Stuart Alan Rice, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago whose pioneering research shaped the field of physical chemistry in the second half of the 20th century, died Dec. 22 at the age of ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos was awarded the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award—one of the most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government—at a Jan. 10 ...

Five years after COVID became a global pandemic, could another health crisis be on our horizon? According to scientists who study diseases, the possibility of a fungal pandemic—the subject of science ...

Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. The changes ...

Prof. Wendy Freedman, one of world’s leading cosmologists, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the country’s ...

Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named ...

President Joe Biden presents David M. Rubenstein with the Medal of Freedom during a Jan. 4 ceremony at the White House.