Undergraduate-built experiment collects particles 23 miles above Earth aboard a NASA high-altitude balloon.

2026 National Postdoc Appreciation Week honors postdocs, marks 150th anniversary of the first postdoctoral researcher in the U.S.

PhD student Edward Ionescu prepared for a career in therapeutics by studying the effects of the gut microbiome.

The City Colleges of Chicago Summer Program at UChicago PME gives students an introduction to STEM research and careers.

Master's student Caitlin McGrath's passion for renewable energy carried her across the Atlantic and back-to hands-on research in an electrochemistry lab.

PhD student Trevor Ung is working to make vaccines last longer by giving them a new target.

Now in its sixth year, TeachQuantum helps teachers make quantum concepts accessible and engaging.

PhD student Rodrigo Pires Ferreira uses his talents for problem solving to discover new materials for future technologies.

Award by Berlin-based Falling Walls Foundation honors high-risk, multi-field leap across quantum, biology, and chemistry.

Breakthrough from a team led by Jacob Covey, associate professor in the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Department of Physics, turns helium-3's low mass into a quantum resource.

PhD student Su-un Lee is working to understand how quantum devices can provide a computational advantage in the near term.

Yearly American Chemical Society gathering brought the scientific world to Chicago for 2026.

After four years in pharmaceutical quality control, master's student Akasha Ashraf came to UChicago PME to understand how therapies are built from the ground up - and discovered a passion for engineering the immune system itself.

University of Chicago-led institute will advance quantum sensors toward robust tools for revealing biological processes beyond the reach of conventional measurement

Research outlines a new workflow for design and manufacturing, illustrated by two new methane-fighting materials.

High school student Tarik Gencer didn’t think much about electrochemistry before summer break.

New insights into how ions move through solids can have applications from batteries to microelectronics to water filters.

Research indicates surface effects, not temperature, are responsible for a longtime hurdle in using quantum tech to explore living cells.

Fifteen years ago, noted soft materials expert

In mathematics and getting dressed, some processes are commutative, while others are noncommutative.

Research suggests that an engineered bacteria strain may be a powerful approach for improving treatment response in pancreatic cancer.

The same class of chemical additive that makes plastic wrap pliable and vinyl flooring soft could be the key to unlocking the next generation of wearable displays.

Tomorrow’s clean energy, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and national defense rely on developing novel, next-generation soft materials – things like liquids, polymers, gels, colloids, foams, an

Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium, and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights in your house, and the MRI machine at your doctor’s office.

The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has won nearly $55 million to build the nation a quantum supply chain following a US Economic Development Administration aw