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The Giant Magellan Telescope and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. announced the launch of manufacturing and assembly for the largest telescope mount ever constructed in the United States. Leaders in the field gathered to celebrate the start of the telescope's construction, including PSD Dean Ka Yee Lee.

Researchers from several universities, including the University of Chicago, conducted a study of the land and permafrost along Alaska’s Koyukuk River. The findings revealed that permafrost is not regenerating fast enough to counteract the erosion of the land.

UChicago's Valerie Hayot-Sasson talks to HPCwire about the development of an open science data-flow platform to aid in better and timely public health decisions. This work includes improved data ingestion, curation, and management capabilities, and a shared development environment for rapid response and collaboration. 

UChicago PhD student Edgar Marrufo Villalpando journeyed from Mexico to the United States and transitioned from computational physics to astronomical instrumentation to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a physicist. In this article, Villalpando reflects on his personal and academic journey toward becoming a scientist.

In a new study, researchers may have found a way to turn giant exoplanets into sensitive detectors for dark matter particles. UChicago particle astrophysicist Dan Hooper provides insight into the amount of dark matter that passes through Jupiter every second. 
 

In a new study, researchers found that rain may have been an essential ingredient for the origin of life. This groundbreaking research was conducted by scientists from UChicago's Chemistry Department and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, including Nobel Prize laureate Jack Szostak.
 

Recent findings suggest that dark energy, long believed to be a constant force accelerating the expansion of the universe, may weaken over time. Joshua Frieman comments on this discovery and how it challenges our current understanding of the universe's expansion.
 

Originally from Blue Rapids, Kansas, Assistant Dean of Students Megan Swartz joined the PSD in June 2024 following two years in the Social Sciences Division. Before joining UChicago, she worked at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. We interviewed Megan about her interests and experiences.

"People can come to me for MS admissions and funding questions. You can also come to me if you want to talk about sports, particularly football and baseball!"

Congratulations to Anirudh (Ani) Chiti, who has been named a Brinson Prize Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.

A new UChicago-led analysis measures universe expansion rate and finds the 'Hubble tension' may not exist. 

For decades, UChicago’s historic Accelerator Building has served as a hub for innovative research, accommodating particle accelerators known as atom smashers, as well as facilities for medical services. The center will be demolished this year to make way for a new building for today’s researchers in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Chicago Quantum Exchange.
 

A new paper from the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Houston Chemical Engineering Department, and Chicago Center for the Origins of Life suggests rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to all forms of life.

Meet the futuristic new materials developed by UChicago scientists that could soon be all around us. In the Chemistry Department, professor Bozhi Tian and his colleagues devised a soil-like material designed to promote microbial growth. 
 

A new study led by researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh introduced new method for altering vinyl systems, important in drug and materials science. 
 

Chemistry Department and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Prof. Giulia Galli has been named the 2024-2025 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Awardee. This yearly prize honors exceptional work in theoretical chemistry.