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Scaling up | Inquiry | Science & Medicine
Fall/16
… STORIES DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ISSUE (PDF) READ ADDITIONAL PSD NEWS Scaling up New computer science chair Michael Franklin discusses the past, present, and future of computation. By Author Maureen Searcy | Inquiry — Fall/16 Data science scholar, entrepreneur, and software developer Michael Franklin has begun his appointment as the Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and senior adviser to the provost on computation and data science. Franklin joined …
Storytelling, down to a science | The University of Chicago Magazine | Arts & Humanities
Winter/25… Science historian Jordan Bimm teaches Science Communication: Crafting a Science Think Piece, one of several elective courses included in the new Science Communication and Public Discourse minor in the College. (Photography by Jason Smith) …
Teaching science through <em>Star Trek</em> | The University of Chicago Magazine | Science & Medicine
Winter/21… (Illustration by John Jay Cabuay) Teaching science through <em>Star Trek</em> How Mohamed Noor, SMʼ95, PhDʼ96, uses science fiction to help students engage. By Author Maureen Searcy | The University of Chicago … convention and cruise presenter, media consultant, and YouTuber . His mission: to energize science education, with a Trekkie touch. On the convention circuit, Noor met Jayne Brook, a …
Coffee science | The University of Chicago Magazine | Science & Medicine
Sept–Oct/11
… (Photo by Jason Smith) Coffee science Cell biologist Stephanie Levi’s Night Labs series makes science accessible. By Author Ruth E. Kott, AM’07 | The University of Chicago Magazine — … "a structure in the cell that is like the cell's post office," she says on her website, Science-is-Sexy.com . "The Golgi takes newly made proteins (the mail) and attaches a sugar …
Science fare | Inquiry | Science & Medicine
04.09.2019… (iStock.com/Angelina Melik-Akopian) Science fare Physicist David McCowan, SM’08, PhD’14, explains food science to lay readers in the Takeout. By Author Maureen Searcy | Inquiry — 04.09.2019 As a … transition. As a UChicago laboratory instructor, he teaches physics majors to develop science intuition, to punch holes in everything they learn. And as a food-science columnist …
The future of science fiction is not American | Web exclusives | Arts & Humanities
04.03.2017
… courtesy Ada Palmer) Below: Ada Palmer. (Photo courtesy Ada Palmer) The future of science fiction is not American Ada Palmer, Renaissance scholar and science fiction author, on her new book, Seven Surrenders. By Author Carrie Golus, AB’91, … Palmer did a quantitative analysis of marginalia in manuscripts and printed books. In the science fiction category, she’s published two books in the Terra Ignota series: Too Like the …
Faculty additions, retirements, and accolades | Inquiry | Science & Medicine
Fall/17… Institute, and Kadanoff Center Blase Ur , Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science Vincenzo Vitelli , Professor in Physics Ben Zhao , Neubauer Professor of Computer Science Heather Zheng , Neubauer Professor of Computer Science Retirements Jonathan Alperin , Professor Emeritus in Mathematics Arieh Konigl , …
Data science meets public policy | The University of Chicago Magazine | University News
Jan–Feb/15… joined Chicago Harris as dean September 1, 2014. (Photography by Andrew Nelles) Data science meets public policy Chicago Harris dean Daniel Diermeier discusses the emergence of … from both a public policy and a technological perspective. This intersection of data science and public policy is an exciting development in the policy world. While the idea of … amounts of government data requires individuals trained in both public policy and computer science—an area where there is currently a tremendous scarcity of talent. The University of …
Shoptalk | Dialogo | Law, Policy & Society
Spring/Summer 2011
… Shoptalk History of science at Chicago. By Author Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 | Dialogo — Spring/Summer 2011 The names are a little clunky: the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (CHSS) and the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. But the work coming out of these two programs is anything but dull. …
Science for humanity ... and equality | Web exclusives | Science & Medicine
11.30.2017… Science for humanity ... and equality The Science Ambassador Scholarship offers a full ride for women studying science, technology, engineering, or math. By Author Maureen Searcy | Web exclusives — …