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UIC Physicists on the Higgs Hunt

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…

UIC Physicists highlighted by Fermilab Today

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…

Nikos Varelas selected as 2012 CMS LPC Senior Fellow

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…

Ursula Perez-Salas publishes in Biophysical Journal

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…

Nikos Varelas elected to the Fermilab Users Executive Committee

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…

Dirk Morr selected as the 2011/12 Leibniz Professor

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…

Christoph Grein elected SPIE Fellow

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…

Siva Sivanantham awarded title of LAS Distinguished Professor

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…

George Crabtree wins Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement's award

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…

Dirk Morr works on developing a new "Science Storms" exhibit

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…