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The Youth Internship Program, a Chicago Youth Works partner, is one of a broad suite of free academic, scientific, and creative initiatives UChicago offers Chicago high school students each summer, offering structured exposure to prospective career pathways across STEM, healthcare, and the arts, while also preparing local youth for college.

When Aaron Garay decided to return to graduate school, he wasn’t looking for an escape from his career; he was looking for a way to expand it.

This summer, 48 undergraduate and high school scholars participated in the UChicago Data Science Institute’s Summer Research Programs — the first cohort hosted in the DSI’s new home, the Lorraine and Yuji Suzuki Center.

The University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science program celebrated the culminating work of its graduating students at the Summer 2026 Capstone Showcase on August 15th.

New nine-month program prepares technically experienced students to move beyond AI fundamentals and build, deploy, and lead with emerging technologies.

NASA’s latest offering to the stars comes from a legacy of great observatories that enabled decades of discovery and unearthed new mysteries about the universe.

The National Science Foundation is investing over $290 million into eight university-based research institutes as part of its Quantum Leap Challenge program.

Better understanding how a common channel opens and closes may help scientists build better medicines.

When a problem is so complex that solving it requires expertise from academia, industry, government and national laboratories, it becomes a grand challenge.

Please welcome the faculty joining the Physical Sciences Division in the ’26–27 academic year.

The new approach, backed by experimental evidence from an interdisciplinary team at UChicago, including chemical biologist Hening Lin, identified central disease-driving genes, most not previously linked to asthma.

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider sends protons crashing together at extraordinary speeds, allowing scientists to study the fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces that shape the universe. Those collisions help researchers investigate questions ranging from the behavior of subatomic particles to the possibility of new physics beyond what is currently known.

In a project selected for funding by the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and partners from other national laboratories, universities and industry will apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable precise and adaptive resonance control in particle accelerators. Their work aims to lower operating costs by millions of dollars each year and improve accelerator performance, driving scientific discovery.

Research outlines a new workflow for design and manufacturing, illustrated by two new methane-fighting materials.

On this day, Aug. 20, 1909, scientists with the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory accidentally came across the planet Pluto for the first time.