A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...

The Latke Hamantash debate, a beloved University of Chicago tradition, will return for its 79th year on Feb. 22, with an event entitled “Snackonomics: The hidden forces that shape what we eat.” ...

David Auburn, AB’91, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director, has been announced as the speaker for the ...

Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...

Gift from Thomas and Susan Dunn supports creation of the Bike Shop @UChicago, which aims to shape AI development and build ...

On the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, learn more about Woodson and his legacy—as well as the events at UChicago, ...

The team used an AI method known as equation discovery to develop a model to simulate the interactions between small eddies—circular, vortex-like currents—and large-scale ones. These interactions are ...

Building on recent momentum, plans are underway for the Marine Biological Laboratory to return to its historic role as a ...

The University of Chicago’s Biological Sciences Division will launch two master’s degree programs in the fall of 2026 to help ...

Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...

The study used data from EM-DAT, the largest public database of disaster-related deaths. Rather than focusing on individual catastrophes, the research uses a statistical approach designed to reveal ...

Studying Dr. King’s legacy through that lens was the focus of Prof. Jacqueline Stewart’s keynote address at the University of ...