News: Faculty

Chemist Bryan Dickinson discusses lab-grown meat following the USDA’s approval for consumer purchase.

Article discusses an open source tool Glaze 1.0 developed by UChicago computer scientists that protects artwork by shifting pixels around on images, making them more difficult for AIs to ingest.

Assistant professor of computer science Chenhao Tan comments on AI detection technologies, saying that “in general I don’t think they’re great, and I’m not optimistic that they will be.”

Computer science professor Rick Stevens discusses the capabilities of Argonne's supercomputer, Aurora.

Astrophysicist John Carlstrom discusses the launch of CMB-S4.

Photography by Keith Vanderlinde 

UChicago teaching award winners, including chemist Bozhi Tian, share their selections.

Photo by Jean Lachat

Prof. Dmitri Talapin, Doctoral Candidate Di Wang, and Postdoctoral Researcher Chenkun Zhou discuss a new method to synthesize MXenes.

Image by Di Wang

Prof. Amie Wilkinson discusses a series of new papers that describe how to reconstruct key dynamical systems with relatively little data.

Prof. Jack Szostak comments on several new papers that suggest a path for key biomolecules to have accumulated on Earth's surface in just one mirror image form, saying “it’s a real breakthrough...homochirality is essential to get biology started, and this is a possible—and I would say very likely—solution.”

Will the wildfires get worse? Prof. Elizabeth Moyer joins CBS 2’s Brad Edwards to talk more about the impacts of the Canadian wildfires.

Article notes that in 1896, Prof. Thomas Chamberlin wrote about carbon dioxide's role in regulating the earth's temperature.

University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf6-00222, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Article discusses the latest discoveries of NASA’s Parker probe, which is named after the late Eugene N. Parker, a UChicago astrophysicist who first predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958.

Image courtesy NASA

Prof. Angela V. Olinto has been reappointed as dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences, President Paul Alivisatos and Provost Katherine Baicker announced on June 5, 2023. A leading scholar in astroparticle physics and cosmology, Olinto is the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the Enrico Fermi Institute.

Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, wins 2023 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences for his contributions related to mathematical physics and to arithmetic geometry. 

This month PSD researchers have been recognized for their pioneering discoveries, the quality and innovation of their research programs, and their unique contributions to new fields of inquiry.