The sciences at the University of Chicago encompass cutting-edge research, world-class scholarship, new ventures, and impactful partnerships focused on tackling grand challenges at scale. The University of Chicago accelerates breakthroughs across several science areas that will have an outsized global influence.
Featured Science Initiatives
Quantum Science & Engineering
When realized, quantum computers will perform calculations faster than today’s technology, enabling advanced logistics and drug discovery, and quantum communications will be able to transmit completely secure data. While quantum science and engineering is still nascent, it represents a rapidly growing market that has the potential for immense economic and societal value. The University of Chicago is a trailblazer in quantum information sciences – establishing one of the first Ph.D. programs in quantum science and engineering, helping to create the nation’s first quantum startup accelerator, and forming partnerships regionally, nationally, and internationally that have established Chicago and the Midwest as a leading destination for quantum research and investment.
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Data Science & AI
Data science and artificial intelligence have already begun to transform virtually every industry, unlocking immense economic opportunity as well as new ethical and scientific questions. The University of Chicago leverages its eminence in the sciences and its culture of inquiry and impact to play a leading role in defining this field. Here, data science encompasses a holistic view of the data life cycle, from collection and market valuation to information extraction, machine learning, and societal and scientific impact.
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Climate & Energy
One of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century is confronting the climate crisis and producing scalable clean energy solutions. The University of Chicago, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, represents one of the largest concentrations of climate and energy experts in the country, encompassing a wide range of disciplines from economics and policy to geophysical sciences and energy storage and conversion. Our approach includes leveraging the best scientific solutions in climate systems engineering and next generation energy technologies with policy and market-based expertise.
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Biological Engineering & Medicine
To forge a new interdisciplinary approach to tackling diseases, researchers at the University of Chicago create state-of-the-art tools and technologies that uncover new insights into and develop innovative solutions for major challenges in health and medicine. The University of Chicago, UChicago Medicine, and partners at Argonne National Laboratory and the Marine Biological Laboratory form a network of research and expertise that allow us to make some of the boldest explorations in bioengineering and medical science today.
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Emerging Technologies
The University of Chicago actively pursues new knowledge and innovation with the potential to completely change our understanding of the way industries and societies can and should work. These breakthroughs are taking place across sectors and can be discovered in the course of traditional research or as the result of entirely new lines of inquiry.