Research

Rigorous scholarship is at the heart of everything we do, and our city derives lasting benefits from our innovative ideas and research programs.

Our research collaborations bring our faculty and students together with expert practitioners in our adjacent communities. By working alongside civic partners who provide experience-based insights, we achieve a stronger understanding of pressing urban issues and develop pragmatic, thoughtful policies to help solve them.

As part of our commitment to fruitful research collaborations, we work to promote our results to the broadest possible audience, here in Chicago and far beyond, with the goal of achieving lasting positive impact.

The solutions we develop here in Chicago have the potential to transform the lives of people in cities around the world.

10/22/2024

UChicago part of cross-Chicago university collaboration to map the brain

A team of UChicago scientists is joining others from Chicago State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago to adapt imaging technology for connectomics and drastically increase the speed of capturing brain images.

10/09/2024

University of Chicago Crime Lab study finds youth program reduces violent crime, results persist for three years

A study of Choose to Change, a partnership between nonprofits Brightpoint and Youth Advocate Programs, Inc., found that participants are 39 percent less likely to be arrested for a violent crime.

10/03/2024

Black Metropolis Research Consortium receives grant to support community archives documenting Black Chicago

As part of a larger grant, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) at the University of Chicago will receive $590,000 to support internships at four community archives that are important for Black Chicago history.

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May 22nd, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Pandemic to Progress: Innovations in Housing Stability Summit

Join an impactful summit hosted by UChicago's Inclusive Economy Lab where to dig into the latest research in housing stability.

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Donovan Pryor
Youth Internship Program

The Youth Internship Program at UChicago provides interns like Pryor with meaningful work experience while also offering professional development workshops, career exploration activities, and college readiness and access programming