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Brought a little bit of home to campus this past weekend. Thank you to everyone who joined us for Family Weekend 2026!
AI is transforming how we use data centers and how much power they require. UChicago computer science Prof. Andrew Chien explains what data centers do, why AI is driving energy demand and how we can make computing more sustainable.
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Remembering Prof. Russell Tuttle, a pioneering UChicago scholar of human evolution. A self-described “stickler for truth,” he upended settled thinking about our earliest ancestors.
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Since 1776, Americans have argued over what the Declaration of Independence actually promises. As the nation marks its 250th, UChicago scholars and students are taking up that debate through an autumn season of exhibitions and public conversations.
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A new UChicago health and science campus in Washington Park just took a step closer to reality. Plans with @UChicagoMed and City Colleges detail a clinical lab supporting about 550 jobs, plus Chicago’s first medical lab technician program.
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Michael Woodford, AB’77, a College alum and former UChicago faculty member, has won the @NobelPrize for his work creating economic models that reshaped how policymakers steady a volatile economy.
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ALT A smiling Michael Woodford, an older man with gray hair and glasses. Text overlay announces: \"LATEST NEWS Michael Woodford, alum and former faculty member shares Nobel Prize.\" A red university crest is visible.
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2026 economic sciences laureate Michael Woodford’s economic model has made it possible to respond to supply shocks more effectively.
Various types of shocks can disrupt the balance between supply and demand. A negative supply shock could be a commodity shortage, while a positive supply shock could be a technological breakthrough that makes the production of large volumes cheaper and easier. A positive demand shock could be good news about the future that increases households’ consumption, and a negative one the opposite news. If the balance is disrupted, it can be reset using a stabilisation policy that reduces demand (to the left) or increases it (to the right).
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
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UChicago alum Stephen Korshak, LAB’69, AB’74, has spent decades building a renowned collection of fantastic art. His collection is featured in the 2025 book “Icons of the Fantastic,” with a foreword by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
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What did the Milky Way look like billions of years ago? New UChicago-led MEGATRON simulations offer the most detailed look yet at how our galaxy may have evolved from a collection of smaller galaxies into the spiral galaxy we know today.
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Neutrinos were at the center of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Called "ghost particles" because they are nearly impossible to catch, UChicago Prof. Abigail Vieregg discusses how her research used the glacial ice—and a NASA balloon—to detect them. ms.spr.ly/6016aUINq
ALT A large scientific instrument on a wheeled vehicle sits on vast Antarctic ice with orange cones. Text: BIG BRAINS PODCAST. Neutrino hunters: searching for ghostly particles in Antarctic ice. LATEST EPISODE.
Anne Carson, this year’s @NobelPrize winner in literature, is a familiar name to the UChicago community. Her translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians, published by the @UChicagoPress, was hailed for its unique poetic voice.
She visited UChicago in 2019 for a weeklong residency, delivering three lectures: “Stillness,” “Corners,” and “Chairs” as well as art workshops. In addition, College students today read from her books Eros the Bittersweet and Autobiography of Red, as part of the Core curriculum.
Curiosity was everywhere at the fifth annual South Side Science Festival! UChicago students, researchers and volunteers brought STEM to life through hands-on experiments and demonstrations for kids of all ages.
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A 165-million-year-old “Jurassic otter” is revealing new clues about mammal evolution. UChicago scientists found that Megacauda had throat structures that helped it chew and swallow like modern mammals.
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Book bans are surging—more than 4,000 titles were challenged last year, the second-highest on record. For Banned Books Week, UChicago banned books scholar Dulcey Hunter unpacks the issue and why open classroom dialogue is essential.
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