News: 2024

Hyde Park Herald article highlights an art contest held by UChicago astronomy and astrophysics department with the aim of connecting more South Side elementary students to the cosmos.

NYT article features research led by Prof. Stuart Rowan that developed a new type of plastic with properties that can be set with heat and then locked in with rapid cooling, a process known as tempering; unlike classic plastics, the material retains this stiffness when returned to room temperature.

Crain's article includes comments from Prof. Daniel Holz examining the global threats possibly putting the world closer to apocalypse. 

In a recent study published in collaboration between UChicago and UW Madison, researchers have uncovered new insights into how nitrogen centers couple together under copper catalysis. Their work challenges conventional wisdom and opens new avenues in the field of chemical reactivity.

Currently a third-year PhD student in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Alice Luna has been analyzing spectroscopic data from telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory to study the metallicity distributions of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that provide archaeological access to the first stars and galaxies.

In a Venture Beat article, CS Prof. Ben Zhao comments on the fact that his lab's tool "Nightshade" has received 250,000 downloads in the five days since its release, saying that "the response is simply beyond anything we imagined."
 

Vera Dragisich, PhD’90, a senior instructional professor in the Department of Chemistry, has served as director of academic programs and graduate studies and associate director of undergraduate studies. Throughout her career, she has launched and championed a wide variety of inclusion initiatives.

Using Cascaded Score Distillation, Dale Decatur and the 3DL lab create 3D Paintbrush: a tool that makes high-resolution 3D edits in localized regions of 3D objects.

Chemist Gregory Voth and team assemble massive model of the nuclear pore complex and HIV-1 virus capsid.

In a WBEZ audio piece, Prof. Daniel Holz discusses the history and process of the Doomsday Clock.

In an ABC 7 video, Prof. Ben Zhao discusses Nightshade, a tool that protects artwork from being mimicked by AI.

Every year, the Bulletin determines how much metaphorical time we have to avert catastrophe for humankind. Over the past 75 years, the hands of the clock have moved according to whether steps were taken to address threats that could end human civilization on Earth, including climate change and nuclear war.

The University of Chicago, Seoul National University, and the University of Tokyo have agreed to promote a global partnership on academic exchange and research in the field of quantum science and technology.

As their recent research in Nature Chemical Engineering demonstrates, the Bozhi Tian lab, led by graduate student Jiuyun Shi, has developed new interfaces that offer adaptability, precision, and targeted interactions with biological components, a discovery that could have significant implications for the future of healthcare.  

The scientists predicting the probability of a worldwide catastrophe have stated that the Doomsday Clock is still at ninety seconds to midnight.

London Evening Standard article notes that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded in part by UChicago scientists and that the Doomsday Clock is now housed at the University's Harris School of Public Policy.