News: 2025

Edwin Kite discusses a model built using data from the Curiosity rover, which suggests wet periods were rare on Mars. 

Edwin Kite discusses how a new clue may provide not only a part of the answer to Mars's condition, but indicates that Mars may have been doomed to its current fate from the beginning.

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll fundamentally change how molecules are made.

Prof. Hening Lin brings expertise in enzymes to UChicago, bridging scientists, engineers and doctors to translate research to clinical applications.

A new study led by Associate Professor Chenhao Tan analyzes hundreds of thousands of emergency room notes, uncovering how language patterns reveal physician fatigue and warning of potential pitfalls as AI-generated text enters clinical care.

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.

The conference drew over 250 researchers for two days of expert talks, poster sessions, and cross-institutional collaboration.

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

Data scientists from Parliament Data return to campus to share insights into client services for social impact.

The lab hosts ribbon-cutting ceremony for one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Earlier this week, the University of Chicago hosted the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a three-day event that gathered the world’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Learn more from the multiple articles and videos covering the event.

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

The multidisciplinary Center develops materials with practical applications, like methane capture, water harvesting and CO2 conversion. The Center is led by Laura Gagliardi, the Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry.

UChicago researchers have developed a new liquid biopsy test that uses RNA modifications to detect early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy.

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was likely harsh desert for most of the recent past.