University of Chicago News

Harper Library and other parts of the UChicago campus, seen from the Rubenstein Forum

Announcement

University of Chicago Board of Trustees elects two new members

RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice

Dave Kaleta

Laboratory Schools

Artfully using LEGO as the building blocks of learning

Illustration of two people thinking

Big Brains Podcast

Big Brains podcast: The Deadly Flaw in Our Judgment, with Cass Sunstein

Masitinib study

COVID-19

Existing drug mastinib is shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 virus

University of Chicago scientists around first nuclear reaction, Chicago Pile-1

Core knowledge

The first nuclear reactor, explained

Scott Imbrie wears a VR headset

Medicine

UChicago researchers re-create sense of touch and motor control in paralyzed patient

Visitors interact with behavioral science exhibits at Chicago Booth's Mindworks center

Chicago Booth

How does the mind work? Visit this new interactive space to learn more

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Around UChicago

image of Centaurus A galaxy and a box zoomed in to show the faint image taken by the EHT of a jet coming from the center

Astronomy

Event Horizon Telescope takes pioneering image of massive jet spewing from black hole

Obituary

Lauren Berlant, preeminent literary scholar and cultural theorist, 1957–2021

Divinity School

Brie Loskota named executive director of Martin Marty Center

Graduate students

In competition, UChicago students present theses in three minutes or less

Ilan Naibryf stands in front of the Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago

Remembering Ilan Naibryf

Ilan Naibryf, rising fourth-year student in the College, 1999-2021

Max Solomon Lewis

Remembering Max Lewis

Max Solomon Lewis, rising third-year student in the College, 2001-2021

President Robert J. Zimmer

Reflecting on 15 years of impact

President Robert J. Zimmer

Summer reading

Recommended reading

Books you should read this summer, according to UChicago faculty