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Geophysical sciences professor Noboru Nakamura says Chicago has made smart changes by implementing heat emergency plans, routine wellness checks, and cooling centers, but that "a systemic problem of a resource inequity is something that you can’t really get rid of overnight...that aspect still is a big, big, big, big unsolved problem."

New exascale machine is one step closer to enabling transformative science.

Image courtesy Argonne National Laboratory

Created by The University of Chicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong, The Course podcast is a compilation of personal conversations with UChicago professors. Over a dozen PSD professors answer how they found their passion in the academic field, what they were like as kids, and what it takes to become a professor at The University of Chicago.
 

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