PSD in the News - June 2020

June 26, 2020

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to find evidence of the elusive Axion Particle, develop UV light disinfection arrays for N95 masks, and identifying that a mysterious interstellar visitor was a dark hydrogen iceberg.

Voices

• Direct proof of dark matter may lurk at low-energy frontiers 

• Scientists across the US take action in support of Black Lives Matter, organized in part by Fermilab, U. of C. physicist 

  • Asst. Prof. Brian Nord and Prof. Daniel Holz discuss #ShutDownSTEM with New York Times 

• Astronomer Wendy Freedman encourages girls to reach for the stars on StartTV 

• A black hole's lunch provides a treat for astronomers — Assoc. Prof. Daniel Holz explains the significance of a newly discovered (and indeterminate) astronomical object

Research

• Study by UChicago, Yale scientists lays out origin story for object named ‘Oumuamua' 

  • Yahoo News 

  • New York Times

• Prof. Wald’s 1993 research referenced in article “Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Link Between Energy and Entropy”

• Peter Eng interviewed about decontaminating N95 masks on Fox 32 Chicago 

• XENON1T dark matter detector picks up unexplained new signal 

  • New York Times

  • Futurism 

  • Gizmodo

  • Wired

• Prof. Awschalom says new CQE analysis shows promise of quantum technologies based on silicon carbide, with quotes from postdoc Chris Anderson (physics) and PME grad student Kevin Miao 

• UChicago researchers led by Prof. Peter Eng develop a faster, better way to disinfect N95 masks for reuse 

• NASA’s TESS, Spitzer missions discover a world orbiting a unique young star near us 

• A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii

Education and Community

• PSD members honored with 2020 Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards 

• Chemistry student, Adam Antoszewski, honored for exceptional teaching of undergraduates with 2020 Wayne C. Booth Prize 

• Chemist Sarah King honored with Beckman Foundation’s Young Investigator Award 

• University of Chicago STAGE lab docuseries takes viewers into the lives and labs of scientists and first episode features Schuster Lab 

• Jared Siegel has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award medal for his poster on supernova remnant W49B at the recently concluded 236th AAS meeting 

• Equity, diversity, and inclusion learning materials 

• Jesus Alvarez, Clare Keenan, and Aaron Slipper awarded teaching prizes

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