News: Students

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.

Introducing the next generation of international, interdisciplinary researchers to AI-enabled scientific discovery.

At the Summer 2025 Master’s in Applied Data Science Capstone Showcase, 18 teams tackled real-world problems with advanced data science, with winning projects in energy, healthcare, and agriculture.

UChicago alum John Paparrizos won the SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award for his k-Shape algorithm, advancing time series data analysis across fields like healthcare and finance.

The monthly series bridges research and practical applications between industry, community, academia, and the public sector.

University of Chicago’s Prophet Arena pits AI models against live prediction markets. Early results suggest machines can match, and sometimes beat, the wisdom of crowds.

New study reveals how magnetic fields shape Sagittarius C, fueling star birth and cosmic filaments in the Milky Way’s heart.