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Don’t Read into Timing on Supreme Court’s Lack of Tariff Decision, Says Constitutional Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

Talking Points Memo

“The Court very much resists the idea that what it’s doing is political in a number of senses, but one sense is in the kind of daily work of politics,” said Carolyn Shapiro, founder and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So I think that also could be some of it, that for some of them they want to convey this view of themselves as being somehow writing ‘for the ages.’”

Physics Professor John Zasadzinski Breaks Down Science Behind Quantum Park That’s Coming to South Side

WBEZ Radio

“Quantum bits can be coupled to each other, just like atoms can form molecules. You can make 100 of these quantum bits work cooperatively as one giant type of computing element, and that gives you an axis to solving problems that you cannot do with conventional processors,” says John F. Zasadzinski, professor of physics at Illinois Institute of Technology. “It can’t solve every problem, but there are certain types of problems that it is really good at solving in an amount of time that’s reasonable.”

Professor of Sustainability Weslynne Ashton: For Circular Economy Innovation, Look to the Global South

Harvard Business Review

Extreme heat in Japan and Australia. Flash floods in Texas and across Europe. Billion-dollar-damaging storms in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. These are no longer rare events but signs of mounting ecological stress that threaten long-term business continuity. The way companies manage natural resources—how they produce, sell, and dispose of products—is not sustainable. Yet within this challenge lies a strategic opportunity: the circular economy.

Virtual Synchronous Machines Can Help Stabilize Power Grids, Writes Max McGraw Endowed Chair of Energy and Power Engineering and Management Qing-Chang Zhong

IEEE Spectrum

Power grids are undergoing a massive transformation—from coal- and gas-fired plants to millions of solar panels and wind turbines scattered across vast distances. It’s not just a technology swap. It’s a complete reimagining of how electricity is generated, transmitted, and used. And if we get it wrong, we’re setting ourselves up for more catastrophic blackouts like the one that hit all of Spain and Portugal. The good news is that a solution developed by our group at Illinois Institute of Technology over the last two decades and commercialized by our company, Syndem, has achieved global standardization and is moving into large-scale deployment. It’s called Virtual Synchronous Machines, and it might be the key to keeping the lights on as we transition to a renewable future.