News

2022

Robert J. Zimmer steps down from position as University of Chicago chancellor

July 8, 2022

Robert Zimmer

The University of Chicago announced that Robert J. Zimmer will step down from his role as chancellor to focus on his health. A visionary leader in mathematics and higher education, he is the Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the College and former Chairman of Mathematics.


CERN’s Large Hadron Collider scientists reveal new particle discovery as accelerator research resumes

July 6, 2022

Scientists in CERN's facilities

Upgrades to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider could help scientists discover more new particles and gain better understanding of dark matter.


The Higgs boson turns ten

July 5, 2022

Lian-Tao Wang, Gavin P. Salam, and Giulia Zanderighi review the role of the Higgs field in the Standard Model of particle physics and explain its impact on the world around.


Chicago’s Duality Quantum Accelerator selects its second cohort

July 1, 2022

Illustration of quantum interactions

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UChicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange will begin its second cohort supporting five quantum startups: Icosa Computing, memQ, Quantescence, SCALINQ, and Wave Photonics.


Lee C. Teng, eminent physicist, 1926-2022

July 1, 2022

Lee Chang-Li Teng, a theoretical physicist who contributed to and designed many particle-accelerator-based projects around the globe, and University of Chicago alumnus, died June 24.


Direct photo-oxidation of methane to methanol over a mono-iron hydroxyl site

July 1, 2022

Wenbin Lin

Prof. Wenbin Lin and researcher Zhe Li co-authored new research identifying a path to drive the direct photosynthesis of methanol.


PSD in the News - June 22

June 30, 2022

PSD against a white and turquoise background

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to understand why Mars dried out, expand and activate the Chicagoland quantum network, and analyze samples from asteroid Ryugu collected by Hayabusa2.


Booth podcast with Prof. Ben Zhao, What are the ethics of facial recognition technology?

June 27, 2022

Ben Zhao

In an interdisciplinary discussion hosted by Chicago Booth Review, UChicago scholars Wilma A. Bainbridge and Alexander Todorov join Prof. Ben Zhao of computer science to discuss biases relating to faces and the implications of facial recognition technology.


Prof. Yanjing Li receives Under-40 Innovators Award from DAC

June 23, 2022

Yanjing Li

Asst. Prof. Yanjing Li of the Dept. of Computer Science will be one of four researchers to receive the 2022 Under-40 Innovators Award from the annual Design Automation Conference in July in San Francisco, an industry event focused on the automation of electronic chips to systems.


Computer Science professors Bill Fefferman and Chenhao Tan receive Google Research Scholar Awards

June 23, 2022

Bill Fefferman and Chenhao Tan

Computer Science faculty Bill Fefferman and Chenhao Tan received 
Google Research Scholar Awards for projects in quantum computing and AI text models.


Computer Science Chair Michael Franklin part of SIGMOD Award-winning team

June 23, 2022

Mike Franklin

Liew Family Chair of Computer Science Michael Franklin was one of a large group of researchers and open source developers who received the 2022 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award for their work on the popular Apache Spark system.


DSI Summer Lab returns in-person with 49 students from across the U.S.

June 22, 2022

the logo for the UChicago Data Science Institute Summer Lab in maroon and yellow

After two years of remote participation, the 2022 DSI Summer Lab will bring 49 high school, undergraduate, and master’s students to Chicago for a ten-week immersion into data science research.


Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth?

June 22, 2022

Image of solar winds. Solar wind is continually released from the sun's outermost atmosphere.

Solar wind is composed of charged particles and the sun’s magnetic field and is continually released from our star. Explore the phenomenon discovered by Professor Emeritus Eugene Parker, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.


Listen to the new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation podcast, Carry the Two

June 21, 2022

Carry The Two podcast logo, pink and black segments mirroring each other

The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation has released the first episode of a new podcast series, Carry the Two. Hosted by Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin, episode one tackles using mathematical tools to examine STEM policy documents, specifically addressing EDI.


John Schiffer, nuclear physicist, 1930-2022 

June 21, 2022

John Schiffer sits at his desk in 1987 with an open notebook.

John Schiffer, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Chicago and former director of the Physics Division at Argonne, died on June 6. Over a career spanning nearly 70 years, Schiffer contributed to research on nuclear structure, crystalline beams, and neutrinoless double beta decay, and he played a key role in the development of a spectrometer concept that is now part of several radioactive ion beam facilities.