2025
Fermilab opens applications for 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest
May 24, 2025
Fermilab has started accepting applications for a local photo contest this summer as part of a global contest. Photographers will be able to capture behind the science areas at Fermilab for a chance to be entered into the international competition this fall.
2025 AI+Science Hackathon challenges students to take on cutting-edge scientific problems with AI
May 24, 2025
Annual event invites students from across departments to apply machine learning methods to advance scientific discovery.
More control, less connection: how user control affects robot social agency
May 24, 2025
PhD Candidate Alex Wuqi Zhang studies whether allowing users to customize robot behavior might reduce how intelligent, autonomous, and agentic AI-powered robots seem to them.
Prize Winners for Educational Excellence 2025
May 23, 2025
This year, ten PSD instructors and students have been honored for excellence in teaching the next generation of scientists.
UChicago announces 2025 winners of Quantrell and PhD teaching awards
May 22, 2025
Congratulations to Professor of Computer Science David Cash and Professor of Chemistry Bryan Dickinson! In recognition of their incredible teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, Cash received a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award, and Dickinson was awarded a PhD Teaching and Mentoring Award.
Vincenzo Vitelli named Fellow-Ambassador by the CNRS
May 21, 2025
An internationally renowned theoretical physicist, Vitelli was recognized for his defining contributions to the fields of statistical physics, soft matter, and active matter.
Mark Levin, Associate Professor of Chemistry, receives a 2025 National Brown Investigator Award
May 19, 2025
Congratulations to Mark Levin! Each investigator, recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics, will receive up to $2 million over five years.
Richard L. Garwin, a creator of the hydrogen bomb, dies at 97
May 17, 2025
Many scientists contributed to the final result, but UChicago alumnus Richard Garwin was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most powerful weapon. He went on to advise a dozen presidents.
High school financial literacy course can reduce Illinois poverty
May 17, 2025
Research shows financial literacy boosts economic opportunity. The success of the University of Chicago’s FinEDge program shows it should be expanded.
Finding beauty and truth in mundane occurrences
May 17, 2025
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight.
Meet the ‘Planet Hunter’ searching for alien life, with Jacob Bean
May 17, 2025
In this episode of Big Brains, astrophysicist Jacob Bean studies atmospheres of distant worlds to identify habitable exoplanets.
At UChicago, mentorship drives the ‘front line of discovery’
May 17, 2025
Professor Mike Gladders helps transform students from learner to researcher through in-person astrophysical observation and research.
SRM360 launches to bring clarity and context to sunlight reflection methods
May 17, 2025
SRM360, a new nonprofit initiative co-founded by CSEi research assistant professor Peter Irvine, officially launches to bring clarity and context to the complex world of sunlight reflection methods (SRM).
Chemical biologist bridges basic discoveries to treatments for disease
May 17, 2025
Hening Lin brings expertise in enzymes to UChicago, where he works with biologists, chemists, engineers, and doctors to translate basic science to clinical applications.
Chicago Trading Company hosts 2nd annual poker tournament
May 15, 2025
DSI Industry Affiliate’s recruitment event draws 130 students for an evening of networking and fun.