Spring/16
New research explains sustained eruptions on an icy moon of Saturn.
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07.14.2015
University of Chicago paleontologist David Raup, SB’53, died of pneumonia July 9 in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He was 82.
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07.01.2015
UChicago announces its inaugural undergraduate engineering major.
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06.29.2015
Hall of fame astronaut John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, recalls how the University of Chicago trained him for NASA.
Jan–Feb/15
Two decades of planning by the Fermi Institute’s Tom Economou culminate in a comet landing.
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08.07.2014
Astronomer Wendy Freedman, chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization's board of directors, joins the faculty as a University Professor.
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University of Chicago News Office, 02.13.2012
Kavli Institute directs national collaboration on deepest questions of dark energy, dark matter, and cosmic inflation.