Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public ...

Through the Schwarzman Scholars program, she will return to a place that she hasn’t visited in almost a decade. “Gaining an ...

Computer models developed by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the ...

Stuart Alan Rice, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago whose pioneering research shaped the field of physical chemistry in the second half of the 20th century, died Dec. 22 at the age of ...

Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. The changes ...

Prof. Harold Pollack may be famous for his “financial index card” of advice, but it’s his application of simple solutions to complex issues that’s reshaping how we tackle crime and health care. Paul ...

According to scientists who study diseases, the possibility of a fungal pandemic—the subject of science fiction TV shows like “The Last of Us,” could be more of a reality, thanks to climate change and ...