News: Faculty

Wellcome Leap awarded $2 million to Seymour Goodman Professor Fred Chong and his team to utilize quantum computing for identifying cancer biomarkers. The project aims to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment through advanced computational methods.

The 2025 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize has been awarded to Ewain Gwynne for his work in conformal probability, which studies probabilistic objects such as random curves and surfaces.

In December 2024 Stuart A. Rice, the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, died at the age of 92. President of the University of Chicago Paul Alivisatos, AB’81, pays tribute to an incomparable teacher whose influence on him endures.

The nanomaterials pioneer talks about coming from a family of immigrants, wandering as an undergraduate, and finding his compass.

Research finds commonly mandated training, such as annual training methods, may be insufficient; emphasizes the need for complementary approaches to better protect organizations against phishing attacks.

Read an interview with Cédric Cerna, Director of the International Research Laboratory in Particle Physics and Cosmology (IRL PPC) and Visiting Scholar at the Enrico Fermi Institute here at UChicago.

Exploring how we can rethink e-waste, repair, and sustainability in computing, Jasmine Lu discusses her research on reducing electronic waste, designing for reuse, and fostering a more sustainable approach to technology.

Climate science has correctly predicted many aspects of the climate system and its response to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Recently, discrepancies between the real world and our expectations of regional climate changes have emerged, as have disruptive new computational approaches. Researchers, including Geophysical Sciences Professor Tiffany Shaw, provide an interpretation for the situation, suggesting the field is evolving and that embracing discrepancies is a key path forward.

Fermilab is finalizing a partnership with Diraq and several universities, including UChicago, for the Quandarum project. The project team intends to combine extreme environment electronics and silicon spin qubits to develop a quantum sensor that could profoundly impact the field of high-energy physics.

Physicists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Chicago have demonstrated a series of ‘odd’ objects that are remarkably good at moving across any terrain they encounter—including uphill and over obstacles placed in their way.

Prof. Giulia Galli unpacks breakthrough research that probes water's molecular architecture.

MAROON-X, an instrument created by Prof. Jacob Bean's team, finds evidence for planets around famous Barnard’s Star.

Lin Lab provides innovative strategy for combating cancer.

In a new UChicago study, researchers discovered a method to transform an ingredient used in herbal tea to make hydrogel, a substance that can be used for biomedical purposes.

Two young Chinese mathematicians, including associate professor of mathematics Yu Deng, along with an international collaborator, may have solved a century-old problem in fluid mechanics--an area of study that is critical to many engineering fields, including hydraulic systems, the design of dams and bridges, and aerodynamics. [paywall]