2025
2025 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division
May 7, 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: Andrew J. Campbell!
Reimagining synthetic strategy with skeletal editing ticks box on chemists’ wish list
May 5, 2025

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.
How to talk to your children about money in these uncertain times
May 5, 2025

Rebecca Maxcy of the Financial Education Initiative gives professional advice on how to speak about financial worries with children.
Our speech is full of melodies that create language-like patterns
May 5, 2025

Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech.
Quantum randomness could create a spoof-proof internet
May 5, 2025

Argonne Laboratory helps develop Quantinuum’s 56-bit trapped-ion computer, which has succeeded in demonstrating randomness in quantum circuits to establish secure, private connections.
Spring at Fermilab welcomes the arrival of two baby bison
May 5, 2025

Fermilab welcomed two baby bison last month, marking the start of calving season at the Department of Energy’s particle physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. With 23 cows and two bulls in the herd, visitors can witness these iconic animals in their natural habitat, either in person or via the Fermilab bison camera.
The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google partner on cutting-edge AI and security research
May 5, 2025

The Data Science Institute and Google are partnering to launch new research to address security, privacy, and digital safety within artificial intelligence.
DSI and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation invite the next generation to imagine data and AI for good
May 5, 2025

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
How generative artificial intelligence is changing work at a national laboratory
May 5, 2025

New study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations.
Nature recognizes He Lab publication as a “Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024”
May 5, 2025

A publication from the Chuan He lab has been selected as one of Nature Magazine's "Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024."
IBM and University of Chicago collaborate to advance quantum computing, including innovations in quantum chemistry
May 5, 2025

IBM and the University of Chicago are deepening their partnership to accelerate quantum computing advancements, with significant implications for disciplines like chemistry.
Light-activated nanostructures boost cellular defense
May 5, 2025

A novel bioelectronic approach by the Bozhi Tian Group uses nanocatalysts to pre-condition cells against stress.
Quantum materials, built by AI robot
May 5, 2025

Interdisciplinary UChicago research will use machine learning to create delicate, complicated quantum materials.
The University of Chicago hosts the first Great Lakes graphics workshop
May 5, 2025

Researchers and enthusiasts from the Great Lakes region gathered at the University of Chicago for a day of engaging talks, networking, and collaboration in the inaugural Great Lakes Graphics Workshop organized by the 3DL Lab.
Donald G. York will receive 2025 Norman Maclean Faculty Award
May 1, 2025

Congratulations to Don York, PhD’71, the Horace B. Horton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics! The Norman Maclean Faculty Award recognizes UChicago scholars’ contributions to teaching and student life.