News: Events

2025

Front-row view of COP30 inspires UChicago students to pursue climate interests

November 21, 2025

students in front of the COP30 sign

Global climate change conference brought together policymakers, industry and civic leaders.


The DSI opens the doors to its new home

November 21, 2025

DSI's new home

Celebrating partnerships that make breakthrough research and innovation possible.


The impact of international exchange

November 21, 2025

UChicago–Taiwan Student Exchange Fellows

UChicago–Taiwan Student Exchange Fellows advanced technical research skills and built professional networks.


Expanded Chicago Quantum Summit highlights role of coordinated action

November 13, 2025

Dana Anderson of Infleqtion displays a component of Infleqtion’s quantum sensor for rotation and acceleration

Summit draws attendees from at least 15 countries, 32 universities and 168 companies.


Life itself

October 24, 2025

Nobel Laureate Assembly

Nobel laureates and nuclear experts urge action on a looming threat.


Converging conversations on how life began

October 17, 2025

Origins Federation Conference brochure 2025

The Origins Federation Conference united scientists across disciplines in the search for how life emerged and evolved.


Space Explorers preparing Chicago youth for the future since 1991

October 13, 2025

A Space Explorers student testing their boat design

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics program connects students from Chicago Public Schools with UChicago astronomers and physicists.


Largest-ever South Side Science Festival puts UChicago STEM in kids’ hands

October 10, 2025

child catapults tiny pumpkin at South Side Science Festival

The festival’s 110 hands-on activities let kids play with lasers, make robots dance, synthesize gloopy slime worms, compare animal skulls, practice CPR and see their world under powerful microscopes. 


Young scientists take over U. of C. quad

October 10, 2025

Child skateboarding at the South Side Science Festival

The Hyde Park Herald covers the fourth annual South Side Science Festival.


2025 South Side Science Festival brings UChicago STEM to the community

September 26, 2025

volunteer uses bicycle wheel to teach science

Skateboard physics and the cutest robots known to science await attendees of Oct. 4 campus event.


NobleReach scholar bridges tech and public service through MSCAPP and AI advisory work

September 19, 2025

Gregory Mitchell

UChicago MSCAPP grad Gregory Mitchell named NobleReach Scholar, joining Montgomery County’s AI Advisory Council to advance tech for public good.


The DSI partners with CNRS to host fourth annual AI+science summer school in Paris

September 9, 2025

Chun-Hao To, William Denault, Kyle Crocker, Shira Lupkin, Rebecca Willett, Jalal Fadili, Jordan Shivers, Ritesh Kumar.

Introducing the next generation of international, interdisciplinary researchers to AI-enabled scientific discovery.


Master’s in Applied Data Science summer 2025 Capstone showcase

September 9, 2025

Glasses in front of computer screen showcasing code.

At the Summer 2025 Master’s in Applied Data Science Capstone Showcase, 18 teams tackled real-world problems with advanced data science, with winning projects in energy, healthcare, and agriculture.


2025 summer research symposium caps off a successful year of DSI summer programs in Chicago

September 9, 2025

Photo of students and staff gathered during the 2025 Summer Research Symposium.

Students shared findings from eight weeks of discovery and development.


A bet worth placing: computing and data science at UChicago

September 9, 2025

Photo of the front of Crerar Library.

The Department of Computer Science and Data Science Institute hold indispensable roles at the University, enriching the broader intellectual environment while offering meaningful benefits to both students and faculty.