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10/01/2025
Civic Leadership
Reflect, Connect, Lead: the Civic Leadership Academy enters a new era

With new leadership in Christopher Berry and Milvia Rodriguez, the Civic Leadership Academy builds on a decade of impact.
09/30/2025
At the end of their day of sessions and conversations with local leaders, 500 students took part in one of 15 service projects supporting nonprofit organizations in the University's neighboring communities.
Incoming College students connect with Chicago civic leaders and join neighborhood service projects at annual Engage Chicago orientation

On September 26, all UChicago first-years gathered for the University’s annual Engage Chicago Orientation—a day designed to help incoming students engage with the city.

09/26/2025
UCM patient advocacy program reduces ED visits
UChicago Medicine patient advocate program reduces repeat ED visits

A program that helps patients navigate the healthcare system with help from patient advocates significantly reduces repeat emergency department (ED) visits for low-acuity medical issues (minor or non-urgent needs), according to a new study by University of Chicago Medicine researchers.
09/17/2025
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.
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
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
09/11/2025
Year of Games
During Year of Games, UChicago invites everyone to play

Year-long celebration of games launches with library exhibition and three-day symposium featuring game makers, writers and scholars
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
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