PSD in the News - May 2022

June 2, 2022

Voices

• Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?

• Prof. Carlstrom comments, Chicago scientists help capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

• Prof. Nick Feamster comments, Growing push to bridge digital divide as University of Chicago study highlights deep disparities

Research

• This VR system turns you into an NPC by moving your muscles for you

• VR could use a muscle-stimulating device that forces your head to turn 

• Fermilab engineers develop new control electronics for quantum computers that improve performance, cut costs 

• A new technique to delete single atoms can speed up molecule design 

• Computer simulations hold the key to understanding some of the world’s deadliest viruses

• Using sound waves to model the rotational dynamics of inertial many-particle clustering objects

• UChicago scientists uncover clues to mysterious but crucial genetic process

• The quest for an ideal quantum bit

• Mapping the digital divide: Data reveals internet inequities across the country

  • Deep disparities in internet access found across Chicago in new analysis

  • New study highlights disparities in internet access across Chicago neighborhoods

• Chicago scientists help capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

• New study lays out hidden backstory behind deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave

• Why clouds could be responsible for the 2021 deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest

• Why did Mars dry out? New study points to unusual answers

• Prof. Galli and Argonne scientists use quantum computers to simulate quantum materials

Education and Community

• Two PSD students awarded DOE Office of Science funds for graduate research

• Five UChicago faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences in 2022

• Shut the Sash: Behavior awareness program impacts campus sustainability

• Chicago’s South Side: Quantum tech’s great migration to the ‘Silicon Prairie’

• University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute comes forward with years of research on internet equity; the reality isn’t good for those living on South, West sides

• Profs. Young-Kee Kim and Edward “Rocky” Kolb earn the Kelly Prize for service to the Division

• 2020 Crafoord Prize Ceremony honoring Prof. Emeritus Eugene Parker

• Profs. He, Schmitz, and Wu among 2022 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards

• Instructors Ian Bongalonta, chemistry, and Trevor Hyde, mathematics, honored with teaching awards

• PSD graduate students earn Booth and Physical Sciences Prizes for Teaching

• Donald G. York to receive 2022 George Van Biesbroeck Prize from the American Astronomical Society

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