News: Faculty

Bozhi Tian explains in a CBS video the new medical device "ABLE" and how it can find medical answers through particles in the air. 

Watch a dynamic panel discussion featuring leading Computer Science faculty—Michael Franklin, Becca Willett, Ben Zhao, and Ce Zhang—moderated by WIRED’s Kate Knibbs. This recorded conversation explores the future of AI, its societal impact, and pressing ethical issues like privacy, bias, and fairness.

New UChicago institute joins a $90 million nationwide network advancing fundamental inquiry and collaboration in physics.

Annual event invites students from across departments to apply machine learning methods to advance scientific discovery.
 

This year, ten PSD instructors and students have been honored for excellence in teaching the next generation of scientists.

Congratulations to Professor of Computer Science David Cash and Professor of Chemistry Bryan Dickinson! In recognition of their incredible teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, Cash received a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award, and Dickinson was awarded a PhD Teaching and Mentoring Award.

An internationally renowned theoretical physicist, Vitelli was recognized for his defining contributions to the fields of statistical physics, soft matter, and active matter.

Congratulations to Mark Levin! Each investigator, recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics, will receive up to $2 million over five years.

Many scientists contributed to the final result, but UChicago alumnus Richard Garwin was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most powerful weapon. He went on to advise a dozen presidents.

The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight.

In this episode of Big Brains, astrophysicist Jacob Bean studies atmospheres of distant worlds to identify habitable exoplanets.
 

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

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).
 

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

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.