2023
‘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
2023 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division
May 26, 2023

The recipients of the 2023 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division are Michael J. Franklin, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science, Senior Advisor to the Provost on Computation and Data Science and Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute, and Dan Nicolae, Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and the Section of Genetic Medicine, and Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute.
Astronomers have spotted a once-in-a-decade supernova—and you can, too
May 25, 2023

The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike
The Day Tomorrow Began: The first nuclear reaction
May 25, 2023

In 1942, Enrico Fermi and a group of scientists gathered beneath the football stands at the University of Chicago to feverishly work on a secret experiment—to achieve the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction—that would that would change the world forever.
University of Chicago joins global partnerships to advance quantum computing
May 22, 2023

$100 million from IBM to help develop quantum-centric supercomputer; $50 million from Google to support quantum research and workforce development.
Answering big questions at the South Pole
May 17, 2023

MyChoice extern and computer science graduate student, Kevin Bryson, writes about Prof. Bradford Benson's work to develop detectors and massive telescopes that enable the study of the origins of the universe.
Study finds fascinating link between photosynthesis, supercooling of atoms
May 16, 2023

University of Chicago professor David A. Mazziotti, and grad students LeeAnn M. Sager-Smith and Anna O. Schouten, explained how they discovered the link and what it could mean for the future of how we power our homes and cities.
Damage delays restart of Italy’s giant gravitational wave detector
May 16, 2023

Physicists will resume their hunt for astrophysical monsters: black holes and neutron stars going bump in the dark and emitting ripples in space called gravitational waves. But one of the three detectors that have spotted such waves—Virgo, near Pisa, Italy—has run into technical problems that will delay its restart, 3 years after all the facilities shut down for maintenance and upgrades.
Smart glove enhances your sense of touch in virtual reality
May 13, 2023

Stimulating nerves on the back of your hand makes it feel like you are grasping things in VR without needing to have your palms covered in material.