A UChicago Harris study finds accounting for a small share of 'protest votes' can significantly shift how researchers map ideology on Capitol Hill ...

Researchers and students marked the new film with a panel discussion, hands-on science demos and a shared love of discovery ...

Internationally renowned novelist and essayist Yiyun Li has become known for writing that probes life’s hardest realities. Li ...

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Freed’s scientific trajectory began early; he and his brother Jack, who himself would go on to ...

Last month, a UChicago-led mission known as Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations, or PUEO, landed a few hundred miles from the South Pole after a journey aboard a NASA balloon. PUEO flew 120,000 ...

In Q&A, UChicago experts discuss regime change, the legal basis for military action, and global fallout from the U.S.-Israel attack ...

Tamari Miller, a soft-spoken fourth-year from Jamaica, once found himself in front of 300 of his fellow students dressed like Sebastian the Crab, singing a song from The Little Mermaid. Miller is very ...

That superhero is a gene called TP53, and for decades scientists have known it as the “guardian of the genome.” In a healthy cell, TP53 acts like both a brake and an emergency stop button. When DNA ...

As the Class of 2025 joins the robust intellectual community at the University of Chicago, five first-year students in the College share their diverse backgrounds, myriad of interests and hopes for ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

Members of the University of Chicago community are mourning the loss of graduate student Yiran Fan, SM’15, and remembering him as an exceptional student, talented scholar and beloved friend. A 30-year ...

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