News: 2020

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

From outdoor art to laboratory COVID-19 research, a look at UChicago’s Autumn Quarter

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

KICP Fellow Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil is the star of a Science Friday film documentary, Breakthrough. It recounts the Turkish-born astrophysicists journey through STEM and breakthrough galaxy discovery.

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Read the PSD Communications blog Intentional Space for simple strategies to help you navigate working from home and heightening your awareness. This blog series by PSD Communications Specialist Maureen McMahon will run during Spring Quarter. Find simple work-from-home routines, mindfulness strategies, and ways to cultivate a peaceful day.

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

Oct 7-9 IMSI conference to explore how math, statistics can address global problems

“Bracelet of Silence” Named Finalist in 2020 Fast Company Design Awards

Young-Kee Kim appointed Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Scientific Initiatives

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
 

The University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) has secured $10 million in new funding through two gifts: a $5 million gift from an anonymous alumnus and his wife and a match of $5 million from The Kavli Foundation. The first gift will name the directorship of the Institute in memory of Prof. David N. Schramm, a legendary professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
 

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