News: Faculty

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize: Andrew J. Campbell!

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.

Rebecca Maxcy of the Financial Education Initiative gives professional advice on how to speak about financial worries with children. 

Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech. 

The Data Science Institute and Google are partnering to launch new research to address security, privacy, and digital safety within artificial intelligence. 

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
 

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 the University of Chicago are deepening their partnership to accelerate quantum computing advancements, with significant implications for disciplines like chemistry.

A novel bioelectronic approach by the Bozhi Tian Group uses nanocatalysts to pre-condition cells against stress.

Interdisciplinary UChicago research will use machine learning to create delicate, complicated quantum materials.

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.
 

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.

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Calegari’s research is in the area of algebraic number theory. He is particularly interested in the Langlands program, a set of mathematical ideas that has been called the "grand unified theory of mathematics.”

Professor Heinrich Jaeger contributes to the creation of thin, flexible sheets of self-assembled nanoparticles of magnetite that can be lifted and bent using an external magnetic field.

Physics postdoc Anthony Badea leads research on the creation of quark-gluon plasma believed to have filled the universe in the microseconds after the Big Bang.