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…
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…
An article in Fermilab Today covers Professor Rick Cavanaugh’s appointment as the next Co-coordinator of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab. LPC is providing support for CMS collaborators working in…
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…
Top quarks — subatomic particles that perish almost instantly after creation, previously found only in pairs — have been detected in single form, thanks in large part to work by Professor Cecilia Gerber.…
The Fermilab DZero single top quark group co-led by Professor Cecilia Gerber has firmly established the single top production by passing strict statistical tests. The discovery was announced by Cecilia in a special Fermilab…
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…
The physics department congratulates Utpal Chatterjee, winner of the Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award in Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences for 2008!
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…
The September edition of the UIC Spark Alumni Newsletter features Professor Tom Imbo and Adjunct Professor Mark Mueller, who is also chair of the LAS Board of Visitors, and highlights their exceptional mentorship…
Physics Alumnus Professor George W. Crabtree (PhD 1974), who was Elected to National Academy of Sciences this past spring is featured in the new E-AtLAS newsletter.