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.
Professor Dirk Morr has been selected as the 2011/12 Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany. This prestigious professorship is awarded to internationally renowned scientists to promote interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and…
Professor Christoph Grein, was elected SPIE Fellow for achievements in novel mercury cadmium telluride materials and infrared detectors. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more…
Congratulations to Professor Cecilia Gerber who was named UIC 2011 Researcher of the Year in the Natural Sciences and Engineering for her leading role in the discovery of the single top quark production…
Professor Juan Carlos Campuzano, the University of Illinois at Chicago Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics, is the 2011 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient. Prof. Campuzano receives this prize for:…
Professor George Crabtree has been chosen as a recipient of the honorary title of UIC Distinguished Professor for AY 2010-2011 in recognition of his significant impact upon his field through scholarship, creativity and…
Professor Sivalingam Sivanantham is one of three LAS Faculty members awarded a title of LAS Distinguished Professor in the 2010-2011 academic year. This honor recognizes invaluable contributions Sivananthan made to our community as…
Professor David Hofman has been selected as one of the eleven recipients of the 2010 Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching. This is the second time Dr. Hofman has been selected as…
Professor George Crabtree wins the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement’s award. “University of Common Sense: Engaging your personal, institutional and civic carbon footprints” organized by George Crabtree was one of nine civic engagement…
Over the last 7 years, Professor Dirk Morr has been working with the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on developing a new state-of-the-art science exhibit, called Science Storms. This exhibit is to open on…