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’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
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