Join C2ST as Dr. Hughes discusses recent and rapid advancements in forensic genomics analyses while also exploring the ethical, legal, and social stakes.
Continue reading “Forensic Genomic Technologies: New Frontiers Bring New Considerations”
Program Series: Technology and Engineering
The Technology, Engineering and Innovation (TEI) Series offers events that showcase the latest innovations and technology based research at both start-ups and large scale operations, by scientists and engineers.
Previous TEI events have covered high speed rail, nanotechnology, robots, tech incubators, machine learning, and medical imaging.
Distinguished speakers have included Adam Khan, CEO and founder of Akhan Semiconductors; Miles Wernick, Ph.D., Motorola Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Medical Imaging Research Center, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); and Amanda K. Petford-Long, Ph.D., Director for the Nanoscience and Technology Division and Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials.
Join C2ST and Dean Bashir to explore the grand opportunities to address grand challenges across engineering, biology, and medicine during COVID-19.
Continue reading “Science from the Frontlines: Engineering at the Service of Humanity”
The shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the increasing demand has been front and center in the struggle to contain COVID-19. Continue reading “Science From The Frontlines: 3D Printing PPE (Impresión 3D en acción: una introducción a la fabricación digital)”
With new true crime and crime-inspired shows flooding today’s media, it’s difficult to keep track of which technologies are actually real and which are figments of studio executives’ imaginations. Join C2ST, UChicago’s Crime Lab, the Chicago Police Department, and the FBI to learn about the real technology behind crime-solving efforts. Continue reading “CSI TECH: The Technology of Crime-Solving”
Join us for the 2019 Darsh T. Wasan lecture. Ellen Ochoa, Former Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and the first Hispanic woman astronaut will deliver this year’s lecture. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Hermann Hall Gallery Lounge.
Star Wars – the fight of the light side of the force against the dark side – is a story that has fascinated us for the last 40 years. A crucial part of this story is the unbelievable scientific and technological advances – traveling through hyperspace, lightsabers, holograms, the discovery of habitable planets – that fill the universe. Continue reading “The Science of Star Wars”
