News: Faculty

Two young Chinese mathematicians, including associate professor of mathematics Yu Deng, along with an international collaborator, may have solved a century-old problem in fluid mechanics--an area of study that is critical to many engineering fields, including hydraulic systems, the design of dams and bridges, and aerodynamics. [paywall]

UChicago astronomer Jacob Bean is playing a critical role in groundbreaking research of atmospheres on exoplanets.

A UChicago team is creating software to combat AI’s ability to use artists’ work. Computer science professor Ben Zhao sits down with WBEZ Chicago to discuss the project.

The prestigious journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition has featured Chemistry Assistant Professor Anna Wuttig, offering a glimpse into her research, motivations, and personal passions. The profile coincides with the publication of her first article in the journal, "Unlocking Mesoscopic Disorder in Graphitic Carbon with Spectroelectrochemistry," which highlights her groundbreaking work on understanding and manipulating disorder in heterogeneous electrocatalysts for selective electricity-driven synthesis.

A lab at UChicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.

Haselkorn was widely known for his work on plant viral RNA, and was highly regarded for his teaching and mentoring with students.

A new UChicago study from the Department of Computer Science reveals how Netflix’s autoplay feature subtly shapes viewing habits. The research highlights how turning off autoplay resulted in behavioral changes in participants, including reduced viewing time and increased awareness of media consumption.

Chicago’s Adler Planetarium message board hosts conversations between staffers, scholars, and some of the roughly 2.8 million volunteers in Zooniverse, the world’s largest platform for crowdsourced research online. Starting around late 2023, staffers noticed a flurry of uncertainty and discomfort from volunteers centered around machine learning. The Zooniverse team recognized that this discomfort required a larger conversation. A grant from The Kavli Foundation will enable that conversation exploring the ethics of machine learning in citizen science in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP); the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at the University of California, Berkeley; and the National Science Foundation-Simons SkAI Institute.

In a new research project, UChicago Prof. Nicolas Dauphas and a team of scientists used rocks gathered during the Apollo missions to learn more about the Moon's origins.
 

In a new article, Geophysical Science's Prof. David Jablonski comments on how life on Earth would transform following a mass extinction. 

UChicago Prof. Rebecca Willett and Prof. Henry Hoffmann co-author a new article discussing the impact of the recent and upcoming cuts to federal research and how they threaten U.S. AI leadership. 

Pedram Hassanzadeh is an associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics. He is also the Faculty Director of the AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative and Codirector of the Human-centered Weather Forecasting Initiative. He works on improving the fundamental understanding of the multiscale, nonlinear physics of extreme weather events and developing new tools for predicting the variability of these events across time scales, from days to decades.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63, former UChicago Physics professor and chair, is remembered as a pioneer of solar energy.

Congratulations to Clay Córdova, Assistant Professor of Physics, who has received the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) from the International Congress of Basic Sciences for his work on theoretical particle physics and new symmetries in nature.

UChicago scientists study samples from Apollo missions, revealing new details about lunar history.