News: Newsclips

Computer scientist Marshini Chetty and CS PhD student Jake Chanenson comment on the disparities in cyber data protection for schools compared to banks and other for-profit businesses in an article for The 74.

New institute will be an international hub focused on fundamental questions.

Image of a developing fruit fly eye courtesy of R. Carthew

A Wall Street Journal article notes the work of UChicago data-science researchers interning with private equity firms.

A Forbes article announces that UChicago has received a $15.5 million grant from the NSF to launch the NSF Physics Frontiers Center for Living Systems. Prof. Margaret Gardel, who will lead the center, says, "we aim to establish a new field of physics that focuses on how living matter adapts to its environment on timescales ranging from milliseconds to billions of years.”

Chuan He, who was shortlisted last month for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year, has been named the 2023 laureate for Life Sciences.

Center aims to establish a new field of physics to understand adaptation in living matter.

Computer scientist Bo Li outlines the path to safe self-driving cars, saying, "First of all, rigorous standardized testing is very important...there's no standardized testing yet," and adding that "we need to have various components to work together with a car, for instance, adding the traffic rules as a logical knowledge database, or adding the regulations so that the cars have not a single model."

A Newsweek article mentions UChicago researchers' success engaging in machine learning algorithm-based attacks on NIST-recommended encryption candidates.

Collaboration to spur innovation in fields ranging from quantum to AI to data science.

Drawing from letters, books, journals, photographs, astronomical glass plates, and scientific tools from the University of Chicago Library’s Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, as well as materials borrowed from Yerkes Observatory, Lowell Observatory, and the Adler Planetarium, a new exhibition explores the astronomical work and lived experiences of the women who contributed to astronomical research at the Yerkes Observatory. In so doing, it also foregrounds the ways in which Yerkes Observatory was a uniquely welcoming place for women and the role communities play in the advancement of both science and individual careers.

Exhibition Dates: September 18 – ­­­­December 15, 2023
Exhibition Location: The Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Photo: Astronomer at the 40-inch refractor telescope of Yerkes Observatory under the 90-foot dome. The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library.

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays.

Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Congratulations to...
Viresh Rawal: ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Guangbin Dong: Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
Mark Levin: Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

Congratulations to Daniel Gilman, who has been named a Brinson Prize Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.


 

Congratulations to Prof. Marcela Carena, Prof. Wendy Freedman, and Dean of the Physical Sciences Division Angela Olinto! The three PSD scientists have been named Notable Women in STEM by Crain's Chicago Business.

The NSF has awarded UChicago a $35 million contract to operate a new facility specializing in the application of a cyclic particle accelerator called synchrotron to Earth and environmental sciences.

Photo: Beamline scientist Tony Yu preparing an acoustic emission experiment for the 1000-ton multi-anvil press in the GSECARS 13-ID-D station.
Credit: Mark Rivers, University of Chicago