News: 2025

UChicago Library and DSI collaborate to preserve data and access to information in a response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites. 
 

Team led by UChicago CS PhD student Steven Song evaluated the effectiveness of novel small-scale AI models in identifying non-melanoma skin cancers.

Three MS in Applied Data Science team members led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference regarding the ethical dimensions of data science in higher education.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang recognized for excellence in chemical biology research and undergraduate education at the University of Chicago.

Nobel laureate and Chemistry alum Moungi Bawendi returns to celebrate quantum dots.

Ziwan Xu, an alumna of the Department of Chemistry, is spotlighted in Nature for her innovative research in radiosensitizers and sustained-release drug delivery.

Watch UChicago alum and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper deliver the Bloch Lecture, discussing how he led a team to build AlphaFold—an AI-based model with enormous impact on protein structure prediction.

In a multi-year project led by engineers and scientists at Fermilab’s Illinois Accelerator Research Center, Fermilab worked with Euclid Techlabs to test a new, slightly conductive ceramic for use in a key accelerator component called a radio frequency window.
 

Recent advancements at the ATLAS user facility are enhancing operations and efficiency to help unlock new insights into the universe’s fundamental forces.
 

Bill Fefferman develops a new use for a quantum algorithm once thought to be useless to protect against quantum computers. 

Two previous students of Professor Peter May, Weinan Lin, PhD'21, and Zhouli Xu, PhD'17, worked on a new proof representing the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.

Argonne National Laboratory swapped out a key component in its liquid metal test loop for a new class of reactors. 
 

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: Andrew J. Campbell!

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.

Rebecca Maxcy of the Financial Education Initiative gives professional advice on how to speak about financial worries with children.