Rzhetsky's team analyzed anonymized insurance claims from over 5 million American two-child families, and found that the order in which a child is born into a family is meaningfully associated with ...
Vaccine development is typically measured in years, not months. But as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, scientists are racing the clock—and breaking records—to develop an immunization that provides ...
The first time Tarana Burke presented a wellness program for middle school girls in Selma, Alabama, in 2005, she distributed sticky notes to each child. Then she asked the girls to write one of two ...
The Class of 2030 has arrived. The University of Chicago welcomed its newest students to campus last week, each of them ready ...
You can watch how these galaxies coalesced over time and formed the familiar spiral disk we see today, thanks to a new set of ...
New research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago looked at what happens in the brain when it tries to complete ...
As the Chicagoland region faces what many call a “fiscal cliff” for public transit, the stakes for riders, workers and policymakers are rising. University of Chicago Research Professor Justin Marlowe, ...
Vincenzo Vitelli, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago known for his innovative work in unconventional materials, has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow. Given each year by the John D.
The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Chicago Public Media are partnering on a new initiative, which will bring together 40 civic-minded Chicagoans of different backgrounds, ...
We are living in the midst of a global pandemic. And there is a bitter partisan debate unfolding on whether more Americans should cast their votes through the mail during a time when going out may be ...
Forty years ago, University of Chicago alum Edward T. Cotham Jr. began leading walking tours through historic Galveston, Texas. Each time he’d stop groups at the spot where the famous “Juneteenth ...
Kenneth Warren last delivered the Aims of Education address to new University of Chicago undergraduates. And while the world ...