UChicago scholar sheds light on why elected officials threaten democracy more often than military coups in the 21st century ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public ...

In 2014, in response to a wave of schools and universities disinviting speakers for their unpopular views, the University of ...

Through the Schwarzman Scholars program, she will return to a place that she hasn’t visited in almost a decade. “Gaining an ...

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

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 ...

Survey showed combined race and ethnicity questions caused fewer Hispanic Americans to identify as other races ...

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 ...

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

Computer models developed by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the ...

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