PSD in the News - June 22

June 30, 2022

Voices

• Greg Voth comments, Researchers simulate coronavirus invasion and infection, find cooperative host cells

• Physics student Katrina Miller writes about the unwritten laws of physics for Black women

• Prof. Juan Collar comments, Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else 

Research

• Sponge-like solar cells could be basis for better pacemakers 

• Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid

  • Returned asteroid sample unlocks time capsule older than the Sun

  • Ryugu asteroid samples contain clues to origin of life, Japan scientists say

• Twelve for dinner: the Milky Way’s feeding habits shine a light on dark matter

• Chicago expands and activates quantum network, taking steps toward a secure quantum internet

  • Chicago Quantum Exchange takes first steps toward a future that could revolutionize computing, medicine and cybersecurity

  • Chicago now has a 124-mile quantum network. This is what it’s for

• Most of the world breathes unsafe air, taking more than 2 years off global life expectancy

  • Air pollution takes 2 years off average global life expectancy, more than smoking or alcohol

• Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth?

• Astronomers discover closest rocky ‘super Earth’ planets yet, per NASA

• Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle

Education and Community

• Students earn 2022 Nathan Sugarman Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate and Graduate Research

• Helmut Krebs, master machinist, 1935–2022

• AIP oral history interview with Prof. Young-Kee Kim

• Watch “Our Evolving Universe”: Prof. Wendy Freedman’s Convocation address

• Chancellor Robert Zimmer awarded 2022 Centennial Medal from Harvard University

• PSD recognizes nine students with a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship

• In retiring, physicist Roland Winston looks forward to his busy, bright future

• Undergrads begin summer quantum research with support from Moore Foundation, Chicago region universities, national labs

• Undergraduate fellowship works to diversify quantum science

• The top 100 universities in the world ranked by real impact

• John Schiffer, nuclear physicist, died on June 6, 2022

• Listen to the new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation podcast, Carry the Two

  • ‘9 Questions’ and ‘Carry the Two’ join University of Chicago Podcast Network

• DSI Summer Lab returns in-person with 49 students from across the U.S.

• Computer Science Chair Michael Franklin part of SIGMOD Award-winning team

• Computer Science professors Bill Fefferman and Chenhao Tan receive Google Research Scholar Awards

• Prof. Yanjing Li receives Under-40 Innovators Award from DAC

• Booth podcast with Prof. Ben Zhao, What are the ethics of facial recognition technology?

• Joelle Mbatchou, Statistics PhD’19, named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35

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