Awards

Five UChicago scholars awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships in 2024 Photograph of a gargoyle statue on the campus of the University of Chicago with out-of-focus lights around it

Five UChicago scholars awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships in 2024

Five University of Chicago scholars have earned prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize early-career scholars’ potential to make substantial contributions to their fields. The 2024 Sloan fellows from UChicago include Wilma A. Bainbridge, Kilian Huber, Yuehaw Khoo, Chong Liu and Sunyoung Park.

Meet the UChicago engineer with a key role in Great Lakes water transformation Photo of Junhong Chen in a blue suit with no tie, smiling at camera, with hallway in background

Meet the UChicago engineer with a key role in Great Lakes water transformation

Prof. Junhong Chen of Pritzker Molecular Engineering involved in $160 million federal climate award

UChicago scientist awarded Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for ‘pioneering work’ John Carlstrom

UChicago scientist awarded Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for ‘pioneering work’

Prof. John Carlstrom cited for microwave interferometry and observations of cosmic microwave background

UChicago alum Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of quantum dots Portrait of Moungi Bawendi looking at camera and smiling in front of a chalkboard with a molecule diagram and a wall photo of beakers containing quantum dots in different colors

UChicago alum Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of quantum dots

UChicago statistician Rina Foygel Barber awarded MacArthur Fellowship Prof. Barber stands in front of a chalkboard with equations, looking at the camera

UChicago statistician Rina Foygel Barber awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Prof. Adom Getachew named Freedom Scholar for work advancing racial, economic justice Adom Getachew

Prof. Adom Getachew named Freedom Scholar for work advancing racial, economic justice

Mass extinctions, massive questions: Prof. David Jablonski honored for evolution research Prof. David Jablonski

Mass extinctions, massive questions: Prof. David Jablonski honored for evolution research

Paleontologist receives Darwin-Wallace Medal for unique approach to evolution, extinction studies

Two University of Chicago scientists win 2023 Energy Department Early Career Research awards Aerial view of the University of Chicago

Two University of Chicago scientists win 2023 Energy Department Early Career Research awards

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim wins Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Lek-Heng Lim

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim wins Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

University of Chicago mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld wins prestigious Shaw Prize Portrait of Vladimir Drinfeld smiling on the sunny quadrangles of the UChicago campus

University of Chicago mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld wins prestigious Shaw Prize