March 30, 2020
This month PSD researchers have been featured for the efforts of chemists to decode RNA of the new coronavirus, using AI to decode cuneiform tablets, and predicting a new state of matter.
Voices
Research
- Wired Magazine covers Prof. Wendy Freedman’s work on the Hubble Constant
- New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago reveals drug target. UChicago part of team that solved the structure
- Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets
- A new study featuring CS postdoc and co-author Jonas Jagermeyr in Nature Sustainability finds that if major steps in global farming are taken, agricultural production would be substantially increased without compromising the planet
- UChicago scientists predict new state of matter
- Chicago CS researchers want to protect your selfies from facial recognition
- Oriental Institute, Computer Science scholars collaborate on program to read cuneiform tablets
- UChicago scientists push the boundaries between materials and machines
- Physicist David Miller and computer scientist Yuxin Chen hope to build a "self-driving" system for selecting and analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
- UChicago chemists race to decode RNA of new coronavirus
- Research by PhD Student Pranav Gokhale and EPiQC Wins IBM Q Best Paper
- Physic Professor Margaret Gardel awarded Sackler Prize in Biophysics
- Chemistry Professor Mark Levin awarded Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigators Award
- UChicago joins new academic/industry consortium to accelerate AI innovation
Education & Community
- Geeky T-shirts, open door policy make UChicago computer scientist beloved campus figure; Borja Sotomayor fights for inclusion, mentors students and builds squirrel homes
- Excerpt adapted from Smithsonian curator’s book about UChicago female chemist Tosh Mayeda, from an internment camp to studying the chemistry of the solar system
- UChicago Medicine’s Emily Landon answers common questions about COVID-19
- Richard Miller, pioneer of computational astrophysics, 1926–2020
- UChicago Medicine How You Can Help During the COVID-19 Crisis