Prof. Jacqueline Stewart will deliver the keynote address at the University of Chicago’s 2026 MLK Commemoration Celebration ...

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New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

As electronics have gotten smaller and more flexible, they’ve been incorporated into more uses in the field of healthcare.

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

One of the biggest questions of every election is: What’s going on with young voters? There is endless speculation on the news about what young people care about, but very little good research ...

Balancing the urgent need to confront climate change with society’s need for rising living standards and expanded economic growth is the defining challenge of our time. Fossil fuels are the key driver ...

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You’ve heard of plastic polluting oceans. But what if it’s polluting you—your brain, your reproductive system, even your unborn children? In this eye-opening episode, we speak with Prof. Matthew ...

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Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has leaned heavily on the use of executive orders, issuing more than 200 directives on topics ranging from immigration to tariffs and climate change.