News: Students

2025

Diamond biosensors detect 49 biomolecules for faster diagnostics

August 29, 2025

Chemical chain of elements.

UChicago team develops diamond biosensor detecting 49 biomolecules at once, paving the way for faster, scalable medical diagnostics.


MS in Applied Data Science students put data science skills to work over the summer

August 25, 2025

Combined photo of Sakshi Bokil, Vincent Chirio, Zeel Patel, and Joshua Wang.

Fortune 500 companies and federal space agencies allow students in the Master's in Applied Data Science to use classroom knowledge to create real-world impact.


PhD alumni Ahmed Bou-Rabee featured in Quanta Magazine

August 25, 2025

Picture of Ahmed Bou-Rabee.

Ahmed Bou-Rabee's superdiffusion research, featured in Quanta Magazine, proves a 1980s prediction using new methods in stochastic homogenization, with co-authors Scott Armstrong and Tuomo Kuusi.


Unlocking the secrets of our Galaxy’s heart using magnetic fields

August 14, 2025

The dust in the Milky Way, shown in darker and redder colours, are regions where new star formation is taking place. These dusty regions are correlated with the magnetic fields present in our galaxy, and the background light gets polarised in a measurable

PhD student Roy Zhao's research on a region called Sagittarius C discovers that magnetic field in the area wraps around an expanding bubble of hot, electrified gas blown outward by the winds from a cluster of massive young stars.


My little slime

August 14, 2025

A Petri dish with Physarum polycephalum, or slime mold. Computer science researcher Jasmine Lu used the slime mold as a “living wire” in a smartwatch at the University of Chicago.

PhD student Jasmine Lu incorporates slime mold into her devices due to its unique ability to conduct electricity. 


Ten years of MSCAPP: where public policy meets coding

August 9, 2025

Combined photo of Anne Rogers, Associate Professor of Computer Science,  Mitsue Iwata, MSCAPP’16, Nora Hajjar, MSCAPP’20, and Mario Moreno Zepeda, MSCAPP’19.

UChicago’s MSCAPP blends public policy and computer science, empowering graduates to impact diverse fields with data-driven solutions for a better future.


Fermilab partners with community colleges to develop technical talent

August 9, 2025

KeAndre Worthy, left, is an electronics technician in Fermilab’s Booster Accelerator Group, and Susanna Stevenson is a high-level radiofrequency engineer at Fermilab.

Fermilab is forging innovative partnerships with community colleges to develop the next generation of technical talent. Through hands-on internships and collaborative curriculum development, students are gaining access to real-world experiences that launch meaningful careers in science and engineering.


Congratulations to outgoing Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows

August 9, 2025

Collective photo of the fellows Yihang Wang, Madeleine Torcasso, Colm Talbot, Shailaja Seetharanman, Ludwig Schneider, Aditya Nandy, Peter Lu, and Thomas Callister.

Eight members of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows head on to new roles across academia and industry.


Engineering the summer: From exploring life’s origins to saving lives

August 9, 2025

School of Molecular Engineering Dean Emeritus Matthew Tirrell and UChicago Chemistry Prof. Jack Szostak, is spending his summer researching how to save lives as an intern for the life sciences company Bruker in Bremen, Germany.

Jack Szostak's laboratory is featured in an annual series following students' summer internships and career experiences. 


Galactic Rosetta Stone

July 29, 2025

Sagittarius C

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


PhD candidate Bogdan Stoica receives distinguished artifact evaluator award for championing reproducibility in computer science

July 28, 2025

PhD candidate, Bogdan Alexandru Stoica.

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.


UChicago MS-ADS students present capstone project at Midwest ml Symposium

July 28, 2025

Nathan Rickert and Kwaku Ofori-Atta at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium presenting their poster.

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


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.