PSD in the News - June 2021

June 28, 2021

This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to transform plastics, electronics, and transportation, experiment with materials that can 'remember,' and contribute to the most precise look yet at the universe's evolution.

Voices

• New internet woven from ‘spooky’ quantum links could supercharge science and commerce 

• Big Brains Podcast: Solving the biggest mysteries of our universe, with Dan Hooper

• Chinese rover on Mars ushers in new space race 

• Prof. Diana Franklin discusses the “big gaps” in computer science education 

Research

• For a sustainable future, scientists rethink plastics and devices 

• For the first time, researchers visualize metabolic process at the single-cell level

• ‘There may not be a conflict after all’ in expanding universe debate

• The Hubble constant, explained

• Could dark matter be behind mysterious, supermassive black holes in the early universe?

Education and Community

• Physicist awarded grant as part of Simons Collaboration on Categorical Symmetries 

• The first nuclear reactor, explained

• CCAM student awarded Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

• Prof. Laura Gagliardi awarded Royal Society of Chemistry Prize

• Dean Olinto tells Class of 2021 they are ‘equipped with the curiosity, creativity, courage, and wisdom to lead the next revolution in the physical and mathematical sciences to improve the world’

• In a special send-off to graduates, PSD students perform “Novi Scientiam”

• PSD Spotlight: Melissa Salvo-Leadingham

• From simple interactions to complex computations: UChicago scientist seeks a unifying theory of the brain 

• Mathematician J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was a Manhattan Project standout despite racism

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