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'Advancing Together' report offers roadmap for strengthening quantum-focused awareness, preparation, mobility, employer leadership, and coordination.

This past weekend, a new group of high school students graduated from the Saturday Morning Quantum program. Hosted by Fermilab, the course allows students to engage directly with lab quantum scientists and engineers while exploring core topics in quantum science.

In a UChicago Magazine interview, President Paul Alivisatos, AB’81, reflects on preserving, renewing, and expanding what makes the University of Chicago vital.

Physics grad student Nathaniel Alden found that high-energy particle impacts can produce radio flashes from within Antarctic ice.

David Awschalom speaks on the history of quantum technologies, how it shapes the Chicagoan identity, and how the technology may shape the future. 

Congratulations to Rebecca Willett, the 2026 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize!

UChicago physics PhD student Robert Weinbaum uses games to explain complex concepts.

The University of Chicago announced a new partnership with AI Research Commons, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to support and accelerate early-stage artificial intelligence startups emerging from Midwest research institutions.

Marking the centenary of the Schrödinger equation, the 2026 award honors Gagliardi’s transformative work in climate solutions and multireference quantum theory.

Second year PhD student Jiayin Zhi finds that time constraints, as well as when AI access is available, shapes human critical thinking.

Research findings show that writing with AI can reduce gender biases in the workplace and that AI disclosure is complex and can impact authorial perception.

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), a team led by Prof. Laura Gagliardi outlined a new method for excluding water when using covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to build carbon capture materials.

A tiny star with almost no metals has just been found in the Milky Way, but it’s from somewhere else entirely.

UChicago Data Science Institute faculty as one of eight teams receiving a Laude Institute Moonshots seed grant.

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab received the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics for its precision measurement of the muon. Young-Kee Kim attended the ceremony as Emeritus Director of Fermilab.