Spotlight

David Hildebrand, Philosophy Professor, will present on the ethics of data and A.I. at two conferences this September. In Helsinki, Finland he presents “Autonomy and Ethics in an Age of Algorithmic A.I” at the University of Helsinki and “Algorithms, A.I. and Data in Education: New Promises and Core Values” at...

Xiaofei Gao, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a 2023 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies . This program is made possible by a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation , and is administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American...

Chloe N. East, Assistant Professor in Economics, has a working paper out that is very relevant to debates related to work requirements for SNAP, The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers .

Honors ACS Certified BS in Chemistry 2020 Alum, current PhD Candidate in Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and NSF GRFP Fellow Tanja Kovačević was recently featured in a Vox video profiling the National Ignition Facility explaining her work on the giant laser being used to replicate a planet’s core.

Political Science Associate Professor Tony Robinson’s second book on Korean studies to come out in the last year, A Flying Dragon , is the only English-language biography of the founding King of Korea’s 500-year Choson dynasty. The book was recently highlighted by Hankyoreh , one of Korea’s leading newspapers. His...

Philosophy Professor Candice Shelby presented a paper on June 9 entitled "Biological Coding in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy," at the Ninth International Code Biology Conference in Guimaraes, Portugal. This conference brought together an international collection of biologists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, and linguists to highlight the role of codes in biology, from the molecular...

On May 25, the University of Chicago Press published Associate Professor of English John Tinnell’s new book, The Philosopher of Palo Alto : Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things . In June, Tinnell delivered talks about his book at Stanford University, Books Inc., the Palo Alto...

Diana F. Tomback, Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, recently accepted a nomination to be one of a dozen people on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Whitebark Pine Recovery Team . Tomback is now on four working groups associated with this effort (Restoration, Nutcracker, Monitoring, Indigenous) and co-chair...

Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Sara Branco was recently awarded a $1,169,284 Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Director’s Science Program grant entitled ‘ Myco-Ed: Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery’ . This multi-institution effort lead by the JGI and involving the Arizona Genomics Institute, CU Denver, CU Boulder,...

The annual Western States Chemical Education Conference was hosted April 22-23 by Priscilla Burrow and Damian Dunford, faculty in the Chemistry department. Students and faculty from 14 different colleges and universities participated in workshops, panel discussions, roundtables, and a poster session. Attendees discussed topics such as student motivation, ways to...