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Editor's Note: Check back for frequent updates throughout Orientation Week. In his remarks to new University of Chicago students, President Paul Alivisatos welcomed the Class of 2030 and incoming […]

In the search for extraterrestrial life, it makes sense to first look for rocky planets with an atmosphere, like Earth. Without an atmosphere, a planet can’t have surface water. But of the more […]

The Library of Congress announced on Sept. 22 that Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum is the 2026 recipient of the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.  Awarded every other year, the […]

Tariffs are usually debated as trade policy. But a study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business treats them as something else: a mechanism for redistributing wealth. The tipping of […]

The University of Chicago is launching its first degree program dedicated exclusively to AI.  The Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence program, which will be offered through the […]

The kids’ minds are blown, University of Chicago graduate student Madhumitha Prakash said, when yellow and blue don’t make green.  Each year for the past three years, the UChicago Pritzker […]

Eighteen rising leaders have been selected to the newest cohort of the University of Chicago Obama Foundation Scholars Program, which was announced Sept. 15. Drawn from communities around the world […]

Editor’s note: This story is part of Meet a UChicagoan, a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. During this summer’s FIFA World Cup, Joe […]

One of the most important goals of studying genetics is to find genes that are involved with diseases.  The problem is that most diseases aren’t caused by a single gene or mutation. They’re the […]

For many, “uncertainty” has become an era-defining word.  Rapid technological advances, shifting global landscape and even an unclear picture of what happens after college graduation has led to […]

The University of Chicago on Sept. 9 announced the launch of a long-term initiative to expand college and career opportunities for students from rural and small-town communities across the United […]

Dinner last Friday was a hoot. Wine and conversation flowed; dishes were perfectly seasoned. The reward center of your brain lit up like the Fourth of July. This week you have a decision to make: […]

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider sends protons crashing together at extraordinary speeds, allowing scientists to study the fundamental building blocks of matter […]

The earliest light in the universe, known as the cosmic microwave background, has been traveling since the dawn of the universe over 14 billion years ago.  A group of scientists from 30 institutions […]

Since its founding in 1776, the United States has transformed as a country and a society. The University of Chicago Press has published books on nearly every phase of that national journey, from the […]

Madhav Rajan has been reappointed for a third term as the Steven S. Wymer Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, President Paul Alivisatos and Provost Katherine Baicker […]

Swapping out one letter in a word can entirely change its meaning. Similarly, swapping one atom in a molecule can completely change its identity. A group of chemists with the University of Chicago […]

A new study led by a University of Chicago researcher finds health care spending in the United States has increasingly diverged between high- and low-income Americans over the past two decades.  The […]

As a University of Chicago behavioral scientist studying social cognition, Nicholas Epley conducts many studies that require two strangers to have a conversation. But those studies are far from […]

The University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees has elected five new members: Wei Cai, AM’95, MBA’95; David Foley; Stephanie Rada Zocco, AB’88; Imran Siddiqui, AB’96, AM’96; and Konstantin […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced Aug. 25 that it has renewed the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Sensing for Biophysics and Bioengineering with a $37.5 million, five-year […]

Indian Ocean imports shaped many lives across the ancient world.  In Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade, Jeremy A. Simmons, an assistant professor of history at the […]

Inserting a diamond-based quantum sensor into a living cell can obtain previously unseen levels of detail about how life works and how diseases form. “Think of it as an EKG for a single cell, a way […]

Pinocchio is bullshitting. Not wanting to reveal his friend’s location, but also not wanting to trigger the telltale sign that he’s lying, the Shrek the Third character talks in circles to […]

Prof. Randal C. “Randy” Picker, an influential legal scholar and beloved teacher whose ties to the University of Chicago began nearly five decades ago as a College student, died Aug. 15. He […]