2023
UChicago alum Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of quantum dots
October 4, 2023
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Research by Bawendi, PhD’88, paved way for wide use of nano-sized particles in technology.
Congrats to Geophysical Sciences professor Andrew M. Davis for winning Leonard Medal!
October 3, 2023
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The Leonard Medal, the Meteoritical Society's highest honor, "recognizes Prof. Davis' fundamental contributions to meteoritics and cosmochemistry across a wide range of investigations pertaining to time scales and processes in the solar nebula and to the synthesis of the elements in stars."
Five UChicago CS students named to Siebel Scholars Class of 2024
September 22, 2023
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Jas Brooks, Kuntai Du, Miao Li, Madeleine Roberts, and Divij Sinha were selected to the prestigious program’s Class of 2024.
UChicago Researchers win Internet Defense Prize and Distinguished Paper Awards at USENIX Security
September 15, 2023
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Among the top recognized at this year's USENIX Security Symposium were the Glaze Project and SUPERgroup's collaborative research on the vulnerability of university’s passwords to attacks leveraging password reuse.
Congratulations to Chuan He for winning the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year!
September 13, 2023
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Chuan He, who was shortlisted last month for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year, has been named the 2023 laureate for Life Sciences.
Three UChicago organic chemists have been selected for 2024 ACS national awards!
September 8, 2023
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Congratulations to...
Viresh Rawal: ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Guangbin Dong: Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
Mark Levin: Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics welcomes Brinson Prize Fellow Daniel Gilman
September 8, 2023
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Congratulations to Daniel Gilman, who has been named a Brinson Prize Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Crain’s Chicago Business Notable Women in STEM honors three PSD scientists
September 6, 2023
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Congratulations to Prof. Marcela Carena, Prof. Wendy Freedman, and Dean of the Physical Sciences Division Angela Olinto! The three PSD scientists have been named Notable Women in STEM by Crain's Chicago Business.
Congratulations to Chuan He for winning the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry!
August 29, 2023
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Elsevier and the Board of Executive Editors of Elsevier’s Tetrahedron journal series are pleased to announce that the 2023 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Chuan He, Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Chuan He shortlisted for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023
August 22, 2023
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Congratulations to UChicago chemist Chuan He for his inclusion on the shortlist for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023. He is recognized for “Breaking the Wall of Food Insecurity.”
To learn more about He's work, read his interview with Falling Walls.
Mass extinctions, massive questions: Prof. David Jablonski honored for evolution research
August 14, 2023
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UChicago paleontologist David Jablonski receives Darwin-Wallace Medal for unique approach to evolution, extinction studies.
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Physicist Jeffrey Harvey named a 2023 Dirac Medallist
August 10, 2023
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Congratulations to Jeffrey Harvey, the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, for winning a 2023 Dirac Medal. The award recognizes wide-ranging contributions to string theory, a mathematical framework in fundamental physics that aims to describe the entirety of the whole universe.
UChicago physicist Zoe Yan named 2023 laureate of the Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists
August 9, 2023
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Physics Zoe Yan for being named the 2023 laureate in the Physical Sciences & Engineering category. She is recognized for developing the first quantum gas microscope on single, ultracold molecules and applying this technique to explore important phenomena relevant to high-temperature superconductors and other quantum materials.
Mark Levin wins BMS Unrestricted Grantee Award, grad student Jisoo Woo awarded 2023-2024 BMS Graduate Fellowship
August 9, 2023
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Congratulations to Associate Professor of Chemistry Mark Levin for winning the 2023 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grantee Award and Jisoo Woo, who works as part of the Levin Group, for winning the 2023 BMS Graduate Fellowship for his achievements in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
Two University of Chicago scientists win 2023 Energy Department Early Career Research awards
August 7, 2023
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Two scientists with the University of Chicago, including assistant professor of physics Clay Córdova, have been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2023 Early Career Research Program. The awardees will receive five-year grants to investigate quantum field theory and electrochemical energy storage.