News: 2023

WGN video features Data Science 4 Everyone director Zarek Drozdah discussing how AI tools can potentially be used in classrooms in a responsible way.

A design by UChicago researchers, including chemist Bozhi Tian, makes stable, suture-free medical monitoring in the body possible.

Crain's Chicago Business article discusses the importance of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, project at Fermilab, notes its ties to UChicago, and includes comments from physicist Ed Blucher about the neutrino: “There are trillions per second going through your body for your whole life but almost never interact with you—which is what makes it great to study.”

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Why startup founders, researchers, and students are calling the Midwest region ‘the premier hub for quantum’—and how their investments are strengthening the ecosystem. 

Hyde Park Herald memorializes Prof. Emeritus of Mathematics Melvin Gordon Rothenberg.

An Axios article highlights computer scientist Ben Zhao's tool "Glaze."

Congratulations to UChicago chemist Chuan He for his inclusion on the shortlist for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023. He is recognized for “Breaking the Wall of Food Insecurity.” 

To learn more about He's work, read his interview with Falling Walls.

In an Axios article, computer science professor Rick Stevens says, "We're trying to move beyond...an [AI] that is trained on a dataset and makes a prediction on that dataset."

The center is led by Argonne and has several university partners, including UChicago. With this renewal, the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials will continue its groundbreaking work in harnessing the power of theory and computation to accelerate the development of new materials with improved properties and functionality.

In Q&A, Geophysical Sciences professor Nicolas Dauphas discusses what we can learn from the mission to Phobos.

A New York Times article mentions J. Robert Oppenheimer's time at UChicago.

In a Scientific American article, Physics professor Cheng Chin discusses his research which led to the first-ever observation of 'quantum superchemistry.'

PALISADE-X aims to provide the security necessary to study life-threatening medical issues without violating patient privacy.

Geophysical sciences professor Noboru Nakamura says in a Crain's Chicago Business article that "if 110-degree temperatures are expected, then definitely we should look out for some major heat-related stress for the general public, but I don't think that's going to happen...nevertheless, I think it's going to be pretty warm and uncomfortable."

A Phys.org article announces that UChicago researchers led by astronomy postdoc Michael Zhang have reported the detection of a helium outflow from the atmosphere of a nearby mini-Neptune exoplanet known as TOI-2134 b.