News: Faculty

UChicago geophysical scientists suggest that the way Earth’s “thermostat” works may have changed during the Pangea era.

Golden Goose Award winner Sid Nagel is featured in a documentary.

Watch John Anderson's in-studio demonstrations.

A Vietnamese mathematician and his German colleague have helped resolve a 55-year-old mathematical conjecture, using randomness and techniques inspired by juggling to tackle the problem.

New simulations trace the Milky Way back to a turbulent network of thousands of small galaxies in the early universe.

Pham Tuan Huy, a young Vietnamese mathematician, and his colleagues have solved a problem that has existed in the mathematical community for nearly 50 years.

A new supercomputer simulation traces how thousands of small galaxies eventually became the Milky Way.

Astrophysicist leads launch of NASA balloon to detect high-energy particles from the cosmos

Join DSI for the 2026-27 Distinguished Speaker Series!

Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, and accurate, fast and efficient AI weather forecasts could help lessen their impact.

UChicago computer science Prof. Andrew A. Chien, former vice president of research at Intel, answers questions about AI, sustainability and water.

Congratulations to Pedro Lopes, who received an Academic Communicators Network Excellence Award for Digital Communications.

Remembered for innovative curiosity, leadership, and contagious enthusiasm.

MSCAPP students Sinan Grehan and Wendy Wang spent the summer at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago using data, econometrics, and environmental research to investigate policy questions that range from wetlands regulation to the hidden costs of climate change.

Most complex rendering of its kind provides insight into early days of our home galaxy.