News: Faculty

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.

NASA’s latest offering to the stars comes from a legacy of great observatories that enabled decades of discovery and unearthed new mysteries about the universe.

Better understanding how a common channel opens and closes may help scientists build better medicines.

When a problem is so complex that solving it requires expertise from academia, industry, government and national laboratories, it becomes a grand challenge.

Please welcome the faculty joining the Physical Sciences Division in the ’26–27 academic year.

The new approach, backed by experimental evidence from an interdisciplinary team at UChicago, including chemical biologist Hening Lin, identified central disease-driving genes, most not previously linked to asthma.

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider sends protons crashing together at extraordinary speeds, allowing scientists to study the fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces that shape the universe. Those collisions help researchers investigate questions ranging from the behavior of subatomic particles to the possibility of new physics beyond what is currently known.

Research outlines a new workflow for design and manufacturing, illustrated by two new methane-fighting materials.

Laura Gagliardi and Mark Levin acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields.

Studying the atmospheres of lava worlds offers window to Earth’s earliest history, pathway to habitable worlds.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Sensing for Biophysics and Bioengineering (NSF QuBBE) with a $37.5 million, five-year investment to advance quantum sensing technologies that can reveal biological processes difficult or impossible to observe with conventional tools.

 

AI has now been turned to the sky because astronomers have a scheduling problem—Time on a major telescope is rationed.

The historic Fields Medal victories of two Peking University alumni have drawn attention to a wider generation of young Chinese scientists and technology entrepreneurs making their mark on the global stage.

Andrew Chien, professor at the University of Chicago and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, explains the three major reasons people are concerned with data centers in an interview conducted by SciLine, based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

As the global research community gathers in Chicago for the American Chemical Society’s yearly conference, UChicago faculty and leadership share insights and innovations