News: Faculty

Learning experiences at Argonne National Laboratory fuel the ambitions of future leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Argonne researchers put ​“vibe coding” tools to the test in scientific workflows.

Recognized with a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Ranya Sharma’s work explores how network security and Internet infrastructure shape real-world experiences of privacy, performance, and access.

Floods, storms, and extreme temperatures kill many people around the world each year. But the deadliness of these climate hazards changes as the climate warms, populations grow or move, and societies invest, or fail to invest, in infrastructure and emergency response.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds and now sits at 85 seconds to midnight—citing expiring nuclear treaties, climate change, and AI and disinformation as among the major threats which have worsened in the past year.

Atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere.

Professor Giulia Galli of the Chemistry Department has shown that nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds can be used to improve certain quantum properties of qubits. 

David Keith believes geoengineering deserves serious consideration as a tool to combat climate change.

Questions for the cosmologist and former dean of the Physical Sciences Division, Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb.

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

UChicago chemists gain insight into how a Parkinson’s-associated protein binds to membranes in the brain.

Researchers at the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) used the South Pole Telescope to probe one of the most complex regions of the sky.

UChicago biophysicists probe the mechanics of extremely thin films.

UChicago professor emeritus helped transform modern astronomy, mapped interstellar medium.

Congratulations to Carlos Kenig, who has won a King Faisal Prize for helping to revolutionize the understanding of nonlinear partial differential equations.