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2025

UChicago to host Nobel laureates, other experts for event on preventing nuclear war

July 1, 2025

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July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war.


Dan Nicolae, Interim Chair of the Department of Statistics

July 1, 2025

Dan Nicolae

Dan Nicolae, Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute and the Committee on Data Science, is appointed as Interim Chair of the Department of Statistics from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.


What to read and watch over summer 2025

June 28, 2025

Photo of a man reading a book on a couch inside of a dark room.

Bryan Dickinson and other UChicago teaching award winners share their reading and watch selections for summer 2025.


Democratizing digital graphics: An undergrad’s unlikely path to putting agency of 3D-generation in users’ hands

June 28, 2025

Hyunwoo (Brian) Kim.

Hyunwoo (Brian) Kim ‘25, a recent grad of UChicago, creates MeshUp to improve user agency and control over 3D-generated graphics.


Five DSI scholars set to continue in academia

June 28, 2025

Combined photo showing Yuetian Luo, Julia Mendelsohn, Yo Joong

Congratulations to concluding postdocs Julia Mendelsohn, Vasilis Charisopoulos, YJ Choe, and Yuetian Luo, and preceptor Susanna Lange.


Giulia Galli wins Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize

June 28, 2025

UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering Giulia Galli, shown delivering a plenary address in 2019 on the occasion of the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire’s (CECAM) 50th anniversa

The global award, given once every three years, recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of microscopic simulation of matter. 


Precision and ingenuity drive construction of DUNE detector components

June 28, 2025

This illustration shows a view looking longways down the FD-HD detector; APAs at the sides and center, separated by cathode planes.

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


The DSI welcomes summer students to explore the world of research

June 28, 2025

Dan Nicolae, Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute and Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, Medicine, and the College Section of Genetic Medicine, presents at th

The Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience and Summer Lab programs kick off this week.


Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life

June 28, 2025

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this tiny piece of rock may offer insights into the minerals and or

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.


Handheld device captures airborne signs of disease

June 28, 2025

Structured surface The scientists designed a surface with microscopic silicon spikes that help droplets form inside the device to be read. Each of the spikes (shown above in an electron microscope image) is about 1/200th the width of a human hair.

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, Chair of the Department of Physics

June 26, 2025

Peter Littlewood

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, Chair of the Department of the Geophysical Sciences

June 26, 2025

Fred Ciesla

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, Executive Director of CARS

June 25, 2025

Argonne

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


Ed Blucher, Director of the Enrico Fermi Institute

June 24, 2025

Ed Blucher

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


A massive endeavor

June 23, 2025

visualization of a muon-producing collision

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