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2023

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs measure lifting Illinois’ moratorium on new nuclear power plants

December 14, 2023

Robert Rosner

Of a moratorium on building nuclear power plants in Illinois coming to an end, Prof. Robert Rosner says in a Chicago Tribune article, "There’s no one waiting here to start building a nuclear power plant as soon as the law changes."


Committee lays out research priorities for future of U.S. particle physics

December 11, 2023

A technician works on PIP-II at Fermilab—part of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

P5 report includes UChicago, Fermilab experiments to study neutrinos, cosmic microwave background.


Chicago Booth announces a new joint degree with applied data science

December 8, 2023

data nodes illustrated over a city skyline

Students can better prepare themselves for a career in a data and A.I.-driven world with the school’s new joint MBA and MS-ADS degree program.


UChicago, NCAR research suggests world will see ‘record-breaking’ winds

December 8, 2023

Image of the globe with the Western Hemisphere Eurasian continent facing front, with colored bands to indicate jet streams moving across the surface of the Earth

Jet streams circulate around the world. A new study by GS Prof. Tiffany Shaw and National Center for Atmospheric Research scientist Osamu Miyawaki finds fast jet stream winds (those in dark red in the figure) will get even faster over time as climate change accelerates.


Nutrient found in meat and dairy improves immune response to cancer

December 7, 2023

An electron microscope image showing a cancer cell (white) being attacked by two T cells (colored red for reference).

Research by UChicago scientists, including Chemistry Prof. Chuan He, suggests that the nutrient called TVA could have potential as a nutritional supplement to complement clinical treatments for cancer.


Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

December 6, 2023

Cloud Computing Concept with Digital Cloud and IT Icons

Together, a startup co-founded by CS Assoc. Prof. Ce Zhang creating open-source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, announced that it closed a $102.5 million Series A funding round.


UChicago Explainer Series: Cosmic rays

December 5, 2023

illustration of cosmic rays

Scientists are fascinated by cosmic rays because they can tell us about space—where they came from and what they encountered along the way—as well as the makeup of the galaxy and the universe. Read the UChicago Explainer Series to learn all about cosmic rays.


Mark Levin wins 2023 Dream Chemistry Award

December 5, 2023

Mark Levin (right)

Mark Levin has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Dream Chemistry Award. Organized by IOCB Prague, a leading institution in the Czech Republic, the award was established to support “young talents in pursuing their scientific dreams.” Levin won for his project, "Skeletal Editing: Enabling Synthesis that Matches Design."


Benson Farb awarded 2024 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

December 1, 2023

Benson Farb

The 2024 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded to Benson Farb and Dan Margalit for their Princeton Mathematical Series book A Primer on Mapping Class Groups.

According to the citation, “The authors are leading researchers in group theory as well as allied areas of topology and geometry. Their expertise shines through with masterful and clear expositions of the combinatorial, algebraic, geometric and analytic viewpoints that mapping class groups enjoy...."


New understanding of oobleck-like fluids contributes to smart material design

December 1, 2023

image of ripples in water

Research led by postdoctoral scholar Hojin Kim, Prof. Stuart Rowan in Chemistry and PME, and Prof. Heinrich Jaeger in Physics and JFI on the science behind non-Newtonian fluids could lead to applications ranging from clump-free paint to wearable protective gear.


A star with six planets that orbit perfectly in sync

November 30, 2023

An artist’s illustration of the six newly discovered planets circling their star in resonance.

Dozens of articles feature Astrophysics postdoc Rafael Luque's study describing the discovery of six planets orbiting a bright star in perfect resonance 100 light-years from Earth. Explore a few of those articles sampled here.


Decoding quantum origins of the universe with next-gen telescopes

November 30, 2023

John Carlstrom

In a Forbes article, Astro Prof. John Carlstrom discusses the significance of the international CMB-S4 telescope project being designed to examine and map ancient cosmic microwave background radiation involving 400 scientists from more than 20 countries.


Big Brains: A radical solution to address climate change, with David Keith (Ep. 124)

November 30, 2023

Portrait of David Keith against a brick wall

Solar geoengineering technology holds possibilities and pitfalls, says David Keith, professor of Geophysical Sciences and founding director of the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at UChicago.


Facebook watches your teens online as they prep for college. How Meta uses the data.

November 29, 2023

Marshini Chetty

In a USA Today article, Assoc. Prof. Marshini Chetty discusses Meta Pixel's tracking efforts on sites required for college applications, saying you could make the argument that these educational sites are “just the same as any other site,” but noting that dealing with kids raises bigger questions about tracking on the web: “Why is there the Meta Pixel? Why are there session recorders?” she said. “What is the place of that on these sites?" Doctoral Candidate Jake Chanenson says, “Some sort of comprehensive federal privacy regulation would be helpful...the last privacy act we had was in the ‘90s"
 


Alumni Spotlight: Get to know Emily Wenger, a 2023 CS graduate who was just named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List

November 29, 2023

Emily Wenger

Emily Wenger, a 2023 PhD graduate from Appleton, Wisconsin, is making a name for herself in a big way. She was just named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2024 for her work on Glaze: a tool that allows artists to shield their work from AI mimicry.