2019
Walter Massey, former faculty member and trustee emeritus, receives Vannevar Bush Award
April 18, 2019
The National Science Board announced that Massey, senior adviser to the president of the University of Chicago, will receive its prestigious Vannevar Bush Award.
National Sciences Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
April 18, 2019
Twelve graduate students in the PSD earned the prestigious National Sciences Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Prof. Per Mykland earns Guggenheim fellowship to understand data architecture
April 16, 2019
The Robert M. Hutchins Professor of Statistics and Finance, Per Mykland, is one of five UChicago scholars to be named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows.
UChicago’s innovative research is shaping the future of computer science
April 16, 2019
Not only are UChicago researchers advancing the foundations of data science and artificial intelligence, they are also expanding their applications to other fields.
Meet Pranav Gokhale
April 16, 2019
Pranav Gokhale was born and raised in suburban Maryland. Prior to coming to the University of Chicago, he worked as a product engineer at Quora. He is now in his second year of UChicago’s Computer Science PhD program. We interviewed him via email about his experiences at UChicago.
Podcast features Prof. Ben Zhao’s research on AI
April 15, 2019
Computer scientist, Ben Zhao, explains how artificial intelligence can break crucial systems and be broken itself on Big Brains, a UChicago podcast. Listen and subscribe.
Rivers raged on Mars late into its history
April 15, 2019
A new study by University of Chicago scientists catalogued rivers to conclude that significant river runoff persisted on Mars later into its history than previously thought.
UChicago researchers provide a promising boost for quantum computers
April 12, 2019
A new finding by UChicago research group, EPiQC, promises to improve the speed and reliability of current and next generation quantum computers by as much as ten times.
Two UChicago graduate students win prestigious Department of Energy fellowships
April 12, 2019
Graduate students Evan Angelico and Nina Coyle have received prestigious Department of Energy fellowships to conduct their research at Fermilab.
Meet Jade Checlair
April 11, 2019
Jade Checlair was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium. Prior to attending the University of Chicago, she studied physics at the University of Toronto and spent a summer in Tokyo researching exoplanets. She’s now in her third year at UChicago, pursuing a PhD in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences.
UChicago-run South Pole Telescope Contributes to First Black Hole Image
April 10, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes, including the UChicago-run South Pole Telescope, captured the first ever image of a black hole. The black hole is at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.
Cold atoms act as messengers at a distance
April 4, 2019
In a paper published by Nature on April 3, researchers at the University of Chicago report that atoms can exchange information using intermediary particles. This is the first time the phenomenon has been observed in a cold atom system, where atoms are maintained at temperatures close to absolute zero to reveal their quantum mechanical properties.
Meet Alan Chang
April 2, 2019
Alan Chang was born in Minneapolis, MN, and grew up in San Jose, CA. He received a BA in mathematics from Princeton and is now in his fifth year of the University of Chicago’s Mathematics PhD program. We interviewed him via email about his experiences at UChicago.
Meet June Wu
March 28, 2019
June Wu is from Shanghai, China. Before coming to the University of Chicago, she received her BA in mathematics and MS in scientific computing from the Courant Institute at New York University. She is in her first year of pursuing a PhD with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM). We interviewed her via email about her experiences at UChicago.
Meet Petr Panov
March 26, 2019
Petr Panov is from Moscow, Russia. He earned his BSc and MSc in biophysics from Moscow Institute of Technology. He is now a fourth-year student pursuing a PhD in statistics. We interviewed him via email about his experiences at the University of Chicago.