News: Research

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.

Research shows financial literacy boosts economic opportunity. The success of the University of Chicago’s FinEDge program shows it should be expanded.

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

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.
 

Team led by UChicago CS PhD student Steven Song evaluated the effectiveness of novel small-scale AI models in identifying non-melanoma skin cancers.

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.

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

Ziwan Xu, an alumna of the Department of Chemistry, is spotlighted in Nature for her innovative research in radiosensitizers and sustained-release drug delivery.

In a multi-year project led by engineers and scientists at Fermilab’s Illinois Accelerator Research Center, Fermilab worked with Euclid Techlabs to test a new, slightly conductive ceramic for use in a key accelerator component called a radio frequency window.
 

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

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

Two previous students of Professor Peter May, Weinan Lin, PhD'21, and Zhouli Xu, PhD'17, worked on a new proof representing the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.

Argonne National Laboratory swapped out a key component in its liquid metal test loop for a new class of reactors.