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2025

PSD Spotlight: Hannah Fry

May 12, 2025

Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry, Associate Director of Major Gifts, grew up in rural northwestern Indiana on a farm not far from Purdue University. “Controversially, I went to Indiana University, where I studied Nonprofit Management.” Before joining the UChicago team, she worked in major gifts fundraising at Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University. We interviewed Hannah about her interests and experiences.


UChicago Data Mirror website launched to protect access to public datasets

May 10, 2025

UChicago Data Mirror logo with the logos of UChicago Data Science Institute and UChicago Library below.

UChicago Library and DSI collaborate to preserve data and access to information in a response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites. 
 


Novel machine learning approaches to facilitate skin cancer detection

May 10, 2025

Photo of squamous cell carcinoma, the second most common form of skin cancer.

Team led by UChicago CS PhD student Steven Song evaluated the effectiveness of novel small-scale AI models in identifying non-melanoma skin cancers.


Reflections from UPCEA 2025: exploring data science and ethics in higher education

May 10, 2025

A visualization of two of the three stages of ethical inquiry: ethical collection, ethical consumption, and ethical interpretation. Each stage is sequential and a prerequisite for the next round of filtering.

Three MS in Applied Data Science team members led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference regarding the ethical dimensions of data science in higher education.


Weixin Tang wins 2025 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

May 10, 2025

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Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang recognized for excellence in chemical biology research and undergraduate education at the University of Chicago.


Nobel laureate Moungi Bawendi to present Harkins Lecture at UChicago

May 10, 2025

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Nobel laureate and Chemistry alum Moungi Bawendi returns to celebrate quantum dots.


From UChicago labs to cancer’s frontier: alumna Ziwan Xu recognized as a rising star

May 10, 2025

Photo of Ziwan Xu in front of a cherry blossom tree.

Ziwan Xu, an alumna of the Department of Chemistry, is spotlighted in Nature for her innovative research in radiosensitizers and sustained-release drug delivery.


Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution

May 10, 2025

Photo of the lecture, Prof. Greg Engel (left) presented Jumper (right) with the Bloch Medal.

Watch UChicago alum and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper deliver the Bloch Lecture, discussing how he led a team to build AlphaFold—an AI-based model with enormous impact on protein structure prediction.


New ceramic material for high-power particle accelerators enhances reliability

May 10, 2025

Photo of the prototype RF window which is composed of conductive ceramic attached to a copper sleeve.

In a multi-year project led by engineers and scientists at Fermilab’s Illinois Accelerator Research Center, Fermilab worked with Euclid Techlabs to test a new, slightly conductive ceramic for use in a key accelerator component called a radio frequency window.
 


The next frontier in nuclear physics

May 10, 2025

Photo of researchers monitoring conditions within the ATLAS control room. From left to right:  Sergio Lopez-Caceres, Brahim Mustapha and Daniel Santiago.

Recent advancements at the ATLAS user facility are enhancing operations and efficiency to help unlock new insights into the universe’s fundamental forces.
 


Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers

May 10, 2025

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Bill Fefferman develops a new use for a quantum algorithm once thought to be useless to protect against quantum computers. 


Dimension 126 contains strangely twisted shapes, mathematicians prove

May 10, 2025

Image of wooden sticks aligned to form a shape simulating a multidimensional structure.

Two previous students of Professor Peter May, Weinan Lin, PhD'21, and Zhouli Xu, PhD'17, worked on a new proof representing the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.


Nation’s largest liquid metal test facility gets key upgrade

May 10, 2025

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Argonne National Laboratory swapped out a key component in its liquid metal test loop for a new class of reactors. 
 


2025 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division

May 7, 2025

Andrew Campbell

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: Andrew J. Campbell!


Reimagining synthetic strategy with skeletal editing ticks box on chemists’ wish list

May 5, 2025

Hands holding test tube containing orange liquid.

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.