When the University of Chicago launched the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression in 2023, President Paul Alivisatos said it ...

With a focus on interdisciplinary, out-of-the-box solutions, the center funds projects that aim to make a difference ...

Researchers working with data from the South Pole Telescope have released a major catalog of galaxy clusters, giving ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

UChicago researchers highlight how incentives, market structure and public policy guide AI development toward artificial ...

Polsky Center and seven partnering innovation programs launched with events including the Midwest Deep Tech Demo Day ...

For the past two weeks, the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris have grabbed the global spotlight. And on world’s stage, two University of Chicago alumni athletes—judo competitor John Jayne, AB’19, and ...

Floods, storms, and extreme temperatures kill many people around the world each year. But the deadliness of these climate hazards changes as the climate warms, populations grow or move and societies ...

Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned and Nobel Prize-winning scientist who made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of the laws of physics and the nature of particles, died Oct. 18 in Beijing ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

Prof. Emeritus Mihaly “Mike” Csikszentmihalyi, a pioneering University of Chicago psychologist known as the “father of flow,” died Oct. 20 at his home in Claremont, California. He was 87. As a scholar ...