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Blase Ur

Title: Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science and the College

Expertise: Human-computer interaction, Data privacy

University website: https://computerscience.uchicago.edu/people/profile/blase-ur/

Launch of NASA Parker Solar Probe

NASA Parker Solar Probe lifts off

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, named in honor of UChicago scientist Eugene Parker for his pioneering research on the solar wind, launched on the morning of Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

Launch of NASA Parker Solar Probe

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, named in honor of UChicago scientist Eugene Parker for his pioneering research on the solar wind, launched on the morning of Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

Yoonsun Choi

Title: Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Expertise: Youth, Culture, Immigrants, Asian-Americans

University website: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/crownscholars/ychoi

Alida Bouris

Title: Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Co-Director, The Chicago Center for HIV Elimination

Expertise: Adolescent health, HIV-AIDS, Pregnancy

University website: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/crownscholars/a-bouris

NASA space missions named after UChicago scientists

NASA space missions named after UChicago scientists

In 2017, Prof. Emeritus Eugene Parker became the first living person to have a NASA mission named after him: The Parker Solar Probe.

This honor extends UChicago’s legacy of excellence in astronomy and astrophysics throughout the past century. Parker joined fellow UChicago scientists Edwin Hubble, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nancy Grace Roman, Enrico Fermi and Arthur Holly Compton, who all received the honor of a named spacecraft posthumously.

NASA space missions named after UChicago scientists

In 2017, Prof. Emeritus Eugene Parker became the first living person to have a NASA mission named after him: The Parker Solar Probe. This honor extends UChicago’s legacy of excellence in astronomy and astrophysics throughout the past century. Parker joined fellow UChicago scientists Edwin Hubble, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nancy Grace Roman, Enrico Fermi and Arthur Holly Compton, who all received the honor of a named spacecraft posthumously.

Joan E. Neal

Title: Professor from Practice

Expertise: Contracts

University website: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/jneal

Thomas Miles

Title: Dean of the Law School; Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics

Expertise: Criminal Justice, Law and economics, Education, Immigration

University website: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/miles

Alison Siegler

Title: Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic

Expertise: Criminal justice reform, Bail reform

University website: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/siegler

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