2025
Novel machine learning approaches to facilitate skin cancer detection
May 10, 2025

Team led by UChicago CS PhD student Steven Song evaluated the effectiveness of novel small-scale AI models in identifying non-melanoma skin cancers.
Reflections from UPCEA 2025: exploring data science and ethics in higher education
May 10, 2025

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

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang recognized for excellence in chemical biology research and undergraduate education at the University of Chicago.
From UChicago labs to cancer’s frontier: alumna Ziwan Xu recognized as a rising star
May 10, 2025

Ziwan Xu, an alumna of the Department of Chemistry, is spotlighted in Nature for her innovative research in radiosensitizers and sustained-release drug delivery.
New ceramic material for high-power particle accelerators enhances reliability
May 10, 2025

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.
The next frontier in nuclear physics
May 10, 2025

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

Bill Fefferman develops a new use for a quantum algorithm once thought to be useless to protect against quantum computers.
Dimension 126 contains strangely twisted shapes, mathematicians prove
May 10, 2025

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.
Nation’s largest liquid metal test facility gets key upgrade
May 10, 2025

Argonne National Laboratory swapped out a key component in its liquid metal test loop for a new class of reactors.
Reimagining synthetic strategy with skeletal editing ticks box on chemists’ wish list
May 5, 2025

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.
Our speech is full of melodies that create language-like patterns
May 5, 2025

Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech.
Quantum randomness could create a spoof-proof internet
May 5, 2025

Argonne Laboratory helps develop Quantinuum’s 56-bit trapped-ion computer, which has succeeded in demonstrating randomness in quantum circuits to establish secure, private connections.
The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google partner on cutting-edge AI and security research
May 5, 2025

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

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
How generative artificial intelligence is changing work at a national laboratory
May 5, 2025

New study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations.