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2025

Three research assistant professors join CSEi in its first year

November 7, 2025

view of Earth from space lit up at night

As the Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) at the University of Chicago enters its second year, it continues to grow its research capacity and expertise across key areas of climate systems engineering.


AI-powered network management: GATEAU Project advances synthetic traffic generation

November 7, 2025

Nick Feamster

Nick Feamster and Francesco Bronzino lead international collaboration to develop generative AI techniques that create high-fidelity network data, addressing critical challenges in machine learning, privacy, and network security.


New study revises our picture of the most common planets in the galaxy

November 7, 2025

illustration of a “mini-Neptune”

Research led by UChicago’s Eliza Kempton finds some ‘mini-Neptunes’ likely have solid surfaces rather than molten interiors.


Quantum research centers led by Argonne and Fermilab renewed for five years

November 7, 2025

two scientists work at one of two national quantum foundries created by Q-NEXT during its first run

UChicago-affiliated laboratories each receive $125 million to advance next-generation quantum science and technology.


Delays and rejections can redirect you

November 7, 2025

desk with open book in front of window

How Zeel Patel, an Indian student in UChicago's Masters in Applied Data Science program, built a career from setbacks.


Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust

November 7, 2025

sun in a cloudy sky

Two scientists, including David Keith, argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.


J. Peter May named one of the recipients of the 2026 AMS Elias M. Stein Mentoring Award

November 7, 2025

Congrats to J. Peter May, who received the 2026 AMS Elias M. Stein Mentoring Award for exceptional mentoring. 


Heinrich Jaeger receives the American Physical Society’s 2026 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize

November 5, 2025

Heinrich Jaeger

Congratulations to Heinrich Jaeger, who has received the American Physical Society's 2026 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize.


Frank Calegari receives 2026 AMS Frank Nelson Cole Prize for Number Theory

November 5, 2025

Frank Calegari

Congratulations to Frank Calegari, who is recognized for his work presenting a striking and original proof resolving a conjecture that had stood since 1968, showing that the coefficients of any noncongruence modular form possess unbounded denominators.


Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt elected to lead Giant Magellan Telescope board of directors

November 4, 2025

from left: Taft Armandroff, Walter Massey, and Brian Schmidt

New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as chair of the GMTO Corporation Board of Directors.


These water-rich exoplanets shouldn’t exist—now astronomers finally know how they’re so wet

November 4, 2025

illustration of a water-rich exoplanet

Scientists report the discovery of surprisingly water-rich exoplanets, despite forming in places once believed to be far too hot for water to exist. Now, a new study published in the journal Nature suggests these mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within their interiors.


Constraints on quantum-advantage experiments due to noise

November 4, 2025

schematic showing a computation performed on a set of qubits

Current quantum computers are noisy, which places limitations on the type of quantum machine needed to outpace classical computers. An op-ed by Bill Fefferman.


Moon Duchin on the ‘mathematical quagmire’ of gerrymandering

November 4, 2025

Moon Duchin

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.


UChicago students explore the frontiers of physics and climate modeling

November 4, 2025

rendering of DarkNESS-CubeSat

Research internships at national laboratories provide hands-on experiences and mentorship.


UChicago Explainer Series: Exoplanets, explained

October 31, 2025

Exoplanet graphic

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists have been discovering more and more of these faraway planets—about 6,000 of them so far. But scientists think there are trillions more out there in the universe.