January
Undergraduate honored by Association for Women in Mathematics
January 14, 2019
Naomi Sweeting, a fourth-year in the College, has been awarded the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize, given annually by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics.
Astronomer Receives Lifetime Service Award
January 11, 2019
Donald York, the Horace B. Horton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, won this year’s Royal Astronomical Society Service Award for his lifetime contribution to astronomy.
UChicago graduate student helps discover rare exoplanet using Kepler data
January 10, 2019
Although NASA's Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel and ended its mission in 2018, citizen scientists, including UChicago graduate student Adina Feinstein, have used its data to discover an exoplanet 226 light-years away in the Taurus constellation.
Nancy Grace Roman, ‘mother of Hubble,’ 1925-2018
January 3, 2019
Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief of astronomy and one of the first women executives for the agency, died at the age of 93.