2025
Chicago State University’s quantum education programs help local students ‘imagine themselves working in the field’
July 16, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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