News: Faculty

In a Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning interview, Fausto Cattaneo and Julia Brazas discuss the challenges of teaching courses that require prior understanding of concepts.

In a Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning interview, Nick Feamster discusses how he integrates and encourages AI use in his courses.

Third-year PhD student Lan Gao studies how social platforms govern a changing online ecosystem.

UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively.

Eight new projects led by University of Chicago faculty and researchers will deepen understanding of climate interventions and their potential tradeoffs.

Congratulations to Vincenzo Vitelli and Carlos E.M. Wagner, who were named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their distinguished contributions to the sciences. 

From the viability of waterless life to how researchers should handle cosmic emergencies, astronomer Wendy Freedman weighs in on the new sci-fi film.
 

Researchers, including members of the University of Chicago, find the lowest abundance of iron in any ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, reshaping our understanding of cosmic chemistry. 

Andrew Chien, director of the Center for Unstoppable Computing at the University of Chicago, warns the rapid boom of data centers is slowing the decarbonization of the power grid.

At the University of Chicago’s Existential Risk Laboratory, researchers study how emerging technologies like AI could amplify global threats such as nuclear war.
 

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t.

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.
 

A team of scientists says it's possible to use tiny ripples in space and time, or gravitational waves, to measure the rate at which our universe is expanding. This could solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics today, a disparity in calculating this rate known as the "Hubble tension."

Scott Dodelson discusses his experience entering into the field of physics. 

A proposed five-satellite Cosmic Positioning System could measure cosmic distances directly and help address discrepancies in the Hubble constant through solar system–scale triangulation.