Congratulations to Kui Wang, currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Hemley group at UIC, for receiving a Distinguished Student Grant Award at the 2025 American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim,…
Research at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has led to the discovery of giant negative linear compressibility in copper cyanide (CuCN) in which the material behaves like a “wine rack” expanding in…
A Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) has just been installed at UIC. This unique, versatile, and highly configurable instrument will measure electrical, magnetic, thermal transport, and thermodynamic properties of materials over…
Members of the Spille Lab attended the 69th Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, California, to present their research on the nanoscale organization of the cell nucleus. Graduate student Ganesh Pandey won the Student…
Superconductivity, in which electrons flow with zero resistance, has long defied simple explanation. In 1997, a team led by UIC scientist Russell Hemley showed that under pressure, sulfur becomes an elemental superconductor, making it an ideal…
New experiments by UIC scientists could advance technologies that rely on materials with an unusual property called ferroelectricity. Ferroelectric materials can spontaneously polarize and stay polarized until they’re exposed to an electric field.…
Professor Mark Schlossman has been named a 2024-2025 University Scholar. The program provides a three-year award to faculty members who have demonstrated superior performance in scholarly activities in both research and teaching and…
New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today’s biggest challenges: building superconductors that operate at normal temperatures and pressures. Superconductors are used widely…
Ir-Jene Shan has been granted a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to study a scattering mediated Franck-Condon electron emission processes in metal photocathodes at the Stanford…
Just 20 miles separate Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, and the downtown campus of University of Illinois Chicago. But starting this year, the research mission of the two Chicagoland institutions that formed…
For nearly a century, a technique called liquid-liquid extraction has been standard practice in science and industry. It’s used to purify rare earth metals, treat nuclear waste and make perfumes and other consumer…
As an undergraduate, Robert Klie wanted to be an astrophysicist, studying cosmic objects with the world’s most powerful telescopes. But he soon became fascinated with the galaxies closer to home: the atomic particles that make…
Graduate student Beren Ozek has been named a Meenakshi Narain Graduate Scholar at the Fermilab Large Hadron Collider Physics Center (LPC) for 2024. This program is aimed to support exceptional Graduate Students from the…
Graduate student Francisco Lagunas has been awarded the Graduate College’s Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled “Utilizing Cryogenic STEM for the Study of Low Dimensional Functional Materials”. In 2019, Francisco became a…
Rick Frueh, Instrument Maker in the LAS Physical Sciences Machine Shop has been selected for the 2023 Award of Merit. The Award of Merit is designed to recognize outstanding Civil Service and Academic…
On April 28th, 2023, UIC hosted the 2nd Annual Biophysics Student Symposium. The event was organized by a group of graduate students from the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering, and aimed…
Every year since 1996, UIC’s graduating seniors honor outstanding educators with the Silver Circle Award. This year, Prof. Adrian Barkan was chosen as one of the winners of the award. Learn more about…
Dr. Huan-Xiang Zhou’s research group publishes four papers in March. All four papers report on how proteins perform their functions in a membrane environment. A major approach of the Zhou group is molecular…
