2025
Greg Voth Receives 2025 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
March 31, 2025
April 3: Alain Aspect To Give Fano Lecture
March 12, 2025
Arvind Murugan Awarded 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize
March 12, 2025
Arvind Murugan was awarded the 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics for his "pivotal contributions to understanding the informatics of various biological processes, and specifically for leveraging molecular complexity of disordered systems for efficient physical computation and learning." The prize awards researchers for originality and excellence in the field of Biophysics.
2 JFI Faculty Receive Sloan Fellowships
February 28, 2025
Both Sarah King and Luca Delacrétaz were awarded 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize faculty for their creativity and innovation as well as potential for leadership in their fields.
2024
$4.8 million grant from NIH BRAIN Initiative for novel PEEM Microscope
October 31, 2024
Sarah King and collaborators at UChicago, Chicago State University, and University of Illinois Chicago were awarded $4.8 million from the NIH BRAIN Initiative toward developing a novel PEEM microscope designed for brain connectomics.
Steven Sibener Elected to the Royal Society of Chemistry
April 29, 2024
JFI Grad Students Claire Jones, Noah Mason, Emma McNesby, & Andy Zhang Receive NSF Research Fellowships
April 29, 2024
Vincenzo Vitelli Authors Textbook on Soft Matter
April 29, 2024
2023
MRSEC teams discover method for direct measurement of non-Newtonian fluids
December 20, 2023
Over 180 researchers attend the Midwest Cold Atom Workshop
November 14, 2023
M-STAR Center Awarded $1.8 Million by NSF for Phase 1
October 20, 2023
2023 Winners of the JFI Image Contest
October 9, 2023
Sidney Nagel awarded 2023 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research
February 8, 2023
Sidney Nagel was awarded the 2023 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research
Ka Yee Lee named Biophysical Society Fellow
February 8, 2023
Ka Yee Lee is named a 2023 Biophysical Society Fellow
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest and Norbert Scherer named AAAS Fellows
February 8, 2023
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest and Norbert Scherer are named 2002 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science