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

Cheng Chin receives Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award
January 11, 2022

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.