All HIggs boson

December 1, 2015

Posthumous degree honors student who loved physics

Graduation ceremony a bittersweet moment for family, colleagues

Fermilab’s CDF detector

March 11, 2014

Scientists find predicted way to produce puzzling particle

UIC physicists among collaborators on top quark discovery

Nikos Varelas

November 25, 2013

UIC physicist honored by international science organization

Physics Professor Nikos Varelas Named AAAS Fellow

Nikos Varelas

October 22, 2013

University Scholar Nikos Varelas: thrill of the unknown

Physicist among international team seeking Higgs boson

Higgs Boson illustration

October 8, 2013

Physicists celebrate Nobel Prize to Higgs boson scientists

UIC researchers played role in finding elusive particle.

Cecilia Gerber

July 11, 2012

UIC’s helping hands put Higgs particle within scientists’ grasp

You can’t see it, but information gleaned from trillions of smashed atoms suggests it’s really there: the elusive subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, deemed essential to the physical workings of our universe. UIC physicists are part of this international scientific search.