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Event highlights faculty studies on AI’s role in education, and AI-driven research in fields ranging from oncology to visual arts.

Led by Xanadu, in partnership with the University of Chicago, the three-year project will focus on developing quantum algorithms to study key processes of defect formations in battery materials.

The Center for Organic Battery Innovation seeks to replace lithium-ion batteries with organic materials.

Professors including Wendy Friedman and Fred Ciesla discuss the special advanced screening of the movie "Project Hail Mary," placing science rather than Ryan Gosling as its focus. 

Chicago researchers, teachers, and curriculum leaders partnered to test if robots need fictional personalities to boost students’ social-emotional learning. Their results show that honest, factual robots can effectively supplement classroom instruction—challenging conventions and illuminating a new, ethical path for educational technology. The study was honored with the Best Paper Award at the prestigious 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
 

In this spring’s Compton Lectures, Keith McBride, a UChicago postdoctoral researcher, will illuminate how astroparticles can answer questions about the farthest reaches of our universe as well as be harnessed as practical tools to understand our earth. The free public talks run every Saturday from March 28 through May 16 at 11 AM.
 

University of Chicago’s PUEO mission floated above Antarctica for 23 days, collecting data on ultra-high energy neutrinos from 120,000 feet, with results expected in one year.

This March, the University of Chicago will become a crossroads for researchers, designers, artists, and technologists from around the world as it hosts the 20th ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI’26, from March 8–11, 2026. For UChicago students, faculty, and staff, it’s a chance to engage with leaders at the forefront of human-computer interaction and help celebrate two decades of innovation in tangible, embedded, and embodied technologies.

The workshop convened researchers to discuss progress on AI models, tools and data commons for applying AI to biology, medicine, and healthcare.

On February 17, Univision Chicago aired a feature on Space Explorers, a signature program of UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.

Astronomer Wendy Freedman shares humanity's quest to measure the expanding universe, revealing an exciting scientific mystery: our measurements don't match. Drawing from decades leading major observatories and the Giant Magellan Telescope project, she explains how the James Webb Space Telescope is achieving unprecedented accuracy in cosmic measurements.

The clock alerts humanity to the danger of nuclear catastrophe. With the expiration this week of an arms treaty between the United States and Russia, scientists say we are 85 seconds to midnight.

Unique UChicago-led instrument PUEO caught a ride aboard a NASA balloon in search of high-energy neutrinos.

How leading insurers are translating AI investment into growth, productivity, and value.

Argonne researchers put ​“vibe coding” tools to the test in scientific workflows.