News: Students

Research internships at national laboratories provide hands-on experiences and mentorship.

New research from Chenhao Tan reveals why even state-of-the-art AI stumbles on 4-digit multiplication—and what it takes to fix it.

Zeel Patel, a student of Masters in Applied Data Science at University of Chicago, shares how every internship and hands-on experience in her university years is helping her grow — both personally and professionally. 

Hands-on, shape-aware generative authoring for swarm user interfaces wins best demo at UIST 2025.

New research shows that galvanic vestibular stimulation can help people relearn balance after injury or neurological conditions by tapping directly into the brain’s sense of orientation and movement.

The Origins Federation Conference united scientists across disciplines in the search for how life emerged and evolved.

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics program connects students from Chicago Public Schools with UChicago astronomers and physicists.

The festival’s 110 hands-on activities let kids play with lasers, make robots dance, synthesize gloopy slime worms, compare animal skulls, practice CPR and see their world under powerful microscopes. 

The Hyde Park Herald covers the fourth annual South Side Science Festival.

At this year’s ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)—one of the global hubs for breakthroughs in how people and machines connect—the University of Chicago’s Department of Computer Science stands out through a spectrum of ambitious research.

Students and faculty, including those from the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth, share global experiences from collecting algae to building life-saving machines.

In the Quantum Concepts series, Argonne brings key quantum ideas to life by imagining how a familiar object—the apple that inspired Isaac Newton—might act in the quantum world.

As the new school is set to begin, students will notice a change in the Searle Chemistry Laboratory Building. The main hallways of the Chemistry Department have a vibrant new look, blending the calming presence of nature with the clean lines of Mid-Century Modern style. 

The University of Chicago’s Department of Chemistry is launching a new Master of Science in Chemistry program to prepare students for careers in the sciences and to strengthen their applications for PhD, MD, or JD programs.

Hilman Hanivan, Sophia Henn, Jonathan Liu, Raghav Mehrotra, and Yudai Tanaka were selected to the prestigious program’s Class of 2026.