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University of Chicago chemist and professor Laura Gagliardi has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Linus Pauling Medal Award for outstanding achievements in Chemistry. Gagliardi is honored for the development of groundbreaking electronic structure theories and combined classical/quantum methodologies that have accelerated the design of new materials, including reticular frameworks.
 

CS professor Ben Zhao discusses the timing of Meta's Threads launch.

Assistant professor of statistics Yi Sun discusses his startup Axiom developing technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet.

Sixteen UChicago faculty members, including PSD professors Michael Franklin and Dan Nicolae, have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

Computational linguist Allyson Ettinger explains language processing for ChatGPT in Wired

Computer scientist Marshini Chetty weighs in on bots taking jobs from gig workers.

Sandra Tilmon is a graduate of the MS in Applied Data Science part-time program in the Physical Sciences Division.

Ben Kusswurm is a student in the MS in Applied Data Science's online program.

Computer scientist Bill Fefferman talks quantum gravity and black holes in Quanta Magazine.

The team, which includes a third-year Ph.D. student and two scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, built a real-time monitoring system that updates a patient’s risk for developing Long COVID as new clinical events occur.

Image: Computer scientist and CS alumnus Fangfang Xia

EJ Kang is a MS in Applied Data Science student in the Physical Sciences Division.

Marvel’s Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania shines a sci-fi spotlight on quantum concepts and provides a gateway to explore the realities and possibilities.

Image by Argonne National Laboratory/Gillian King-Cargile

Chemist Bryan Dickinson discusses lab-grown meat following the USDA’s approval for consumer purchase.

Article discusses an open source tool Glaze 1.0 developed by UChicago computer scientists that protects artwork by shifting pixels around on images, making them more difficult for AIs to ingest.

Assistant professor of computer science Chenhao Tan comments on AI detection technologies, saying that “in general I don’t think they’re great, and I’m not optimistic that they will be.”