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What caused Chicago’s transit funding crisis—and what could fix it?

UChicago municipal finance expert Justin Marlowe explains the $250 million budget shortfall threatening CTA, Metra and Pace

Chicago youth explore science on-campus with Space Explorers

Since 1991, UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics has connected students from Chicago Public Schools with world-class astronomers and physicists

Tiny sensors rapidly detect ‘forever chemicals’ in water

New portable test can find different PFAS chemicals, including those now regulated by the E.P.A.

100 years of Swift Hall in 10 objects

Historic home of UChicago’s Divinity School celebrates its centennial with digital exhibit and architectural tour

The Hawaiian surfers who exposed bias in science

In ‘Capturing Kahanamoku,’ UChicago historian Michael Rossi explores how a 1920s anthropological obsession reshaped ideas about culture and science

Largest-ever South Side Science Festival puts UChicago STEM in kids’ hands

Annual event draws 700 UChicago scientists, 200 volunteers to share science demonstrations on campus

Students explore cultural stewardship on Chicago’s South Side

College course with Arts + Public Life links academic study to community-based arts and engagement

New molecular qubits bring ‘quantum internet’ closer to reality

UChicago researchers, partners create molecules that communicate on the same frequencies as phone and internet services