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Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech. 

Argonne Laboratory helps develop Quantinuum’s 56-bit trapped-ion computer, which has succeeded in demonstrating randomness in quantum circuits to establish secure, private connections.

Fermilab welcomed two baby bison last month, marking the start of calving season at the Department of Energy’s particle physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. With 23 cows and two bulls in the herd, visitors can witness these iconic animals in their natural habitat, either in person or via the Fermilab bison camera.

The Data Science Institute and Google are partnering to launch new research to address security, privacy, and digital safety within artificial intelligence. 

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
 

New study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations.
 

A publication from the Chuan He lab has been selected as one of Nature Magazine's "Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024."
 

IBM and the University of Chicago are deepening their partnership to accelerate quantum computing advancements, with significant implications for disciplines like chemistry.

A novel bioelectronic approach by the Bozhi Tian Group uses nanocatalysts to pre-condition cells against stress.

Interdisciplinary UChicago research will use machine learning to create delicate, complicated quantum materials.

Researchers and enthusiasts from the Great Lakes region gathered at the University of Chicago for a day of engaging talks, networking, and collaboration in the inaugural Great Lakes Graphics Workshop organized by the 3DL Lab.
 

Congratulations to Don York, PhD’71, the Horace B. Horton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics! The Norman Maclean Faculty Award recognizes UChicago scholars’ contributions to teaching and student life.

Rina Foygel Barber, Louis Block Professor of Statistics, Margaret L. Gardel, Horace B. Horton Professor of Physics and Molecular Engineering, and Peter B. Littlewood, Professor of Physics and Chair, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
 

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Calegari’s research is in the area of algebraic number theory. He is particularly interested in the Langlands program, a set of mathematical ideas that has been called the "grand unified theory of mathematics.”

Professor Heinrich Jaeger contributes to the creation of thin, flexible sheets of self-assembled nanoparticles of magnetite that can be lifted and bent using an external magnetic field.