News: Faculty

2025

At UChicago, mentorship drives the ‘front line of discovery’

May 17, 2025

Fourth-year Daniel Babnigg, left, and his mentor, astronomy and astrophysics Prof. Mike Gladders.

Professor Mike Gladders helps transform students from learner to researcher through in-person astrophysical observation and research. 


SRM360 launches to bring clarity and context to sunlight reflection methods

May 17, 2025

Sunlight with white clouds.

SRM360, a new nonprofit initiative co-founded by CSEi research assistant professor Peter Irvine, officially launches to bring clarity and context to the complex world of sunlight reflection methods (SRM).
 


Chemical biologist bridges basic discoveries to treatments for disease

May 17, 2025

Hening Lin, PhD, James and Karen Frank Family Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemistry (standing), with graduate student Jiaqi Zhao (seated).

Hening Lin brings expertise in enzymes to UChicago, where he works with biologists, chemists, engineers, and doctors to translate basic science to clinical applications.
 


Reflections from UPCEA 2025: exploring data science and ethics in higher education

May 10, 2025

A visualization of two of the three stages of ethical inquiry: ethical collection, ethical consumption, and ethical interpretation. Each stage is sequential and a prerequisite for the next round of filtering.

Three MS in Applied Data Science team members led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference regarding the ethical dimensions of data science in higher education.


Weixin Tang wins 2025 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

May 10, 2025

Photo of Weixan Tang on a white background.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang recognized for excellence in chemical biology research and undergraduate education at the University of Chicago.


The next frontier in nuclear physics

May 10, 2025

Photo of researchers monitoring conditions within the ATLAS control room. From left to right:  Sergio Lopez-Caceres, Brahim Mustapha and Daniel Santiago.

Recent advancements at the ATLAS user facility are enhancing operations and efficiency to help unlock new insights into the universe’s fundamental forces.
 


Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers

May 10, 2025

A rendered image of computer chips with multicolored foreground.

Bill Fefferman develops a new use for a quantum algorithm once thought to be useless to protect against quantum computers. 


2025 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division

May 7, 2025

Andrew Campbell

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: Andrew J. Campbell!


Reimagining synthetic strategy with skeletal editing ticks box on chemists’ wish list

May 5, 2025

Hands holding test tube containing orange liquid.

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.


How to talk to your children about money in these uncertain times

May 5, 2025

Coins spilled out of a jar stacked in a growing order.

Rebecca Maxcy of the Financial Education Initiative gives professional advice on how to speak about financial worries with children. 


Our speech is full of melodies that create language-like patterns

May 5, 2025

Open music book with notes indicating melodic lines.

Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech. 


The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google partner on cutting-edge AI and security research

May 5, 2025

3D Render of AI GPU and CPU.

The Data Science Institute and Google are partnering to launch new research to address security, privacy, and digital safety within artificial intelligence. 


DSI and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation invite the next generation to imagine data and AI for good

May 5, 2025

Two panelists speaking at the Tech-for-Good Careers event.

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
 


Nature recognizes He Lab publication as a “Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024”

May 5, 2025

Professor Chuan He posing for a photo.

A publication from the Chuan He lab has been selected as one of Nature Magazine's "Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024."
 


IBM and University of Chicago collaborate to advance quantum computing, including innovations in quantum chemistry

May 5, 2025

Person interacting with green glowing computer hardware.

IBM and the University of Chicago are deepening their partnership to accelerate quantum computing advancements, with significant implications for disciplines like chemistry.