News: Faculty

For over a century, we’ve turned to technology in an attempt to control the weather. Are today’s geoengineering proposals any better? A Popular Science article references research by GS Prof. David Keith.

The Department of Chemistry has hired renowned chemical biologist Hening Lin as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He will serve a primary, tenured appointment with the Biological Sciences Division in the Department of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Chemistry as a Professor of Chemistry.

Researchers from the University of Chicago have developed a new method to use machine learning to turn static snapshots of cells into better pictures of how cells and genes change dynamically over time.

Groundbreaking report by leading energy researchers, including UChicago computer scientist Rick Stevens, provides ambitious framework for accelerating clean energy deployment while minimizing risks and costs in the face of climate change.

The Szostak lab's latest research highlights RNA replication dynamics, revealing competition between primers and competitors that challenges assumptions about genetic fidelity. This exploration not only aids our understanding of life's origins but also holds promise for applications in gene regulation and genetic stability.

UChicago scholars, including geochemist Nicolas Dauphas and physicists David DeMille and Bonnie Fleming, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining other scientists and researchers chosen in “recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Different types of solar geoengineering are seeing a push for more research. ABC News quotes GS professor David Keith, founding faculty director of the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative.

Partnering across fields of study can lead to advances from medicine to climate change. Chuan He, the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, frequently collaborates with scientists across the University of Chicago to expand the reach of his work.

Congratulations to physicist Bonnie Fleming and chemist Chuan He, who have been elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

Listen to a Scientific American podcast about Prof. Melba Phillips, a UChicago physicist who contributed to the development of nuclear physics and then became an outspoken critic of nuclear weapons.

CS Asst. Prof. Sarah Sebo discusses why her robot cheats at Rock, Paper, Scissors.

CS Prof. Andrew Chien is exploring ways to help big electricity users tap clean energy.

Profs. Guangbin Dong and Benoît Roux have made breakthroughs in organic synthetic chemistry and biophysics. They join the 2023 class, announced April 18, which includes scientists, engineers and innovators across multiple fields.

For the past two years, Chemistry Assistant Professor Sarah King has organized an open art contest in her CHEM 122 class. At the end of the quarter, several students are selected to present a visual project before the class that breaks down complex chemistry principles into creative works of art. By incorporating elements of creativity and communication, the competition serves multiple purposes in King’s pedagogical approach.

CS PhD Student Soumik Ghosh and Assistant Professor Bill Fefferman find that random circuit sampling problems that incorporate non-unital noise do not anticoncentrate, breaking every easiness and hardness result to date.