Professor George Crabtree wins the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement’s award. “University of Common Sense: Engaging your personal, institutional and civic carbon footprints” organized by George Crabtree was one of nine civic engagement…
Over the last 7 years, Professor Dirk Morr has been working with the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on developing a new state-of-the-art science exhibit, called Science Storms. This exhibit is to open on…
Congratulations to Professor Sivalingam Sivananthan and Professor Cecilia Gerber, who have each been elected an APS Fellow. Professor Gerber’s citation is “For her numerous contributions to the DO experiment, especially the implementation of the DO…
An article in Fermilab Today covers Professor Rick Cavanaugh’s appointment as the next Co-coordinator of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab. LPC is providing support for CMS collaborators working in…
Congratulations to Professor Juan Carlos Campuzano and his former student and postdoc Utpal Chatterjee with pulication of their Nature Physics paper, which addresses a key question in condensed-matter physics of how high-temperature superconductivity emerges…
Top quarks — subatomic particles that perish almost instantly after creation, previously found only in pairs — have been detected in single form, thanks in large part to work by Professor Cecilia Gerber.…
The Fermilab DZero single top quark group co-led by Professor Cecilia Gerber has firmly established the single top production by passing strict statistical tests. The discovery was announced by Cecilia in a special Fermilab…
Congratulations to Professor Cecilia Gerber and Professor Serdar Ogut, 2007-2008 Teaching Recognition Program (TRP) Award winners! The award is given annually to UIC professors demonstrating outstanding performance in their teaching activities over a three…
The physics department congratulates Utpal Chatterjee, winner of the Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award in Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences for 2008!
UIC Physicists together with their collaborators at the DZero experiment at Fermilab have participated in discovery of a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains two strange quarks and…
The September edition of the UIC Spark Alumni Newsletter features Professor Tom Imbo and Adjunct Professor Mark Mueller, who is also chair of the LAS Board of Visitors, and highlights their exceptional mentorship…
Physics Alumnus Professor George W. Crabtree (PhD 1974), who was Elected to National Academy of Sciences this past spring is featured in the new E-AtLAS newsletter.
Congratulations to Alejandro Rebola, who has been chosen to receive a SKIT-HST GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP for the 2008/2009 school year. SKIT is an exciting opportunity to participate in the Chicago Public School’s system-wide efforts…
Professor George W. Crabtree, a senior scientist and administrator at the Argonne National Laboratory, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research. George holds…
Congratulations to Weronica Walkosz, who has been awarded a Dean’s Scholar Fellowship from the Graduate College for AY 08-09! The Physics Department also wishes University Fellowship winner Yutao Gong, and all the new…
Undergraduate UIContest winner Michael Greco has received Honorable Mention at the 2008 UIC Student Research Forum for his poster entitled “Femtosecond, Thermal-lens-shaped Yb:KGW Laser.” Congratulations Mike!
The Physics Department extends congratulations to Professor Robert Klie for his receipt of the 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career (CAREER) Development Award, one of the most competitive awards to honor young…
In AY 08-09 the Physics Department will host a group of exchange students from Dongguk University. The exchange program initiated by the Physics Department and MPL is part of a cooperative agreement between UIC…
Professor Olga Barannikova has been appointed a deputy spokesperson for the STAR detector collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.