News: Students

2025

Chicago State University’s quantum education programs help local students ‘imagine themselves working in the field’

July 16, 2025

Dr. Lucinda Boyd explains how to work an atomic force microscope (AFM) at the Quantum Sensing Summer Program at Chicago State University.

One program, Quantum Sensing Summer Program with NSF QuBBE, offers Chicago high schoolers two weeks of lab immersion.


Bridging theoretical and applied: UChicago master’s in financial math, finance and management

July 16, 2025

Students in the MS in Financial Mathermatics program benefit from a curriculum that blends advanced mathematics, statistics and computing—all applied to financial markets. Courses are taught by renowned faculty from across UChicago and by practicitioner

Career-focused programs teach cutting-edge skills while supporting students at UChicago and beyond.


Hank Snowdon took a swing at data science and landed in the MLB

July 16, 2025

The MS-ADS program took a group of students to the White Sox Game on May 9th, 2025.

Hank Snowdon joined the Seattle Mariners with a lifelong love of baseball and a powerful new data science skill set. He’s now helping shape player decisions in one of Major League Baseball’s front offices.


Hackathon unites United Airlines and MS in Applied Data Science students to tackle aviation with AI

July 16, 2025

Team Mosaic takes 1st place at the “Agents in the Sky” hackathon. Pictured: Dev Patel, Daniel Sa, and Ish Ramesh. Not pictured: Ariel Azria, Yijin Bao, and Linda Ji.

Students built an AI-powered dashboard that could help airlines anticipate spikes in passenger demand. 


Four UChicago College students earn 2025 Goldwater Scholarships

July 10, 2025

Photo of Melody Tang.

Excellence in research leads chemistry major Melody Tang to the prestigious award.


ESO 280-SC06 is a tidally disrupted globular cluster that has lost almost all its mass, observations reveal

July 10, 2025

Graphs that showcase the normalized spectra of the ESO 280-SC06 stars.

A team led by Astro grad student Samantha Usman used the Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to discover that the cluster has lost 95% of its initial mass due to tidal disruptions. 


CPS students graduate from Fermilab Quantum Science program

July 3, 2025

Forty Chicago Public School students celebrate and stand for a group photo with Fermilab Interim Director Young-Kee Kim and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, center, during the graduation ceremony for the inaugural Saturday Morning Quantum program hosted by

Fermilab hosted its first quantum science education outreach program for Chicago high school students. The classes were taught by quantum scientists and subject matter experts to inspire the next generation of quantum researchers.


University of Chicago PhD graduates secure tenure-track faculty positions amid a competitive job market

July 3, 2025

A photo containing the images of Fan Yao, Jibang Wu, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jas Brooks, Alex Hoover, Shawn Shan, Zhuolin Yang, Yunong Shi, and Shinan Liu.

UChicago CS celebrates a standout year as graduates secure faculty positions at top global institutions, defying one of the most competitive academic job markets in recent memory.


Chemistry students partner with artist to recreate pigment patented by George Washington Carver

July 3, 2025

University of Chicago graduate student Amanda Brewer pours acid into an iron-rich solution to create a blue hue.

UChicago students and artist Amanda Williams revive 100-year-old recipe for a startling blue color.


Five DSI scholars set to continue in academia

June 28, 2025

Combined photo showing Yuetian Luo, Julia Mendelsohn, Yo Joong

Congratulations to concluding postdocs Julia Mendelsohn, Vasilis Charisopoulos, YJ Choe, and Yuetian Luo, and preceptor Susanna Lange.


The DSI welcomes summer students to explore the world of research

June 28, 2025

Dan Nicolae, Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute and Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, Medicine, and the College Section of Genetic Medicine, presents at th

The Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience and Summer Lab programs kick off this week.


Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life

June 28, 2025

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this tiny piece of rock may offer insights into the minerals and or

UChicago PhD candidate Yuke Zheng leads research on a 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock that could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.


Tiny fragment of asteroid giving Field Museum scientists a glimpse 4.6 billion years into the past

June 16, 2025

Photo of an asteroid in space.

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists the chance to study an asteroid sample uncontaminated by Earth's atmosphere.


Trump’s crackdown on foreign student visas could derail critical AI research

June 16, 2025

Photo of a visa with various markings and stamps.

Rebecca Willett comments on the crackdown of student visas. The US says it will “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas and has paused interviews for all student visa applicants. Experts warn the moves could weaken American leadership in STEM.
 


PSD recognizes three students with a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2025-26

June 16, 2025

Top left, clockwise: Zhe Cheng, Wenxin Ding, Carlos Servan

The Physical Sciences Division has selected three graduate students to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year.