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Every summer, UChicagoans travel the globe to explore big questions, from human origins in South Africa to gig work in China and mourning traditions along Colombia’s rivers. These are just three stories from our latest dispatches.
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What if you existed not as a body, but as the energy you leave behind? Tokyo art collective teamLab explores this idea in “Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity,” its first Midwest show, free at UChicago’s Smart Museum of Art through Feb. 21.
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UChicago’s Gothic spires and old, twisting trees have sparked the imagination of great thinkers for generations—and they draw artists, too.
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UChicago Arts & Humanities Day returns Nov. 7! Join artists and scholars in partnership with Chicago Humanities for thought-provoking conversations on the stories that shape our world, including the Declaration of Independence 250 years later.
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UChicago is launching its first master's degree built entirely around AI. The nine-month applied AI program, launching next fall, will pair advanced study with hands-on work for students who already have a technical foundation.
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How do you catch a particle that can pass straight through the Earth?
On @BigBrainsUC, UChicago astrophysicist Abby Vieregg explains the hunt for neutrinos, the “ghost particles” haunting the cosmos—and the subject of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. ms.spr.ly/6015avvlV
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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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The University of Chicago retweeted
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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