News: Awards

2025

Greg Voth Receives 2025 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry

March 31, 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

JFI Grad Students Claire Jones, Noah Mason, Emma McNesby, & Andy Zhang Receive NSF Research Fellowships

April 29, 2024


2023

2023 Winners of the JFI Image Contest

October 9, 2023


2022

2022 Fellows of American Physical Society Announced

October 20, 2022


2022 AVS Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award Recipient Announced as Julia Murphy

September 12, 2022


2022 JFI Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Winner Announced

August 30, 2022


U.S. Department of Energy Awards $12.5 million to UChicago for new Energy Frontier Research Center

August 30, 2022


5 JFI Students Announced Recipients of NSF GFRP

May 10, 2022


Andrei Tokmakoff Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2022


Laura Gagliardi Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

April 29, 2022


5th Year Physics Student Wins Two Science Communication Awards

March 21, 2022


Norbert Scherer Announced As Optica’s C.E.K. Mees Medal

March 4, 2022

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Cheng Chin receives Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award

January 11, 2022

Cheng Chin

Promoting new research directions in the physical and mathematical sciences.

Professor Cheng Chin has received the ’21–’22 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award, a Divisional honor that provides $100,000 for intellectually exciting and innovative research ventures that enable new research directions.

Chin joined the University of Chicago in 2005 and has been a full professor in the Department of Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the James Franck Institute since 2012. He is a pioneer in using ultracold atoms to study the quantum phenomena that underlie the behavior of other particles in the universe.

“I am very excited about this generous support from the PSD, and especially from Stuart Rice,” he said. “The fund will enable a brand new research line into molecular quantum matter, on which my students and I are very excited to begin.”

The Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award was established by the family of Stuart Alan Rice, the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Chemistry and former chairman of the Department of Chemistry and dean of the Physical Sciences (1981-1995). It is awarded annually to promote new directions of research in the physical and mathematical sciences at the University of Chicago.