News: Faculty

2020 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prizes for Exceptional Service in the PSD awarded to Bryan Dickinson, Margaret Gardel, and Chuan He for contributions to COVID-19 research and relief efforts

NASA telescope to be named for Nancy Grace Roman, a pioneering woman astronomer who earned her doctorate at UChicago

Prof. Diana Franklin co-lead writer of NSF report on key concepts for quantum education

Ocean circulation may hold the key to finding life on exoplanets and planets exactly like Earth may not be best places to look, UChicago study finds

Data astronomy research co-led by Asst. Prof. Alex Drlica-Wagner reveals ‘groupie’ galaxies orbiting Milky Way tell us about dark matter, how galaxy formed

Mathematician measures the repulsive force within polynomials with a new mathematical proof involving the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture. Prof. Frank Calegari comments

Prof. Susan Kidwell honored for pioneering work on fossil record. Paleontological Society Medal recognizes scientist’s conservation paleobiology research

CDAC’s new AI + Science grants fund projects and workshops in chemistry, physics, and CS Education

Meteorologist and UChicago Prof. Ted Fujita profile on PBS American Experience: Mr. Tornado: One Man’s Pursuit to Understand the Deadliest Storms airs May 19

Glowing algebra theorems and glimpses into hospital: UChicago students learn remotely from mathematician in Russia, through daily office hours, from COVID-19 doctors

Researchers to develop AI to help diagnose, understand COVID-19 in lung images. UChicago, Argonne study hopes to learn to identify cases and guide treatment
 

Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, among three UChicago scholars elected to American Philosophical Society. He is a pioneer in studying non-linear and far-from-equilibrium behavior in disordered systems.

Prof. Wendy Freedman reflects on astronomer Wiliamina Fleming for American Masters' UNLADYLIKE2020 short film series. Fleming was a pioneering observational astronomer and the first woman to ever hold a title at Harvard University.

Asst. Prof. Suri Vaikuntanathan has been awarded a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in the chemical sciences. The prize of $100,000 will support his research on “Controlling Organization, Self-Assembly, and Dynamics in Complex Non-Equilibrium Systems.”

‘Revolutionary’ UChicago simulations point to self-assembly behavior for viral restriction. Study explains how the Rhesus macaques’ immune protein, called TRIM5α, works its magic, and represents a significant step forward in the science of modeling how complex biological proteins assemble themselves.