News: Students

2025

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

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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.


Hackathon unites United Airlines and MS in Applied Data Science students to tackle aviation with AI

July 16, 2025

Team Mosaic takes 1st place at the “Agents in the Sky” hackathon. Pictured: Dev Patel, Daniel Sa, and Ish Ramesh. Not pictured: Ariel Azria, Yijin Bao, and Linda Ji.

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

Photo of Melody Tang.

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

Graphs that showcase the normalized spectra of the ESO 280-SC06 stars.

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

Forty Chicago Public School students celebrate and stand for a group photo with Fermilab Interim Director Young-Kee Kim and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, center, during the graduation ceremony for the inaugural Saturday Morning Quantum program hosted by

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

A photo containing the images of Fan Yao, Jibang Wu, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jas Brooks, Alex Hoover, Shawn Shan, Zhuolin Yang, Yunong Shi, and Shinan Liu.

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

University of Chicago graduate student Amanda Brewer pours acid into an iron-rich solution to create a blue hue.

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

Combined photo showing Yuetian Luo, Julia Mendelsohn, Yo Joong

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