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‘Chaotic’ Iowa caucuses provide valuable lessons for students

Doomsday Clock-new

Big Brains podcast

Why the Doomsday Clock is Closer to Apocalypse Than Ever

Events

Third Tuesday Jazz: Junius Paul

7:30 PM

Logan Center, Cafe

Smart Museum visitors admire gu wenda's "united nations: american code," made of human hair.

Art installation

From cigarettes to human hair: Exhibition uses materials to explore Chinese art

Aerial view of early Hyde Park-Kenwood overlooking Jackson Park

Only at UChicago

“I hope they appreciate the kind of layers that exist here in Hyde Park, much like the layers they discovered when they excavated Troy.”
—Prof. John Mark Hansen on his new book

Large circular detector framework at the Large Hadron Collider with worker in foreground

Research

UChicago to build instrumentation for upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider

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A row of wooden Pinocchio toys

Research

Why some people lie to appear more honest

Accolades

Prof. Cathryn Nagler honored for outstanding contributions to immunology

Harris podcast

Podcast explores pressing policy issues through data and research—not punditry

Research

New telescope reveals most detailed images of sun’s surface
Educators in a classroom

Education

Test scores don’t stack up to GPAs in predicting college success

South Pole Telescope - Aurora

Research

Leftover Big Bang light helps calculate how massive faraway galaxies are

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“Sophonisba Breckinridge’s story is really about the power of perseverance and the importance of public service.”

Sophinsiba Breckinridge —Biographer Anya Jabour

Noodle making in Xi'an

Research

Takeout noodles inspire UChicago scientists to invent remarkable synthetic tissue