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…
Congratulations to Professor Dirk Morr who has been awarded an esteemed Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden,…
UIC Physicists use the Top Quark to Search for New Physics. The work of UIC Physics members Professor Cecilia Gerber, Dr. Victor Bazterra, Phillip Eller, and Christfried Focke is highlighted in the “Results…
Congratulations to Professor Nikos Varelas who was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Particles and Fields (DPF). Professor Varelas will serve a three-year term on the DPF…
LAS distinguished professor Sivalingam Sivananthan co-chaired The 2011 U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials, which will be held in Chicago in October 2011. The special issue editorial coordinator is UIC’s own Yesim…
Professor Nikos Varelas has been selected as a 2012 CMS LPC Senior Fellow. Other winners are from Brown University, CERN, Imperial College London, Rutgers, and the University of Florida. Fellow’s are selected for…
A study by Professor Ursula Perez-Salas, her postdoc Dr. Sumit Garg and their colleagues published in Biophysical Journal (2011) has shown that cholesterol travels within membranes more slowly than expected. The reviews of that paper…
Professor Nikos Varelas has been elected to the Fermilab Users Executive Committee for the 2011-2013 term. The Fermilab Users Organization is an organization of scientists and engineers engaged in advancing our understanding of the nature…
Professor Nikos Varelas has received an invitation to deliver a plenary talk at upcoming International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics in Grenoble (France) on July 21-27, 2011.