The department of physics welcomes new faculty member Assistant Professor Zhenyu Ye to the Department and to UIC. Professor Ye earned his PhD in experimental physics at DESY/University of Hamburg, Germany, and joins UIC bringing…
Congratulations to Professor Olga Evdokimov, UIC doctoral student Kolja Kauder, and the High Energy Nuclear group for hosting at UIC a successful Workshop on Heavy Flavor Production in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions on June 17-18, 2012.…
Professor Richard Cavanaugh was interviewed live (via skype from Fermilab) on Canadian TV about the recent possible discovery of the Higgs boson also known as the “God particle”.
LAS distinguished professor George Crabtree is featured in an inspiring video of his vision for UIC and the students of LAS entitled This is LAS: Professor George Crabtree, Guru of Green.
LAS distinguished professor George Crabtree gave the LAS 2012 commencement address to 1,472 undergraduates, 113 graduate students and more than 6,000 family members and friends at the UIC pavilion on the morning of…
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) highlights the work of Professor Nikos Varelas, the UIC high energy particle physics group, and others in a news item “The Quark’s the Thing” available on the SEE Innovation website.…
Congratulations to Visiting Research Professor Randall Espinoza who has been selected as one of the thirteen 2012 Silver Circle Award winners for Excellence in Teaching. This prestigious teaching award is only given once…
Professor Olga Evdokimov was featured in the UIC News (4/18/12) for her work in creating a new heavy flavor quark program at UIC and her key role in creating a significant partnership between UIC and…
We know protons and neutrons are made of quarks, but are quarks made of something even smaller? UIC physicists working on the CMS detector at Fermilab appear in Fermilab Today (3/16/12) for their recent work…
UIC physicists working on the D0 detector at Fermilab appear in Fermi Today (2/9/12) for their recent work in making the most precise determination of the width of the top quark to date. UIC physicists…
UIC physicists working on the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider appear in Fermi Today (2/3/12) because of their work on the measurement of the top quark pair production rate using b-jet identification. UIC…
Robert Klie was featured in the Spring 2012 Edition of AtLAS for his work in bringing a new $3M million dollar Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope to UIC. Prof. Klie, who also has several funded projects…
Congratulations to Professor Serdar Ogut who was elected an American Physical Society Fellow. Dr. Ogut’s citation is “For his contributions to understanding and predicting properties of nanostructures and bulk defects, surfaces, and interfaces…
LAS distinguished professor George Crabtree gave the featured program for the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) on January 31, 2012 entitled “Sustainable Energy: Fact or Fiction”.
Professor Robert Klie was interviewed on NPR and discussed the exciting new frontier that has been opened at UIC with the inauguration of the new scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). In an interview…
Professor Robert Klie, principle investigator and leader of the nanoscale physics group, hosted an inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2012 for a new $3M scanning transmission electron microscope that is the highest resolution in…
Congratulations to Professor Robert Klie who received a 2011-2012 Teaching Recognition Award. Robert Klie was selected by the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) to receive a 2011-2012 Teaching Recognition Award.…
Congratulations to Professor Robert Klie, founding editor of The Journal of Undergraduate Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago”, for the publication of the latest 2012 issue (volume 5). This issue contained numerous…
Professor Nikos Varelas was selected as a 2012 CMS LPC Distinguished Researcher. Professor ?Varelas is working on the search for the Higgs boson produced in association with an electroweak vector boson, with the…
UIC physicists and the continuing search for the elusive Higgs boson. A seminar given at the CERN Large Hadron Collider stated that the latest data recorded by the CMS and ATLAS detectors was…