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At the festival, King teaches children the conservation of angular momentum by sitting them on a chair on a free-moving pedestal and having them hold a bike wheel vertically. He then gets the tire spinning fast and tells the unaware youngsters to tilt it.
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Upcoming South Side Science Festival on Oct. 4 brings UChicago STEM to the community

Skateboard physics, a giant inflatable colon and the cutest robots known to science await South Side families on October 4

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09/17/2025
Hyde Park Labs is a 300,000-square-foot commercial laboratory facility that will help advance science research and entrepreneurship.Photo by Anne Ryan
Hyde Park Labs and UChicago Science Incubator launch

New commercial space aims to turn research into real-world solutions, support deep tech startups
09/16/2025
Community Benefit Report
UChicago Medicine invested $715 million in community benefits in fiscal 2024

The University of Chicago Medicine invested $715 million in community benefits in fiscal 2024, according to its newly released Community Benefit Report.

09/16/2025
UChicago Medicine has released its 2024-25 Community Health Needs Assessments
UChicago Medicine releases 2024–25 Community Health Needs Assessments for the South Side and south suburbs

The University of Chicago Medicine has released its 2024–25 Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs), the result of an 18-month process that engaged thousands of residents and stakeholders across the Chicago's South Side and south suburbs.
09/15/2025
Science teacher Adam Davenport from Bowen High School on Chicago’s South Side demonstrates the “blorb,” a hands-on method of explaining quantum gateways he created and workshopped through the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s TeachQuantum program. (Photo by Elaina Eichorn)
TeachQuantum helps high school teachers bring quantum to the classroom

Through lasers, Legos and blorbs, UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering teaches teachers in Illinois and Wisconsin how to share quantum science and engineering
09/10/2025
Celeste Baca, 28, was one of 17 City Colleges of Chicago students who participated in three weeks of lectures, demonstrations, lab tours and career development seminars on the University of Chicago campus for the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s Introduction to Molecular Engineering course. (Photo by Jason Smith)
UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering course shows City Colleges of Chicago students a life in STEM

Many think they need to go directly from high school to the Ivies to have a career in STEM, but a program run by the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) shows City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) students that’s not the case.
09/04/2025
President Barack Obama speaks with last year's cohort of Obama Foundation Scholars.
Eighteen students selected as 2025-26 University of Chicago Obama Foundation Scholars

Drawn from communities around the world and across Chicago, the newest cohort of the University of Chicago Obama Foundation Scholars Program has been announced.

09/03/2025
Vivanya Dissanayake, a 16-year-old junior at Taft High School, spent her summer interning in the lab of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Assoc. Prof. Chong Liu through the After School Matters STEM Lab Internship program. (Photo by Elaina Eichorn)
After School Matters gives Chicago teens a taste of lab life

Yearly internship program gives STEM-focused Chicago Public Schools high schoolers research experience at the college level
08/20/2025
A new grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will set up a Chip Design Hub centered at the University of Chicago to help promote American manufacturing of 3D computer chips.
New $3M U.S. National Science Foundation grant bolsters American design and manufacturing of advanced 3D chip technologies

UChicago-led NSF ACE-3D Chip Design Hub will focus on propelling domestic computer chip manufacturing efforts
08/15/2025
Summer Links student at community partner site
Summer Links program plugs UChicago students into Chicago's civic ecosystem

The University Community Service Center’s Summer Links program immerses students into hands-on experiences with community partners leading to a deeper understanding of needs and valuable insights into the behind-the-scenes work it takes to keep programs running smoothly.
08/13/2025
YIP interns
South Side high school students discover ‘behind the scenes’ career possibilities through UChicago Youth Internship Program

Beyond opening students’ eyes to what an industry professional might look like, participants in the UChicago Youth Internship Program say the program showed them whole career sectors they didn’t know existed.
08/08/2025
A young participant learns about film archiving at Home Movie Day, an annual event hosted by the SSHMP where donor families' home movies are publicly screened and celebrated.
Five gems from the South Side Home Movie Project

The community-driven archive is marking 20 years of preservation and storytelling with an exhibition and year-long celebration.
07/29/2025
The University of Chicago is proud to play a leading role in building the quantum economy
UChicago partners with IBM to strengthen quantum computing startups in Illinois

On July 24 at the Global Quantum Forum in Chicago, IBM and the University of Chicago announced their intent to offer Duality startups resources and support to develop quantum software and explore a...
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