May 26, 2021
This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to theorize non-reciprocal interactions, push the frontiers of human computer interaction, and cut nitrogen atoms from molecules, opening up avenues for constructing molecules.
Voices
Research
- Icy clouds may have permitted flowing water on Mars
- Physicists reveal how motion can be generated by frustration
- Building molecules like Tinkertoys? A breakthrough study may pave the way
- A material with memory
- Ten papers at CHI 2021 flourish frontiers of Human Computer Interaction research at UChicago CS
- Profs. Rich Kron and Chihway Chang comment on new DES analysis of largest ever map of dark matter
Education and Community
- In unique year, UChicago students find togetherness—apart
- Theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski, PhD’91, awarded 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize
- Victor Barcilon, applied mathematician and geophysical scientist, 1939-2020
- Chemist John Anderson named 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
- Kirk Lancaster, SB’18 Chemistry, named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
- How a UChicago initiative fostered ‘synergy’ between art and science
- Symposium highlights UChicago collaborations with leading French research center
- How one pioneer earned the nickname 'Mr. Tornado'
- Two computer science alumni named to 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list
- Prof. Alexander Beilinson accepts the 2021 Shaw Prize Award for Mathematics
- UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
- PSD recognizes ten students with a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
- 2021 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division
- Chemistry professor Weixin Tang named 2021 Searle Scholar
- Sheila Hohmann, scientific business administrator, 1946-2021
- Graduate students recognized for exceptional teaching of undergraduates
- Four PSD members named to DOE Early Career Research Program