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…
The work of Professor Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi and collaborators have solved a long-standing puzzle concerning the question of how the boundary between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity. The work is the culmination of…
Congratulations to graduate student Asmamaw Asrat A Demise, who was selected to receive a Heyning-Roelli Foundation scholarship. This significant award will enable Asrat to study abroad at ETH, one of the premier universities…
Professor Dirk Morr joins other faculty and researchers from UIC, U of C, Argonne and other universities to discuss their research at the annual Pint of Science Festival. Professor Morr ?will talk about…
Professor Robert Klie has been invited to become a member of the editorial board for Scientific Reports, a journal from the publishers of Nature. Scientific Reports is a multidisciplinary, open access publication covering…
Professor Andrew Tillotson was selected as a 2015 Silver Circle teaching award winner! ?The Silver Circle Award, given since 1966, has been presented to some of UIC’s best teachers and is very special…
Professor Dirk Morr has been awarded a Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. These Fellowships are presented to internationally recognized scientists to conduct research in Germany. Professor Morr will use his Fellowship to…
Professor Emeritus Arnold Bodmer was honored at the 2015 Legacies & Leaders event held on the evening of April 23, 2015. UIC President Easter and president-designate Timothy Killeen spoke at the event that…
UIC Distinguished Professor George Crabtree was featured in a video created by the PEW Charitable Trusts on Energy Storage: Building a Better Battery via Public-Private Partnership, where he talks about the need for…
Professor Emeritus Mark Adams was featured in a video sponsored by Fermilab about STEM education in our high schools. Professor Adams has been a long-time leader and mentor ?for the UIC QuarkNet outreach…
Professor Dirk Morr has been appointed associate-PI at the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center. The center’s research focuses on understanding the microscopic mechanism underlying unconventional superconductors, with the…
LAS Distinguished Professor Siva Sivananthan was highlighted in a major speech given by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on the importance of federal research funding for the country. ?Senator Durbin ?spoke at the Chicago…
UIC Department of Physics members Dr. Doug Berry, Dr. Paul Turner, and graduate student Daniel Sandoval were highlighted in Fermilab Today (4/10/15) for their crucial work on the CMS forward silicon pixel detector…
In July 2015, Professor Dirk Morr is co-organizing the international conference Quantum Design at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany (see photograph to the right).…