2020
Meet astronomy & astrophysics student Amy Tang
March 4, 2020
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.
Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve
March 4, 2020
Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets
What makes a UChicago computer scientist a beloved campus figure
March 3, 2020
Geeky T-shirts, open door policy make UChicago computer scientist beloved campus figure
New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target
March 2, 2020
New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target. UChicago part of team that solved the structure.
Wired Magazine covers Astro Prof. Wendy Freedman’s work on the Hubble Constant
March 2, 2020
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
Building a 3D map of the universe to uncover the mysteries of dark energy
February 28, 2020
SciTechDaily profiles Dark Energy Survey and how new instrumentation may give the best insight yet into how dark energy has behaved over time
CS Education Expert Diana Franklin Promoted to Associate Professor
February 27, 2020
Computer Science Education Expert Diana Franklin Promoted to Associate Professor
Astronomy Professors John Carlstrom, Wendy Freedman, and Michael Turner named AAS Legacy Fellows
February 26, 2020
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.
UChicago scientists predict new state of matter
February 25, 2020
A discovery by Chemistry Prof. David Mazziotti, Dr. Shiva Safaei, and graduate student LeeAnn Sager addresses the problem of generating and moving energy efficiently
PSD in the News - February 2020
February 25, 2020
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 Spotlight: Lori Smedley
February 25, 2020
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 Fermilab scientist Daniel Bowring use quantum computing to explore dark matter
February 20, 2020
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
University of Chicago Exhibit and Speaker Series Celebrates Women in STEM
February 20, 2020
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
February 19, 2020
Scientists at Argonne and UChicago entangled photons across a 52-mile quantum loop network, helping to lay the foundations for a national quantum internet
Scientific American covers the debate around Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman’s research on the rates of the universe
February 19, 2020
Research on the rate of the universe may point to a New Physics