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One program, Quantum Sensing Summer Program with NSF QuBBE, offers Chicago high schoolers two weeks of lab immersion.

The multidisciplinary Center develops materials with practical applications, like methane capture, water harvesting and CO2 conversion. The Center is led by Laura Gagliardi, the Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry.

UChicago researchers have developed a new liquid biopsy test that uses RNA modifications to detect early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy.

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was likely harsh desert for most of the recent past.

Edward Anders, who passed away June 1st at the age of 98, helped to map the history of the solar system and documented the Holocaust. 

Career-focused programs teach cutting-edge skills while supporting students at UChicago and beyond.

Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute's Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics highlighting core ideas underlying AI.

Hank Snowdon joined the Seattle Mariners with a lifelong love of baseball and a powerful new data science skill set. He’s now helping shape player decisions in one of Major League Baseball’s front offices.

Students built an AI-powered dashboard that could help airlines anticipate spikes in passenger demand. 

John Peoples passed away on June 25, 2025. He was the third director of Fermilab, remembered as a prolific physicist and a hands-on leader.

University of Chicago chemist Stuart Rowan develops temperature-responsive materials that could improve manufacturing and 3D printing.

A new study from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, including UChicago chemists Greg Engel and Dmitri Talapin, could help scientists and engineers better understand how to tune quantum dots—tiny semiconductor nanocrystals that harness quantum mechanics to release energy as light—for different technologies.

Mina Rees, PhD’31 (1902–97), was the first woman elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and helped scientific research flourish.

Edwin Kite discusses the parallels between Earth's and Mars's carbon cycles and the implications. 

Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the Doomsday Clock are the closest they’ve ever been to midnight.