April 29, 2021
This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to build a quantum bit that can search for dark matter, use muscle response for digital authentication, design 'nanotraps' to catch and clear coronavirus from tissue, and harness molecules into a single quantum state.
Voices
- Pandemic helps stir interest in teaching financial literacy
- Assistant Professor Chenhao Tan weighs in on the science of making tweets go viral
- Asst. Prof. Sarah Sebo discusses human-robot interaction and "inner speech"
- Searching for the Universe’s most energetic particles, astronomers turn on the radio
Research
- Most of Earth likely formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds
- A tiny particle’s wobble could upend the known laws of physics
- UChicago, Fermilab physicists build a quantum bit that can search for dark matter
- Your unique muscle response could become a new approach to digital authentication
- Planetary scientist Edwin Kite led study finding icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes
- UChicago beamline scientists at the GeoSoilEnviroCARS facility housed at Argonne National Laboratory helped geologists unlock the secrets of Earth’s early atmosphere
- UChicago scientists design ‘nanotraps’ to catch and clear coronavirus from tissue
- In long-awaited breakthrough, physicists harness molecules into single quantum state
Education and Community
- Prof. Rebecca Willett, Departments of Computer Science and Statistics, named SIAM Fellow
- Profs. Mark Rivers and Stephen Sutton of GeoSci awarded 2021 APSUO Arthur H. Compton Award
- Astrophysicists get buzz for April 1 Python algorithm to detect emotional trends in Taylor Swift
- Five awarded 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- With CAREER Award, Asst. Prof. Pedro Lopes explores human-computer integration
- Oceans and atmospheres: geophysical sciences professor with a passion for climate change
- CDAC Discovery Challenge awardees train data science on medicine, clean water, and education
- PSD climate grants foster belonging while socially distanced
- Celebrate Earth Week at the University of Chicago
- DeepTechU venture conference to showcase 48 investor-ready companies, April 20–22
- 2021 Priestley Medalist A. Paul Alivisatos helped introduce the world to the nanocrystal
- Polsky Center launches quantum science and technology accelerator
- 2021 Academy of Arts & Sciences elects three PSD faculty members
- Angela Olinto and Laura Gagliardi elected to National Academy of Sciences
- John C. Martin, 69, PhD’77 in Chemistry, led Gilead Sciences to breakthroughs in HIV and Hepatitis C treatment