

Two UChicago scientists, Matthew Ackerman and Pranav Gokhale, selected for entrepreneurship program to develop quantum tech

Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, among three UChicago scholars elected to American Philosophical Society. He is a pioneer in studying non-linear and far-from-equilibrium behavior in disordered systems.

Asst. Prof. Suri Vaikuntanathan has been awarded a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in the chemical sciences. The prize of $100,000 will support his research on “Controlling Organization, Self-Assembly, and Dynamics in Complex Non-Equilibrium Systems.”

Chemistry Prof. Guilia Galli one of two UChicago scholars elected to National Academy of Sciences

Six UChicago scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to discover how to best decontaminate N95 masks, develop probes made of DNA to track molecular secrets, and find a math bridge that extends beyond Fermat's Last Theorem.