January 2024

M87* One Year Later: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018.  With the participation of the newly commissioned Greenland Telescope and a dramatically improved recording rate across the array, the 2018 observations give us a view of the source...

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Comparative Insights: AI and Human Analysis in Educational Research

BY Katie Kim, URC Intern Fall 2023

At the URC we are interested in student and faculty perspectives on generative AI. To explore how it is affecting our faculty we conducted a study in Fall 2023. During this process, I engaged in an intriguing experiment: after analyzing the AI Focus Group meeting notes myself, I tasked generative AI with the same analysis to compare the outcomes. This experiment was designed to examine how the AI's interpretation and insights might differ from a human perspective. Let's examine various aspects of these differences....

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