News: Faculty

Congratulations to Alexandra Worden, professor of Geophysical Sciences and senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, who has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She joins a group of distinguished artists, scientists, and scholars in the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows honored for “prior career achievement and exceptional promise.”

Prof Ben Zhao says it'll be a 'dark world' if AI slop proliferates.
 

What they might be looking for might surprise you, said Professor Derek Buzasi, an astronomer at the University of Chicago. His segment begins at 0:50.

Profile features Julian Solway, co-director of the UChicago Berggren Center for Quantum Biology and Medicine, along with Chemistry professor Greg Engel.

Climate scientist explains how models are being trained to predict heat waves, monsoons and even unprecedented ‘gray swan’ events in this latest Big Brains episode.

Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines.
 

On trip to Chilean telescope, UChicago undergrad class sheds new light on evolution of earliest stars.

As AI floods academic publishing, Chenhao Tan's lab argues AI can be part of the fix.
 

A new system from Yun Ho, Romain Nith, and Pedro Lopes combines AI and electrical muscle stimulation to physically guide users through unfamiliar tasks—marking a leap toward general-purpose, context-aware embodied assistance.
 

The arrival of AI-generated research papers marks a turning point that could radically accelerate discovery—or drown it in automated mediocrity.

New research from the University of Chicago suggests that computers make better tutors when they are not so thoroughly programmed to pretend to be human.

Dark matter is a substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—but cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. Scientists are trying many different approaches to find the nature of this mysterious substance.

UChicago scientists team up to deliver lithium with fewer side effects in an innovative biomedical patch.

The event, to be held December 8 – 10 at the Marriott Marquis Chicago and McCormick Place, combines Q2B’s quantum business, practical application, and investor strength with the Chicago Quantum Summit’s integrated focus on research, scale-up, and economic development, offering opportunities for participants to engage with thought leaders, explore partnerships, and build skills across the full discovery-to-deployment spectrum.

Leveraging programmable RNA translational activation, the Dickinson Group will work to address EHMT1 haploinsufficiency in rare disease.