In the Media
Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
Features
Prof. Dan Holz features in New York Times article, How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air
January 19, 2024
Prof. Daniel Holz discusses new research that shows black holes may form in different ways than expected
In the Media
Benoit Roux featured in article by Phys.org, Molecular pump study explores how brine shrimp thrive in high salinity
January 19, 2024
The article focuses on a study he conducted with multiple other scholars titled "A Na pump with reduced stoichiometry is upregulated by brine shrimp in extreme salinities""
Features
Kristine Palmieri Highlights Women Astronomers in New Article for Physics Today
November 06, 2023
In “They were astronomers,” IFK postdoctoral researcher Kristine Palmieri presents the vibrant history of women workers at UChicago’s Yerkes Observatory in the early twentieth century.
In the Media
Jordan Bimm featured in The Scientific American “Artemis I Launches U.S.‘s Long-Awaited Return to the Moon”
November 16, 2022
Artemis I: The first flight test of the world’s most powerful rocket will send an uncrewed spacecraft to lunar orbit and back.
News
How companies can be legal, but unethical
July 01, 2022
Scholars Kimberly Kay Hoang and Hal Weitzman discussed their new books, which both explore how corporations around the world exploit loopholes
News
James Evans’ Research Featured in “The Cost of Zoom”
April 28, 2022
All those Zoom meetings could be stunting innovation at work.News
Brad Bolman receives various honorable mentions for essay awards and research grant
December 02, 2021
Honorable mentions from FHHMLS Graduate Essay Award and FHHS John C. Burnham Early Career Award and Received Royal Society Lisa Jardine GrantNews
Ana Klimchynskaya receives the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant!
December 02, 2021
Congratulations to IFK Postdoc Ana Klimchynskaya on receiving the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant! The New Scholar Program supports scholars of outstanding promise in
News
IFK Faculty Eve L. Ewing and Michael Rossi Receive the 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
November 15, 2021
IFK Core Faculty Michael Rossi and SIFK Faculty Research Grant Recipient Eve Ewing recently received the prestigious 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
In the Media
America Needs a New Scientific Revolution
November 05, 2021
James Evans' research on scientific progress and the "ossification" of research
Announcements
Eve Ewing selected to give the faculty welcome at the inauguration of President Paul Alivisatos
October 27, 2021
Ewing is an award-winning author and sociologist of education whose work focuses on the impact of racism and social inequality in K-12 public school systems
In the Media
Dido’s Bar: The Origin Myth featuring Shadi Bartsch Zimmer
October 27, 2021
Dido's Bar podcast with guest Shadi Bartsch on Virgil's Aeneid, why it's so brilliant and how it's retained so much resonance and significance today
In the Media
IFK Postdoc Jordan Bimm comments on Jeff Bezos’ commercial space station
October 26, 2021
Blue Origin, the private aerospace company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced plans Monday to launch a commercial space station, named Orbital Reef.
In the Media
SJ Zhang discusses “marronage” in the Caribbean in Teen Vogue article
October 15, 2021
African Americans who escaped from bondage participated in an influential, nearly lost part of American history.