2025
UChicago to host Nobel laureates, other experts for event on preventing nuclear war
July 1, 2025

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, 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

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 ‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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, 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

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 has been reappointed as Director of the Enrico Fermi Institute effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028.
A massive endeavor
June 23, 2025

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