February 24, 2022
Voices
- Sloan Fellow Pedro Lopes interviewed by FOX32 from HCI Lab
- Prof. Ben Zhao, Dept. of Computer Science, comments, Do you know who that worker you just hired really is?
- Astronomy and astrophysics student Emily Gilbert comments, If we ever travel to another star, we’re going here
- Prof. Fred Chong, Department of Computer Science, comments, The next big quantum leap may require better software
Research
- Robot-aided assembly could help scientists speed pace of discovery for new technologies
- Weed won’t prevent COVID-19, but scientists are finding surprising cannabis connections
- UChicago researchers set record by preserving quantum states for more than five seconds
- UChicago scientists create strange quantum ‘domain walls’ in laboratory
- A unique material transmits heat in one direction and blocks it in another
- Beagle supercomputer gets a GPU-based upgrade thanks to $2M NIH grant
- Geophysical scientists invited onto NASA’s Curiosity rover mission as participating scientists, will choose targets for three year period
- Local nuclear reactor helps UChicago scientists catch and study neutrinos
- CS Prof. Diana Franklin featured speaker for quantum workforce national plan
Education and Community
- ‘Science as Art’ contest calls for your images from UChicago research
- Smithsonian to feature KICP fellow Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil among 120 statues celebrating women in STEM
- Three PSD faculty selected for Sloan Research Fellowships
- PSD research in self-assembling granular matter to be highlighted at APS 2022
- Remembering Moddie Taylor, a Black scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project
- How an alum’s invention helped propel the U.S. space race