2023
Climate change warning signs started in the 1800s. Here’s what humanity knew and when.
June 12, 2023

Article notes that in 1896, Prof. Thomas Chamberlin wrote about carbon dioxide's role in regulating the earth's temperature.
University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf6-00222, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
NASA mission to the sun answers questions about solar wind that causes aurora borealis
June 9, 2023

Article mentions UChicago research on solar winds.
Image courtesy NASA
U of C, France scientific partnership a win for Chicago as a research, tech hub
June 8, 2023

Juan de Pablo, executive vice president for science, innovation, national laboratories and global initiatives, discusses a partnership establishing the International Research Center for Fundamental Scientific Discovery in Hyde Park.
How solar wind flows from the sun like water from a shower head
June 8, 2023

Article discusses the latest discoveries of NASA’s Parker probe, which is named after the late Eugene N. Parker, a UChicago astrophysicist who first predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958.
Image courtesy NASA
Prof. Angela V. Olinto reappointed as dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences
June 5, 2023

Prof. Angela V. Olinto has been reappointed as dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences, President Paul Alivisatos and Provost Katherine Baicker announced on June 5, 2023. A leading scholar in astroparticle physics and cosmology, Olinto is the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the Enrico Fermi Institute.
Four American scholars among seven winners of the Shaw Prize for 2023
June 1, 2023

Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, wins 2023 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences for his contributions related to mathematical physics and to arithmetic geometry.
PSD in the news: May 2023
May 31, 2023

This month PSD researchers have been recognized for their pioneering discoveries, the quality and innovation of their research programs, and their unique contributions to new fields of inquiry.
Prof. Vladimir Drinfeld wins 2023 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences
May 31, 2023

Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, wins 2023 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences for his contributions related to mathematical physics and to arithmetic geometry.
‘Almost magical’: chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule’s core
May 31, 2023

Article discusses Assoc. Prof. Mark Levin's work pioneering a technique known as "skeletal editing," the ability to precisely edit a molecule by deleting, adding or swapping single atoms in its core.
PSD graduate students earn Physical Sciences Prizes for Teaching
May 30, 2023

Six graduate students have been awarded the Physical Sciences Teaching Prizes for 2022-23: Kapil Chandran (Mathematics), Katelyn Feuling (Chemistry), Harry Fosbinder-Elkins (Physics), Ananth Kamath (Chemistry), Claire Lessler (Physics), and Jonathan Liu (Computer Science).
UChicago announces 2023 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
May 30, 2023

Every year, UChicago recognizes faculty members for their incredible teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students. This year, Michael Gladders is one of the winners of the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards, and Bozhi Tian is being recognized with a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
Evaluating Anti-Facial Recognition Tools
May 30, 2023

In a study presented on May 23-26th at the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, researchers at the University of Chicago developed a framework to systematically evaluate existing anti-facial recognition tools and describe how creators of similar tools can design them to be even more resilient to the evolving landscape of facial recognition.
Meet Riya Sheth, FinMath student
May 30, 2023

Riya Sheth is a Financial Mathematics student and has been at UChicago for six months. She has been deep diving into her coursework, which includes mathematics, computer science, finance, and data analysis. As part of her program, she has also been working with Bodhi Research Group on a project pertaining to tail-risk hedging.
PSD Spotlight: Megan Utley
May 29, 2023

PSD's May spotlight is Meet Megan Utley, PSD's Lab Safety Specialist.
UChicago instructors, grad students honored for exemplary teaching
May 26, 2023

Kale Davies, Mathematics, and Samuel Knight, Chemistry, recognized for exceptional instruction of students in the College