My group's research focuses on understanding how galaxies in the early (z>1) universe formed and evolved. In particular, much of our recent work aims to reveal and study the dust-obscured star formation and cold gaseous reservoirs of distant galaxies that have until recently been out-of-reach (see my recent invited review article on the advances made with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, in particular). Some media coverage of our discoveries and a few selected topics are highlighted below.