April 27, 2020
This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to discover how to best decontaminate N95 masks, develop probes made of DNA to track molecular secrets, and find a math bridge that extends beyond Fermat's Last Theorem.
Voices
Research
- Margaret Gardel awarded the Sackler Prize in Biophysics
- Asst. Prof. Mark Levin awarded Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigators Award
- COVID-19 research declared initial focus of C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute
- Statistician Rina Foygel Barber wins Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize
- Researchers join forces to study how best to decontaminate N95 masks
- National Defense Magazine coverage of scientists at Argonne testing Quantum Internet
- CS Prof. Rick Stevens interviewed for coverage of how Argonne taps supercomputing network to study how coronavirus spreads
- Quantum computing meets particle physics for LHC data analysis
- ‘Amazing’ math bridge extended beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem, featuring mathematics Prof. Matthew Emerton
- NYT article notes Assoc. Prof. Luca Grandi’s role in the Xenon experiment, an investigation into the nature of dark matter, which has been halted by the pandemic
- Spies like us: Biological chemist Prof. Yamuna Krishnan and other UChicago scientists develop probes made of DNA to track molecular secrets
- NASA online honors Prof. Wendy Freedman’s Hubble achievements
- Wired Magazine covers NASA's plan to turn the ISS into a quantum laser lab. Prof. David Awschalom discusses the future of quantum communication
Education and Community
- ‘Everyone felt the urgency’: Labs around UChicago donate protective equipment to hospital
- Downers Grove scientist, 97, escaped Nazi Germany, helped Manhattan Project, now fights climate change
- Central News story on Prof. Richard Miller, 1926–2020
- Five awarded 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- Three undergraduates awarded Goldwater Scholarships to support STEM education
- UChicago community finds new ways to learn together — Faculty, students, University community connect as Spring Quarter and remote learning begins
- Margaret Burbidge, astrophysicist and champion of women in science, 1919–2020
- Meet MS-PSD student, Syrian Truong
- University of Chicago launches new campus virtual events website
- Meet Divisional Administrator, Susan Hearth
- Six UChicago scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Chemistry Prof. Guilia Galli one of two UChicago scholars elected to National Academy of Sciences