Professor W. Andreas Schroeder, along with graduate students Ben Rickman, Joel Berger, and collaborator Alan Nicholls (UIC-RRC), has published a significant study in Physical Review Letters on the effect of electron effective mass on the divergence of electrons…
On December 3, 2013, LAS Distinguished Professor Siva Sivananthan gave an hour-long webinar hosted by American Physics Society (APS) and moderated by Georgia State University’s Professor Unil Perera dissecting the trials and tribulations…
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Nikos Varelas has been named a 2013 AAAS Fellow for his contributions to the field of experimental particle physics. One of only 388 American Association for…
Professor Cecilia Gerber is a manager on the project for a brand-new pixel detector designed and built by a team at Fermilab in collaboration with 19 U.S. universities (including University of Illinois at…
The department of physics welcomes new faculty member Assistant Professor Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi to the Department and to UIC. Professor Khalili-Araghi earned her PhD in computational biological physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and did her postdoctoral work…
Professor Nikos Varelas has been selected as a University Scholar for 2013. The University Scholars Program was created to honor and reward outstanding teachers and scholars. In 2013, 14 awards were made, with…
Professor Ho-Ung Yee is one of four co-editors of the new book “Lecture Notes in Physics: Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields” out in 2013 from Springer Publishing. The book is described as…
On June 25, UIC Physics Professor Nikos Varelas participated in the user facilities panel discussion at the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) Leadership Forum Series with Reps. Hultgren, Lipinski, and Foster. The…
LAS distinguished professor Sivalingam Sivananthan was one of eleven people named as Immigrant Innovator “Champions of Change” by the White House. The Champions event highlights immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs-the best and brightest from…
LAS distinguished professor Siva Sivananthan was elected SPIE Fellow for his contributions to the development of II-VI photovoltaic materials. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving…
Members of the InSPIRE student organization, many of whom are physics students, organized a workshop on Tuesday, April 23 from 5:30 – 8:30 PM in 2108 SEL at UIC that attracted graduate and…
Students from the Microphysics Lab participated in the annual UIC Student Research Forum on April 16th. Chris Buurma, Eric Colegrove, Jin Hwan Park and Tejumade Durowade of MPL showcased their work with poster presentations giving…
On April 2nd, U.S. Congressman Mike Quigley visited the Department of Physics and met with the students and researchers of the Microphysics Laboratory to hear about MPL’s current research programs and their real-life applications. In…
Congratulations to Clinical Professor Andy Tillotson, who has been selected to receive a 2013-2014 CETL Teaching Recognition Award. The Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning recognize Professor Tillotson for being “an excellent example…
Doctoral student Qiao Qiao has been selected to receive a 2013 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Award. The award will be conferred at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2013 meeting during the opening Plenary Session. Qiao…
Congratulations to graduate student Runzhe Tao, who won a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award. MRS Graduate Student Awards “honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high…
Professor Mark Adams and Professor Cecilia Gerber, along with post-doctorates Bazterra and Strom, and PhD student Khalatian were featured in Fermilab Today (2/08/13) for the results of their work searching for the hypothetical Z-prime boson with…
Congratulations to Professor Olga Evdokimov who received a 2012-2013 Teaching Recognition Award. Professor Evdokimov was selected by the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) to receive a 2012-2013 Teaching Recognition Award.…
Congratulations to Professor Dirk Morr who was elected an American Physical Society Fellow. Professor Morr’s citation is “For contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron materials and complex phenomena at the nanoscale“. Additional…
Congratulations to Professor Chris Grein who was elected an American Physical Society Fellow. Professor Grein’s citation is “For achievements in novel superlattice-based infrared detectors and emitters“. Additional details will be published in the March…