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Feeding 10 billion people on Earth is possible—and sustainable, scientists say. New findings featuring co-author Jonas Jägermeyr, a postdoctoral research in Computer Science, has been published in Nature Sustainability

Amy Tang was born in Shenyang, China, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She was an undergraduate physics student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. We interviewed her about her experiences below. 

Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets

Geeky T-shirts, open door policy make UChicago computer scientist beloved campus figure

New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target. UChicago part of team that solved the structure.

Wired Magazine covers Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman and team's use of the “tip of the red giant branch” (TRGB) stars to arrive at a significantly lower Hubble rate than other observers

SciTechDaily profiles Dark Energy Survey and how new instrumentation may give the best insight yet into how dark energy has behaved over time

 Computer Science Education Expert Diana Franklin Promoted to Associate Professor

American Astronomical Society has announced their new Fellows program, kicking it off with an initial group of 200 Legacy Fellows. Astronomy Professors John Carlstrom, Wendy Freedman, and Michael Turner were among those named Legacy Fellows.

A discovery by Chemistry Prof. David Mazziotti, Dr. Shiva Safaei, and graduate student LeeAnn Sager addresses the problem of generating and moving energy efficiently

This month PSD researchers have been featured for taking the most detailed images of the sun's surface, creating a new technique to analyze moon rocks, and designing several components for the detectors for the ATLAS experiment.

PSD’s March spotlight is Lori Smedley, Associate Dean for Development. Lori has been with UChicago for six years and enjoys volunteer work and supporting sciences at a university that is impacting the world.

Assoc. Prof. David Schuster and grad students Akash Dixit and Ankur Agrawal are searching for dark matter with quantum computers, one blip of light at a time

Redefining the landscape - Women in STEM, an exhibit featuring narratives and large-scale portraits of the women who are shaping STEM in the Physical Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, will open on Thursday, March 5, 2020, at 3:00 PM with a presentation by University of Chicago Provost and Chemistry Professor Ka Yee Lee. The opening reception will be in the atrium of the William Eckhardt Research Center from 4:00-6:00 PM. 

Scientists at Argonne and UChicago entangled photons across a 52-mile quantum loop network, helping to lay the foundations for a national quantum internet