News: Faculty

A new study, published in Science Advances, demonstrates the use of charged nanoscale metal-organic frameworks for generating free radicals using X-rays within tumor tissue to kill cancer cells directly. Furthermore, the same frameworks can be used for delivering immune signaling molecules known as PAMPs to activate the immune response against tumor cells. By combining these two approaches into one easily administered “vaccine,” this new technology may provide the key to better local and systemic treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers.

Possibility of dark bosons entices physicists like Elina Fuchs of Enrico Fermi Institute. Hints of anomalous activity in heavy isotopes could be clues to new physics

UChicago chemists invent way to customize compounds just a few atoms thick
 

Geosciences professor David Jablonski discusses mass extinction with National Geographic

Event Horizon Telescope, including UChicago-led South Pole Telescope, reveals turbulent evolution

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.

Welcome to the new faculty members joining the Physical Sciences Division during the '20-21 academic year!

Is there life on Venus? Chicago’s WGN news interviews astrochemist Jennifer Bergner

Prof. Robert Rosner elected Vice President of the American Physical Society, will become President in 2023

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate

Prof. John Carlstrom comments on UChicago's leadership among a 93-institution coalition to use telescopes at the South Pole and Chile

The Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW) conference exists to create a space for women, who are historically underrepresented in mathematical fields, to network and learn about graduate research opportunities, graduate program admissions, and career options after they complete a degree. 

LIGO/Virgo has spotted a collision of dark giants that sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth

UChicago scientists invent first-of-its-kind method for pacemakers, other applications

The University of Chicago named as member of APS-IDEA network, a consortium of physics departments, laboratories, and research collaborations committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)