University of Chicago News

In Memoriam

Russell Tuttle, renowned scholar of human evolution, 1939-2026

Over his six-decade career, UChicago professor championed honest scholarship, diverse perspectives and his students

Plans advance for new health and science campus in Washington Park

Honors

Michael Woodford, UChicago alum and former faculty member, shares Nobel Prize

What are data centers, and why do they need so much power? An expert explains

UChicago scientists reveal a Jurassic otter that could chew and swallow like modern mammals

UChicago announces recipients of 2026 Academic Communicators Network Excellence Awards

Around UChicago

UChicago Space Program takes stratospheric science to new heights with NASA

Undergraduate-built experiment collects particles 23 miles above Earth aboard a high-altitude balloon

Around UChicago

Learning is a blast—literally—at the South Side Science Festival

Dancing robots, mutant Legos and rocks that rock marked the fifth annual UChicago STEM community outreach event

Does birth order shape our health? UChicago scientists analyze 5 million families to understand

Analysis reveals patterns in later diagnoses between first-born and second-born siblings

UChicago commemorates America’s 250th with exhibition, discussions

From exhibitions to panel discussions, UChicago scholars and students will examine our past and future as the United States commemorates its 250th anniversary.

Book Bans

UChicago Library expands access to banned books amid national debate over censorship

UChicago marks Banned Books Week by launching effort to collect more than 1,500 books banned in U.S., make them broadly available

Big Brains podcast

Exploring the groundbreaking research and discoveries transforming our world

Episode 188

Neutrino hunters: Searching for ghostly particles in Antarctic ice, with Abby Vieregg

Astrophysicist leads launch of NASA balloon to detect high-energy particles from the cosmos

Episode 187

Recreating a sense of touch, using our minds, with Nicholas Hatsopoulos

Scientist decodes mind-body connection to study how brain-machine interfaces could help paralyzed patients

Episode 186

Why the key to treating cancer may be in your gut, with Thomas Gajewski

Doctor explains how cancer immunotherapy uses microbiome to create ‘on-off’ switch for tumors

Episode 185

How to raise kids in the age of AI, with Dana Suskind

Doctor explains how technology should enhance, not replace parenting during children’s formative years

Episode 184

What our trash problem says about our culture, with Sarah Newman

Anthropologist’s history of waste shows how society evolved into a disposable society

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UChicago

Class Visits

With real artifacts, students piece together the ancient past

Course at UChicago’s ISAC Museum teaches how to think like an archaeologist with hands-on approach

Please play this syllabus

In ‘Gaming the Gods,’ UChicago undergrads use video games as primary texts to understand religious symbolism and ritual practice

Stevie Wonder is beloved. But can anyone explain his legacy?

In the “Wonder Lab," a UChicago course brought together students and community members to examine the critical influence of an icon

Harnessing the history of Chicago through its archives

A new College course sends students to uncover the ‘hidden stories of the Second City’ in special collections from the Stockyard Institute to Harold Washington Library

In all likelihood, we are standing in a sea of dark matter and don’t know it, because it virtually never interacts with our atoms. Learn how scientists at UChicago are searching to understand this mysterious substance.

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Dark energy, explained

Coined by University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner in 1998, dark energy—the force causing the universe to expand faster over time—remains one of the great mysteries of physics.

Exoplanets, explained

We now know there are thousands of planets out there in our galaxy alone. Learn what we know about them, and what mysteries remain.

The origin of life on Earth, explained

Ecological succession, explained

The Gut Microbiome, explained

Inside the Lab

Explore Labs Across UChicago

Conservation Lab: Preserving the world’s oldest objects

Travel inside ISAC's Conservation Lab and meet the conservators who use science and steady hands to care for artifacts from some of the world's most ancient cultures.

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