News: 2025

DUNE studies matter-antimatter asymmetry using precision detectors built with expert skill, clever machines, and extreme attention to detail.

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.

Researchers lead by Bozhi Tian develops a new device called the Airborne Biomarker Localization Engine (ABLE). ABLE detects both non-volatile and volatile molecules in air in around 15 minutes.

Peter Littlewood, Professor in the Department of Physics, the James Franck Institute, and the Neuroscience Institute, will continue as Chair of the Department of Physics through June 30, 2026. Effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, David Schmitz, Professor in the Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, will be appointed Chair.

Fred Ciesla, Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the Enrico Fermi Institute, has been appointed as Chair of the Department of the Geophysical Sciences effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028.

Peter Eng, Research Professor, has been reappointed as Executive Director of CARS effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028.

Ed Blucher has been reappointed as Director of the Enrico Fermi Institute effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028.

UChicago physicist Karri DiPetrillo is on a mission to bring a muon collider to fruition.

Abby Vieregg, David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, has been reappointed in this role effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028.

John Carlstrom, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor, has been appointed as chair of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028.

His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his attention to the Holocaust.

The California People and Pesticides Explorer equips citizens with visibility into pesticide use and its effects.

This year’s Clinic teams used data science and AI to solve problems for their clients, from the UChicago Library to a global renewable energy provider.
 

Argonne plays a leading role at 2025 American Nuclear Society Meeting, where international experts will gather to address how nuclear energy can be expanded to meet growing global needs.