Dr. Doug Berry and Dr. Zhenbin Wu, both postdoctoral researchers in the UIC Department of Physics, have won Achievement Awards for their contributions to the CMS Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research…
Visiting Research Assistant Professor James Unwin has been named a Humboldt Research Fellow by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The foundation, based in Germany, supports cutting-edge research by scientists around the globe. The…
A conjecture Professor Dirk Morr made nearly twenty years has recently been confirmed through a collaboration with the experimental neutron scattering group led by Pengcheng Dai at Rice University. In the late 1990s, Morr was a…
Scientists at UIC just brought us closer than ever to a carbon-neutral future. A group of researchers in the College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have constructed a…
Distinguished Professor Siva Sivananthan received a Presidential Award from Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. The award, presented on September 7th at the president’s residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, recognizes Professor Sivananthan for his…
Professor Dirk Morr has been selected as a 2016 Scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). These scholarships are presented to internationally recognized scientists to conduct research in Germany. During his stay…
One of the world’s foremost physics laboratories is just 30 miles from UIC. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL has seen some of the biggest discoveries in modern physics: the top…
Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tigran Kalaydzhyan is making a name for himself in the field of particle physics. In a series of papers published in 2015-2016, Dr. Kalaydzhyan proposes new methods for gravity tests…
Graduating senior Jeff Harvey was honored with a 2016 Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the UIC student community. For Harvey, physics is more than just…
You’ve seen Dave Kuntzelman in the machine shop, creating custom instruments for the UIC physics department. But did you know he’s also an avid fly fisherman? In his leisure time, Kuntzelman crafts intricate…
Physicists at the UIC Microphysics Laboratory and EPIR Technologies, Inc. have made a substantial contribution to a space mission that may help decode some of the universe’s most intriguing mysteries. The ASTRO-H mission,…
In 1966, the Beatles played their farewell concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Star Trek first aired on television, and gasoline cost an average of 32…
Professor Dirk Morr has been named a 2015 University Scholar. The award provides three years of support to outstanding UIC faculty members who have significant achievements in research and teaching, and whose research…
Congratulations to Professor and Associate Head Mark Schlossman, recently named a winner of the 2015 UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching. During his many years of service to the physics department, Professor Schlossman…
Everyone knows academic writing has too much jargon. Except that not everyone agrees. An article in ?The Chronicle of Higher Education by legal scholar Cass Sunstein defends scholarly verbiage against its critics – and cites…
Junior Barak Stoltz spent two weeks in December on Mars—or at least, the closest analog available on Earth: The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. The station, operated by the Mars Society, recruits researchers for missions meant to simulate…
Liang Hong has won an Ovshinksy Student Travel Award from the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Materials Physics (DMP). Hong is one of ten recipients of the highly competitive award, which provides…
At this fall’s Graduate College Commencement we will be especially remembering one of our own, physics graduate student Christine O’Brien, whose parents will be accepting her Masters degree in physics. Christine died on…
Graduate student Daniel Sandoval and postdoctoral researchers Dr. Doug Berry and Dr. Paul Turner were highlighted for their contributions to a Frontier Science Result in a search for unexpected yields of top quark-antiquark…
Hallie Trauger was chosen by the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation as a member of its 2015 cohort of Teaching Fellows. This year, 34 promising high school mathematics and science teachers who are just beginning their careers were awarded…