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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…

Siva Sivananthan and Cecilia Gerber elected as APS Fellows

Congratulations to Professor Sivalingam Sivananthan and Professor Cecilia Gerber, who have each been elected an APS Fellow. Professor Gerber’s citation is “For her numerous contributions to the DO experiment, especially the implementation of the DO…

Juan Carlos Campuzano and Utpal Chatterjee publish in Nature

Congratulations to Professor Juan Carlos Campuzano and his former student and postdoc Utpal Chatterjee with pulication of their Nature Physics paper, which addresses a key question in condensed-matter physics of how high-temperature superconductivity emerges…

Cecilia Gerber and Serdar Ogut receive 2007-2008 TRP Award

Congratulations to Professor Cecilia Gerber and Professor Serdar Ogut, 2007-2008 Teaching Recognition Program (TRP) Award winners! The award is given annually to UIC professors demonstrating outstanding performance in their teaching activities over a three…

UIC Physicists participate in discovery of a new particle

UIC Physicists together with their collaborators at the DZero experiment at Fermilab have participated in discovery of a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains two strange quarks and…