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Shipra Parikh

Title: Associate Instructional Professor

Expertise: Social work

Departmental website: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/crownscholars/shipra-parikh

Janelle R. Goodwill

Title: Neubauer Family Assistant Professor

Expertise: Mental health, Suicide, Race and culture

Departmental website: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/crownscholars/j-goodwill

Personal website: https://www.janellegoodwill.com

John Anderson

Title: Associate Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: Chemistry, Materials science

Departmental website: https://chemistry.uchicago.edu/faculty/john-anderson

Bryon Aragam

Title: Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar

Expertise: Data Science, Econometrics, Machine learning, Statistics

Departmental website: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/a/bryon-aragam

Personal website : https://www.bryonaragam.com

The solar wind, explained

First proposed in the 1950s by UChicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles an hour.

The Doomsday Clock, explained

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction. The clock hands are set annually by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at UChicago after World War II.