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The fifth annual South Side Science Festival brought thousands to the campus for hands-on science experience and a day of curiosity.

Robots demonstrating dance moves made popular by the late entertainer Michael Jackson, mini-catapults sending plastic gourds soaring toward a cauldron, paper airplane competitions and ice cream frozen by liquid nitrogen were among the demonstrations on offer at the fifth annual University of Chicago South Side Science Festival.

Martha Dehoyos watched as three of her children dug through trays of mud, sand and pebbles looking for fossils at the paleontology booth Saturday afternoon during the fifth annual South Side Science Festival.

For the first time since the U.S. National Science Foundation renewed and expanded the nation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes, representatives from each Institute will convene at Q2B x Chicago Quantum Summit to discuss their efforts to solve the complex hurdles facing the quantum technology sector as it nears utility-scale deployment.

Join DSI for the 2026-27 Distinguished Speaker Series!

Dancing robots, mutant Legos and rocks that rock mark the fifth annual UChicago STEM community outreach event.

As a 2004 graduate of the University of Chicago’s Master of Science in Financial Mathematics program, Faraco recalls how his small FinMath cohort became its own sort of family, spending the majority of their days together in Eckhart Hall.

Running through Nov. 15, the new installation from Argonne and UIC takes viewers from atoms and the human body to hurricanes, black holes and the evolution of the universe, bringing simulation data to life at an extraordinary scale.

Annual community gathering invites the wider community to the UChicago campus for a day of discovery and hands-on science demonstrations.

The University of Chicago Data Science Institute (DSI) partnered with the Gary Comer Youth Center (GCYC), XChange Chicago, United Airlines, Girl Security, and Chicago Youth Works to launch GCYC’s Tech Pre-Apprenticeship Program – a paid, six-week experience designed to create accessible pathways into the data science field and inspire young adults to explore careers in technology.

Argonne scientists are hitting the road, bringing AI out of the lab and into libraries, museums and community centers. No jargon. Just great science.

The Youth Internship Program, a Chicago Youth Works partner, is one of a broad suite of free academic, scientific, and creative initiatives UChicago offers Chicago high school students each summer, offering structured exposure to prospective career pathways across STEM, healthcare, and the arts, while also preparing local youth for college.

This summer, 48 undergraduate and high school scholars participated in the UChicago Data Science Institute’s Summer Research Programs — the first cohort hosted in the DSI’s new home, the Lorraine and Yuji Suzuki Center.

The University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science program celebrated the culminating work of its graduating students at the Summer 2026 Capstone Showcase on August 15th.

New nine-month program prepares technically experienced students to move beyond AI fundamentals and build, deploy, and lead with emerging technologies.