News: Faculty

2025

Ten years of MSCAPP: where public policy meets coding

August 9, 2025

Combined photo of Anne Rogers, Associate Professor of Computer Science,  Mitsue Iwata, MSCAPP’16, Nora Hajjar, MSCAPP’20, and Mario Moreno Zepeda, MSCAPP’19.

UChicago’s MSCAPP blends public policy and computer science, empowering graduates to impact diverse fields with data-driven solutions for a better future.


Moderation at the crossroads: how generative AI platforms manage creativity and content safety

August 9, 2025

Lead phd student, Lan Gao.

A new study from Computer Science researchers explores how content moderation policies in generative AI tools both protect and sometimes hinder users—offering insights on the path to safer, more creative, and user-friendly platforms.


Engineering the summer: From exploring life’s origins to saving lives

August 9, 2025

School of Molecular Engineering Dean Emeritus Matthew Tirrell and UChicago Chemistry Prof. Jack Szostak, is spending his summer researching how to save lives as an intern for the life sciences company Bruker in Bremen, Germany.

Jack Szostak's laboratory is featured in an annual series following students' summer internships and career experiences. 


NSF invests over $74 million in 6 mathematical sciences research institutes

August 4, 2025

IMSI logo

From improving medical care to detecting planets in other solar systems, the institutes, including the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, will explore mathematical sciences with a broad range of applications. 


‘Aurora,’ New super computer at Argonne National Lab to help solve science’s biggest problems

July 28, 2025

A depiction of a computer in place of a super computer.

UChicago President Paul Alivisatos and Argonne Laboratory Director Paul Kearns discuss the impact of the new supercomputer that will run 24/7, capable of performing a quintillion calculations per second.


2014 Nobel Prize idea used to reach Super-resolution imaging, turning noise into data

July 28, 2025

When analyzed with a grating, the amplified Raman signals provide extremely high-resolution spectra that surpass traditional instrumental limits by employing super-resolution correlation methods.

Linda Young reveals a new method that turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. 


The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory

July 28, 2025

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore.

Vladimir Drinfeld and Alexander Beilinson contribute to a major advance in the mathematical field, taking another step to creating a grand and unified theory. 


A new Martian climate model suggest a mostly cold, harsh environment

July 28, 2025

A picture of carbonate rocks taken by the Spirit rover.

Edwin Kite discusses a model built using data from the Curiosity rover, which suggests wet periods were rare on Mars. 


A dead Mars may have been inevitable – and the sun is to blame

July 28, 2025

Mt Sharp on Mars as seen by Curiosity.

Edwin Kite discusses how a new clue may provide not only a part of the answer to Mars's condition, but indicates that Mars may have been doomed to its current fate from the beginning.


Skeletal editing: How close are we to true cut-and-paste chemistry?

July 28, 2025

Human-like drawings interacting with balls that are colored.

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll fundamentally change how molecules are made.


Chemical biologist links basic discoveries to treatments for disease

July 28, 2025

UChicago Prof. Hening Lin, standing, in the lab with graduate student Jiaqi Zhao. Lin is a chemical biologist whose work bridges multiple disciplines with the common goal of linking basic research to real clinical applications.

Prof. Hening Lin brings expertise in enzymes to UChicago, bridging scientists, engineers and doctors to translate research to clinical applications.


2025 Midwest machine learning Symposium demonstrates Regional Excellence

July 28, 2025

Individuals at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium talking to one another.

The conference drew over 250 researchers for two days of expert talks, poster sessions, and cross-institutional collaboration.


Nobel laureates and nuclear experts gather at University of Chicago on Trinity anniversary

July 21, 2025

Two Nobel laureates involved in organizing the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Brian Schmidt (left) and David Gross.

Earlier this week, the University of Chicago hosted the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a three-day event that gathered the world’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Learn more from the multiple articles and videos covering the event.


Innovative liquid biopsy test uses RNA to detect early-stage cancer

July 16, 2025

Three red vials with a magnifying glass held up to them to reveal the cells located within the vials.

UChicago researchers have developed a new liquid biopsy test that uses RNA modifications to detect early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy.


Was Mars doomed to be a desert? Study proposes new explanation

July 16, 2025

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this photo as it ascended the Martian mountain Mt. Sharp. A study proposes a new explanation for why Mars is a barren desert today, despite having many similarities to Earth.

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was likely harsh desert for most of the recent past.