News: Students

Study measuring magnetic field near the center of the Milky Way helps to decode the precise astrophysical dynamics at the heart of our galaxy.
 

Final year PhD candidate Bodgan Alexandru Stoica, advised by Professor Shan Lu, is honored with the Distinguished Artifact Evaluator award for his contributions to the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) at Eurosys 2025.

Ariel Azria, Kwaku Ofori-Atta, and Nathan Rickert were selected to share their capstone project, FinWise.AI, during the poster session.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.