News: Faculty

A UChicago News “explainer” on University of Chicago meteorologist Ted Fujita and how he devised the Fujita Scale, the internationally accepted standard for measuring tornado severity.

Prof. Laura Gagliardi of Dept. of Chemistry has been elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest existing learned societies.

A group of scientists, including those from the University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have released an innovative new design for an experiment to find dark matter. This particular detector—Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection, or BREAD— will search for one possible form, called an “axion” with different masses.

Professor of Physics Edward Blucher catches up with The Chicago Maroon about his 2021 AAAS funded work on asymmetry and an experiment deep underground in a mine in northern Ontario that is looking at a rare type of nuclear decay.

A UChicago College science communication course co-taught by Prof. Peggy Mason and Sara Serritella covers written, visual and hands-on methods of sharing data with the general public.

For World Quantum Day, Prof. David Awschalom comments in Forbes’ brief overview of where quantum computing, communications, and sensing and its industry and investments are going, where quantum is today, and how we got here.

Jasmine Lu, Ziwei Liu, Jas Brooks, and Prof. Asst. Pedro Lopes of the Human Computer Integration Lab are developing a new kind of haptic feedback they've dubbed chemical haptics, applying it to five different virtual reality experiences.

The 2022 Darwin-Wallace Medal from The Linnean Society of London has been awarded to University of Chicago paleobiologist David Jablonski in honor of his making major advances in evolutionary science.

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim is among the 180 Guggenheim fellows selected in this year’s class from nearly 2,500 applicants. He is recognized for introducing high-level algebra, geometry and topology to applied mathematics. In particular, he works with a type of mathematical object called a tensor and how the concept can be used in computational mathematics and the information sciences.

On March 31, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced that Lek-Heng Lim, Professor of the Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, and the College, is among 26 members to be honored in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows.

A top flight of architects and structural engineers will present public lectures on some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary structural design as part of a unique physics undergraduate course offered this Spring Quarter at the University of Chicago, Physics & Contemporary Architecture (PHSC11800) taught by Professors Sid Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger. Enrolled undergraduate students, as well as the interested public, can join online for free Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. CST.

The Physical Sciences Division has many programs ranked highly in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report top science graduate schools rankings.

A new study introduces a breakthrough in making nanocrystals function together electronically. The research led by Prof. Dmitri Talapin, Department of Chemistry, may open the doors to future devices with new abilities.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science Junchen Jiang received the NSF CAREER Award to study how individual preferences and machine learning can help automatically optimize video quality while also conserving valuable bandwidth. The award, the NSF’s most prestigious for early-career faculty, was one of six awarded to UChicago CS faculty during the 2021-22 cycle.

Famed astrophysicist Eugene Parker, who died March 15, “touched” the sun and the hearts of the Homewood-Flossmoor community, where he lived for more than 50 years. The Chicago Tribune memorializes Parker, recalling his humble dedication to area causes, to nature and to his neighbors.