News: Faculty

PhD student Anup Sathya and Assistant Professor Ken Nakagaki introduce Attention Receipts, a tangible solution aimed at increasing awareness of digital consumption habits and navigating the complexities of technology's impact on human agency. Through this innovation, they seek to foster a culture of introspection in the digital age.

Chandra X-ray telescope reveals hot gas traveling along a “chimney” as it’s ejected.

The Dickinson Lab introduced a proximity labeling method to map RNA molecules within cells. This technique, developed by graduate student Shubhasree Pani and Dr. Tian Qiu, enhances the understanding of RNA functions and cellular organization.

Congratulations to the 2024 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: John Carlstrom!

This year, nine PSD instructors and students have been honored for excellence in teaching the next generation of scientists.

Continuing a collaboration catalyzed by generous support from the Margot and Tom Pritzker Foundation, the University of Chicago and Caltech will advance the integration of AI into scientific research and development.

Fred Chong, the Seymour Goodman Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award. Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics and the College, has won a Faculty Award for Excellence in PhD Teaching and Mentoring.

Congratulations, Profs. Chong and Nagel!
 

Researchers from the University of Chicago, including chemist Chuan He, show that a drug molecule targeting RNA modifications in neuroblastoma cells suppresses tumor growth in mice.

Increased temperatures from climate change cause ponds that weaken ice, expedition finds.

Travel inside Prof. Chuan He’s lab and meet the scientists working on new ways to boost plant growth and drought resistance with a technique based on RNA.

In the US, the University of Chicago has built one of the country's longest quantum networks. It is almost 200km (124 miles) long and growing. BBC article cites physicist David Awschalom's work.

Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet. GS Assoc. Prof. Elisabeth Moyer is cited in the NYT article.

Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for some bizarre cosmic quirks. Physicist Cheng Chin's research is referenced in this Scientific American article.

"My colleagues call me a supervillain for trying to destroy the cosmos, but this kind of imaginative thinking isn't so far from what scientists do," says space reporter Leah Crane. A New Scientist article quotes Wendy Freedman about how "we need wacky ideas."

A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years. Quanta article quotes UChicago astrophysicist Joshua Frieman.