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Juan de Pablo to receive 2016 DuPont Medal for excellence in nutrition and...
The Danisco Foundation has selected the University of Chicago’s Juan de Pablo as the recipient of the DuPont Nutrition and Health Science and Excellence Medal 2016.The Liew Family Professor in...
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Jared Lewis receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Asst. Prof. Jared LewisdownloadJared Lewis has been selected for a 2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Lewis, an assistant professor in chemistry...
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UChicago scientists receive honors from Simons Foundation, American Chemical...
The Simons Foundation and the American Chemical Society have honored a quartet of faculty members in the Physical Sciences Division.The Simons Foundation has named Jeffrey Harvey, the Enrico Fermi...
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MBL Director Huntington Willard elected to National Academy of Medicine
Huntington F. Willard, president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the...
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Prof. Neil Shubin honored for research on limbs, organ evolution
Neil Shubin, the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy, has been selected to receive the Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum at a Nov. 4...
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Four UChicago faculty members named AAAS fellows
Geoffrey GreenedownloadFour University of Chicago scientists representing the Biological Sciences Division have been named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences....
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Award boosts development of solar cells with atomically thin semiconductors
Chemistry professor Jiwoong Park has won a $120,000 award over two years from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to support a postdoctoral fellow who will help develop advanced photovoltaic...
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National Academy of Sciences honors Prof. Sian Beilock for psychology research
Sian Beilock, the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology, has been awarded the 2017 Troland Research Award for her pioneering work on anxiety and performance in high-stress situations.The National...
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Prof. Thomas Gajewski honored for pioneering cancer research
The National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award to Prof. Thomas Gajewski. The award supports scientists who demonstrate...
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National Academy of Sciences honors Prof. Bernard Roizman for microbiology...
Bernard Roizman, the Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology, has been awarded the 2017 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology for his pivotal research on how herpes viruses...
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Five UChicago scholars awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
Five UChicago faculty members have earned 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships: Bryan Dickinson, assistant professor of chemistry; Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, assistant professor of chemistry; Joseph...
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Prof. David Awschalom awarded defense department grant for high-risk,...
David Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Spintronics and Quantum Information, has been selected as a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, which supports bold and ambitious research that can have...
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Two College students earn Goldwater Scholarships
Two third-years in the College have earned Barry Goldwater Scholarships, which honor undergraduates in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science and engineering.The Goldwater Foundation...
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Alexander Beilinson, Douglas Diamond elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two University of Chicago faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Alexander Beilinson, the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor of Mathematics; and Douglas W....
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Jeffrey Hubbell honored for landmark biomaterials research
Jeffrey Hubbell, the Barry L. MacLean Professor of Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Chicago, recently received the Society for Biomaterials’ 2017 Founders Award, the...
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Marshall Chin elected to National Academy of Medicine
University of Chicago Medicine physician Marshall Chin has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.Chin was one of 80 new members elected to the Academy, it was announced Oct. 16....
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Chuan He honored for contributions to advancing cancer research
Chuan He, the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, is one of three recipients of this year’s Paul Marks Prize...
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Three UChicago faculty members named AAAS fellows
Three members of the University of Chicago faculty were named as 2017 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows are elected by AAAS members for their scientifically or...
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Prof. Richard Thaler delivers Nobel Prize lecture
Until Prof. Richard H. Thaler came along, economists resisted the idea of basing their models on how real people behave. The reality is people don’t always know what they want, much less what’s best...
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Historian Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo receives Humboldt Award
Prof. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo has received a prestigious award from a German foundation for his research on Latin American history.Granted annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany,...
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Award honors Prof. Eugene Parker’s lifetime of physics research
Prof. Emeritus Eugene Parker’s ideas were once widely questioned in the physics world. This week, he will receive one of the field’s highest honors.Parker will receive the American Physical Society’s...
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Two UChicago mathematicians awarded one of field’s top prizes
University of Chicago mathematicians Alexander Beilinson and Vladimir Drinfeld have been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Mathematics “for their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry,...
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Two UChicago faculty members win Sloan research fellowships
University of Chicago chemist Timothy Berkelbach and neurobiologist Mark Sheffield have been awarded Sloan research fellowships.The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gives the awards annually to early-career...
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Two UChicago scientists win fellowships fostering ‘blue-sky’ research
Two University of Chicago scientists have earned fellowships through the U.S. Department of Defense that support innovative, “blue-sky” research at the limits of today’s technology.Profs. David...
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Two undergraduates recognized for academic excellence in STEM fields
Adel Rahman and Naomi Sweeting, third-years in the College, have been awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarships, awarded annually based on academic merit in natural sciences, mathematics, computer science...
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