What determines the structures of simple metals has been a subject of a longstanding debate among researchers, and findings from a new study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
On January 30, 2023, Professor Robert Klie was announced as the new Head in the Department of Physics. In an email to the Department of Physics faculty, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…
George Crabtree, director of the UIC Energy Initiative and distinguished professor of physics and electrical and mechanical engineering, died unexpectedly Jan. 23, 2023. He was 78. Crabtree, an award-winning physicist, was widely known…
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has named UIC physicist George Crabtree winner of its 2022 Energy Systems Award. The honor acknowledges a significant contribution in the broad field of energy systems,…
Adapted from UIC researchers earn distinction as AAAS fellows | UIC Today Dr. Cecilia Gerber has been elected to the newest class of American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows, one…
A new study appearing in Science suggests that Earth-like planets outside of the solar system are likely to have a longer duration of magnetically shielded habitability than Earth. University of Illinois Chicago professor Russell Hemley…
A new study featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a potential alternate approach that combines pressure and electrochemistry to stabilize superhydrides at moderate, perhaps even close to ordinary, pressures. Superhydrides…
UIC is home to one of the nation’s foremost scholars in physics, chemistry and materials science. In a prominent career spanning four decades, Russell Hemley has explored the behavior of matter and materials…
For over two years, a select group of educators at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) from the natural sciences have been meeting regularly to participate in professional development studios to help their…
The University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded a $2.25 million, five-year grant to establish a Research Center of Excellence by the U.S. Army through a program that aims to expand and diversify…
Six to be inducted at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2021 meeting held virtually this August. Adapted from the original article by the Microscopy Society of America on May 6, 2021 – The Microscopy…
Professor Cecilia Gerber has been named a distinguished professor in the 2020-2021 academic year. The UIC Distinguished Professorship recognizes scholarship, creativity and leadership. Faculty members are nominated by their peers and are selected…
Original Article Published at Physical Review Journals The discovery of near room temperature superconductivity in clathrate hydrides has ignited the search for both higher temperature superconductors and deeper understanding of the underlying physical…
A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded a $3 million, three-year U.S. Department of Defense award to establish an undergraduate research mentoring program in science, technology, engineering & math.
In two recently published studies, University of Illinois Chicago physicist Robert Klie and colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Nion Company developed and demonstrated ultra high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy...
Lopa Bhatt, a physics major studying electron microsopy, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The nationally competitive award is widely recognized as the most prestigious scholarship available…
The High Energy Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded the 2019 prize for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics to the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and D-Zero (D0)…
Assistant Professor James Unwin, along with collaborator Dr. Jakub Scholtz of the University of Durham, recently put forth an exciting hypothesis about a possible black hole on the edge of our solar system.…
A collaboration between UIC physics researchers led by Professor Dirk Morr, the University of Melbourne (Australia), and the University of Hamburg (Germany) have theoretically predicted and successfully imaged an exotic quantum particle known…
