2025
First JFI Postdoc Happy Hour
May 30, 2025
Postdocs from multiple labs joined in the Spring JFI postdoc happy hour! Look out for another happy hour coming in the Fall.
2024
JFI Grad Students Claire Jones, Noah Mason, Emma McNesby, & Andy Zhang Receive NSF Research Fellowships
April 29, 2024
Vitelli and Gardel groups create new model to predict cell traction
January 30, 2024
The Vitelli and Gardel groups created new models for predicting cell traction forces. Their paper in Cell details how trained neural networks could predict the forces created by complex biochemistry using images of just fluorescent zyxin proteins.
2023
MRSEC teams discover method for direct measurement of non-Newtonian fluids
December 20, 2023
Di Wang awarded William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
October 30, 2023
2023 Winners of the JFI Image Contest
October 9, 2023
2022
2022 JFI Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Winner Announced
August 30, 2022
2017
New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects
February 15, 2017
Undergraduates in Chin group lead breakthrough work.
Third-year Frankie Fung and fourth-year Mykhaylo Usatyuk led a team of UChicago researchers who demonstrated how to levitate a variety of objects—ceramic and polyethylene spheres, glass bubbles, ice particles, lint strands and thistle seeds—between a warm plate and a cold plate in a vacuum chamber.
“They made lots of intriguing observations that blew my mind,” said Cheng Chin, professor of physics, whose ultracold lab in the Gordon Center for Integrative Science was home to the experiments.
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