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).…
Professor Robert Klie has been selected to become Associate Editor for the Journal of Electronic Materials. The Journal of Electronic Materials is published in partnership with the well known Institute of Electronic and…
Professor Zhenyu Ye led work at UIC that was recently highlighted by the division of Nuclear Physics at the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Professor Ye and his team was one of the major institutions,…
The work of professor Anjum Ansari (seated to the left), assistant professor Jung-Hyun Min (Department of Chemistry), and collaborators was featured in the HEADLINES section of the NSF Science 360 News page.Their work,…
Professor Robert Klie was selected as one of UIC’s 2015 Researcher of the Year award winners. The citation from the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research reads: “Dr. Klie’s group focuses…
Congratulations to Lecturer Adrian Barkan, who has been selected to receive a 2014-2015 CETL Teaching Recognition Award. The Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning was particularly “impressed with the range of your [Dr.…
Professor Cecilia Gerber was selected as a 2015 CMS LPC Distinguished Researcher. Professor Gerber ?is a manager for the CMS Forward Pixel Assembly and Testing project and is also working on finalizing a…
Professor Serdar Ogut has been elected as a member of the Bilim Akademisi – the Turkish Science Academy. The Science Academy endorses the time-honored traditions of integrity, independence and social engagement and strives…