Celebrating a year of discovery

PSD Trailblazers Wall

PSD Highlights 2022

Eugene Parker Memorial Live Stream

PSD Highlights 2021

Welcome to the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago

PSD Immersion Series - Learning Physics of Living Systems

Physical Sciences Division Spring 2022 Master's Diploma Ceremony

Physical Sciences Division Spring 2022 PhD Diploma Ceremony

Origins of the RNA-Protein World – Lost in Translation?, John Sutherland, Cambridge

Meet the Nominees - 2nd Annual PSD Staff Awards

Environments for the Origins of Life: Photons, Electrons, and Chemistry in Muddy Lakes, D. Sasselov

University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division Spring 2021 Convocation

"Novi Scientiam" Convocation Performance, Physical Sciences Division, University of Chicago

University of Chicago Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Constraining prebiotic chemistry, Tim Lyons, University of California, Riverside

Origins of Life Systems Chemistry, John Sutherland, Cambridge

Meteorite Delivery of Prebiotic Organics: An Inventory for the Origin of Life, Daniel Glavin, NASA

Astronomical insights on delivery of organic building blocks, Jenny Bergner, University of Chicago

Inferring the 'Laws of Life' at a Planetary Scale, Sara Walker, Arizona State University

Hierarchical self-assembly of model primitive cells, Anna Wang, University of New South Wales

The emergence of RNA from prebiotic mixtures of nucleotides, Jack Szostak, Nobel laureate, Harvard