STAGE Lab

STAGE (Scientists, Technologists, and Artists Generating Exploration) is a laboratory for developing theatre and film inspired by science and technology.

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Check out this article about our recent game designs, presented at APS 2022!

https://t.co/6Q3py9kOGg

[UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering @UChicagoPME]

To demystify quantum mechanics, @STAGE_UChicago at Pritzker Molecular Engineering has developed the Quantum Casino, a 7-game suite designed to unknot physics most tangled laws.

Learn more about Quantum Casino and STAGE: https://t.co/rbWSISfbbd

#WorldQuantumDay #MidwestQuantum

[UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering @UChicagoPME]

To demystify quantum mechanics, @STAGE_UChicago at Pritzker Molecular Engineering has developed the Quantum Casino, a 7-game suite designed to unknot physics most tangled laws.

Learn more about Quantum Casino and STAGE: https://t.co/rbWSISfbbd

#WorldQuantumDay #MidwestQuantum

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

STAGE is back with our first group meeting of the quarter, this time discussing designs of Olympic Pictograms. A huge amount of work goes into communicating simplified sport information, as well as into demonstrating the artistic values of the host country.

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Jode Sparks shared his "Virtual Reality and New Dimensions in Media" presentation at STAGE group meeting about VR's potential sharing a number of examples including "Notes on Blindness." https://t.co/wekjlgHYZi

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Atman Mehta shared his short films at STAGE group meeting and asked us to consider whether there is a possibility to make change without usurping institutions by pretending we're not living in an oppressive structure and make a revolution in reverse...?
https://t.co/AhtcGZosYM

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Caroline Sullivan took us on a mind-blowing, literary tour of absence, the sublime and the abject in her thesis on Tom Est Mort by Marie Darrieussecq at STAGE group meeting along with her short story "Four Voices in a Hollow Wood."

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

The Television Academy Foundation is now accepting apps from undergrad and grad students nationwide for paid and unpaid spring and summer remote internships. Deadline to apply is January 19, 2021 at 5:00pm PT. Click thru for all the deets...
https://t.co/oSZraAa2tl

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Prior to National STEM day, STAGE joined forces with the PME's Junior Science Cafe to share the research, expertise and experiences of PME and Physics scientists with #ExelonSTEMAcademy high schoolers. Thanks, Wendy Bedwell-Wilson for this great article!
https://t.co/FFVkpyvDkc

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Thank you, Laura, for being STAGE's partner-in-crime, Elena, for your great Jr. Science Cafe, the panelists: Allison, Aziza, Andrea, Isadora and Ananya, the instigators for the event: Justine and Celeste, and most of all: the impressive Exelon Foundation STEM Academy teens!

[Exelon Corporation @Exelon]

Even though we can't get together in-person, #ExelonSTEMAcademy is finding ways for teen girls to learn more about #STEM. Last week, students learned about refraction & light through virtual experiments with @UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering 🔬. #UChicagoPME

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

It's Chicago Quantum Summit week! Nov 11-13 learn about the future of quantum information science and tech, workforce development, emerging research applications, and summit keynote by Scott Aaronson on "Quantum Computing: Fact v. Fiction." https://t.co/V8xN3a9qVo

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

STAGE's Director of Science Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar shared her love of National Parks last group meeting and revealed our less-than-perfect ability to match photos to parks. (We kept answering "Yellowstone!" or "Yosemite!" although Sunanda did sneak some Canadian parks in...!)

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Nicole Zhong turned the STAGE Lab group meeting this week into a virtual visual art gallery with a solo show of her sculptural and mixed media works - pictured is one that the artist intended, and the lab experienced, as a breakthrough...

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Alex Emerson shared his love of fonts and typography at last week's STAGE group meeting - including this example of a font that is easier for people with dyslexia to read...

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Happy Ada Lovelace Day and Week! At 3pm today 10/13 through Friday 10/16 talks and panels reimagine society through technology via art, industry, social justice and tech by celebrating women and non-binary technologists. Register here:
https://t.co/JCWUbrqKDr

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Current UChicago students, postdocs, faculty and staff - if you aren't already getting tested every week for Covid19 and you'll be on Hyde Park/Woodlawn campus - apply to the free Voluntary Surveillance Testing Program. Deadline is Thurs 10/15 before 5pm: https://t.co/pBjnS0gDfs

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

For last week's STAGE group meeting, postdoctoral scholar Natalia Povarova in the Department of Microbiology shared the delightful student film "Injection" that she helped create - especially in bringing movement to what is seen under the microscope...
https://t.co/aaLLVDgHUB

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

This weekend @HydeParkJazz is a go! Saturday 9/26 will be livestreamed concerts from the Logan Center starting at 4pm and Sunday 9/27 will be pop up, in person (yay!!!) performances in the neighborhood starting at 12:30 pm - click for who's where when...
https://t.co/yzFt5VOhae

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Questions about how to incorporate and start a nonprofit org and whether you need to? On 11/12 Lawyers for the Creative Arts offers its excellent workshop - named in memory of Bill Rattner who led them with his wealth of knowledge and wry humor for years.

https://t.co/Rvj3SIYhkK

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

Before Kayla Keener headed off to begin her MFA in Animation at UCLA (👏!!!) her presentation on "Animation, Experimentation and Technology" introduced the STAGE Lab Group to a 2013 stop-motion short made with atoms...https://t.co/ZPXLuKAXUi

[STAGE Lab @STAGE_UChicago]

PME Professor Supratik Guha's "Water to Cloud: Revolutionizing Water Quality Monitoring of Rivers" research in India is the launching point for STAGE's "The River Project." Dr. Guha is part of a new partnership to address major agricultural challenges...

https://t.co/ouhjyZd6kf