Louise Lerner

NSF awards up to $21.4M for design of next-gen telescopes to capture earliest moments of universe South Pole station

NSF awards up to $21.4M for design of next-gen telescopes to capture earliest moments of universe

Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe

UChicago alum Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of quantum dots Portrait of Moungi Bawendi looking at camera and smiling in front of a chalkboard with a molecule diagram and a wall photo of beakers containing quantum dots in different colors

UChicago alum Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of quantum dots

UChicago statistician Rina Foygel Barber awarded MacArthur Fellowship Prof. Barber stands in front of a chalkboard with equations, looking at the camera

UChicago statistician Rina Foygel Barber awarded MacArthur Fellowship

For first time, scientists follow sodium and potassium inside cell organelles A scientist wearing white lab coat and purple gloves stands at a lab bench with a microscope holding a petri dish

For first time, scientists follow sodium and potassium inside cell organelles

From Israeli digs to Greenland villages, UChicagoans travel the world for research Greenland

From Israeli digs to Greenland villages, UChicagoans travel the world for research

Students, faculty share how they spent their summers studying everything from languages to glaciers

Northwestern, UChicago to receive $50 million to study life sciences using mathematics From left: Profs. Margaret Gardel, Mary Silber, Rebecca Willett, and Stephanie Palmer

Northwestern, UChicago to receive $50 million to study life sciences using mathematics

New institute will be an international hub focused on fundamental questions

NSF to establish $15.5M Center for Living Systems at the University of Chicago Two professors standing outside on a college campus on a sunny day smiling at camera

NSF to establish $15.5M Center for Living Systems at the University of Chicago

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays Artist illustration of a tubular spacecraft in space, with wings extending out from both sides

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays

Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe

Scientists demonstrate new, improved way to make infrared light—with quantum dots Xingyu Shen

Scientists demonstrate new, improved way to make infrared light—with quantum dots

New method from UChicago chemists could lead to cost-effective sensors

What NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has discovered in its first five years looping the sun Parker Solar Probe

What NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has discovered in its first five years looping the sun