News: Faculty

A UChicago research team created a nanoplasmonic material that harvests light energy for biomedical sensing and stimulation.

Prof. Laura Gagliardi on pivotal moments in US chemistry.

Stuart Rowan will serve as the new leader, while the Founding Faculty Director Shirley Meng will continue leading the Energy Transition Network.

A new study finds that storing cold water used to cool data centers underground could increase IT power capacity by 9.8 percent across three U.S. markets, with gains as high as 11 percent in Arizona's hot, dry climate.

Event is first documented to involve four major tectonic plates, finds UChicago scientist Sunyoung Park.

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east.

Research led by Assoc. Prof. Pedram Hassanzadeh. Watch the CBS news segment.

"Relatively modest research investments would keep open the option of extending life beyond Earth as Mars’ scientific exploration continues." Interview with Assoc. Prof. Edwin Kite.

In this episode of the Resources Radio podcast, host Kristin Hayes invites Liz Moyer to break down the history of US energy use in commemoration of the country’s 250th year of independence. 

The R&D effort focuses on exploring the utilization of a streaming link between the custom Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based hardware boards planned to be used during HL-LHC, and a high-performance GPU-enabled processing farm. With this architecture, the R&D effort led by CERN Openlab, University of Chicago, and UCL scientists will allow the real-time analysis of the full data stream by deploying powerful models like Convolutional Auto-Encoders (CAEs), temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (TCCN), and transformer-based models, which are planned to be tested with the prototype hardware.

Thirteen members of the University of Chicago faculty, including three from the Physical Sciences Division, have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, effective July 1.

Discovering the physical principles of superconductivity in diamond opens the door for scientists to use it in new quantum technologies
 

Researchers are starting to explore the tools and systems we need to develop to cool down the planet.

The fight over the data that trains artificial intelligence has become one of the defining economic conflicts of the decade.

PSD department chair, director, and deputy dean appointments and reappointments, effective July 1, 2026.