“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

Anthropology at Chicago’ pairs faculty conversations with archival research for College students as department approaches its ...

Former dean of the Humanities Division remembered for his gentle kindness, skill with words and shrewd sense of humor ...

Neubauer Collegium project to articulate value of humanistic scholarship and teaching in higher education and society ...

The link between construction costs and real estate prices has weakened in recent decades, finds research from UChicago Booth ...

Prof. Eric Posner, a prominent legal scholar whose work has shaped debates on constitutional and international law, will ...

A 2023 study of five major cities showed that more than 55% of shootings occurred in just 9% of total census tracts, and that ...

University of Chicago fourth-year student Joe Zhang and alum Samuel Levy, AB’24, have been selected as 2026 Schwarzman ...

The Great Red Spot is a gigantic storm, twice the size of Earth, that has swirled for centuries. It’s just one of many on the ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...