2024
Behind the byline
February 14, 2024
Physicist Katrina Miller, SM’18, PhD’23, revived her childhood love of writing to forge a career in science journalism.
Earthbound
February 14, 2024
In Henry Hinds Laboratory and now the Regenstein Library, Ruth Duckworth’s murals make an art of geophysical science.
University of Chicago professor talks human-centered AI, improved decision making at Technology and Social Behavior Colloquium
February 14, 2024
Daily Northwestern article highlights a talk on improving decision-making in AI given by Asst. Prof. Chenhao Tan.
Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture
February 14, 2024
Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters.
The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking
February 14, 2024
In a NYT article, Prof. Daniel Holz says, “It’s difficult to assess what’s good news and what’s bad news, from the perspective of humanity in the next century...black hole physics is a hell of a lot easier.”
The Granulobot
February 14, 2024
Physicists Baudouin Saintyves and Heinrich Jaeger develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties.
The seven transitions of Mars climate
February 13, 2024
Surface observations indicate that Mars’s early climate supported liquid water—rivers and lakes—for over a billion years. But like Earth, which has experienced both global ice ages and extreme heat over the past eon, Mars’s climate history may have been intermittent.
Alumni Spotlight: Dixin Tang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin
February 9, 2024
2020 PhD graduate Dixin Tang has just begun a rewarding career at UT Austin as an assistant professor of computer science. Tang took a look back at his time at UChicago, including the professors that made a lasting impact, his involvement with ChiData, and what has made all the difference in his current role.
UChicago scientists develop a plastic that can be re-formed as needed
February 9, 2024
Stuart Rowan and team developed a material called a “pluripotent plastic,” which has the ability to take on many forms.
A surprisingly simple model can explain how brain cells organize and connect
February 9, 2024
Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose model that could apply across a wide range of organisms.
AI could devastate the environment, but help is on the way
February 8, 2024
UChicago computer scientist Andrew Chien discusses zero-carbon cloud data centers in a Tech Times article.
Where do cosmic rays come from?
February 8, 2024
Space.com article cites UChicago research finding that over 90% of cosmic rays are hydrogen nuclei, 9% are the atomic nuclei of helium, and 1% are the nuclei of heavy elements like iron.
New research unites quantum engineering and artificial intelligence
February 2, 2024
Researchers at Pritzker Molecular Engineering, including CQE IBM postdoctoral scholar Junyu Liu of UChicago CS, and collaborators show in a new paper how incorporating quantum computing into the classical machine learning process can potentially help make machine learning more sustainable and efficient.
NeurIPS 2023 award-winning paper by DSI faculty Bo Li, DecodingTrust, provides a comprehensive framework for assessing trustworthiness of GPT models
February 2, 2024
In a year with a record-breaking number of paper submissions, Bo Li was awarded the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.
NetMicroscope uses AI to improve network monitoring for a better internet experience
February 2, 2024
Nick Feamster's NetMicroscope has developed a tool that lets customers monitor their network and extract meaningful data – enabling intervention before any problems become issues for the users.