2021 Highlights

New Leadership

Paul Alivisatos named 14th president of the University of Chicago

Leading the Response to COVID-19

Life after the COVID-19 vaccine: Envisioning the ‘new normal’

Initiatives

Landmark gift to UChicago is nation’s largest ever for the study of social work, policy, and practice

Impact

Department of Energy selects Argonne, Fermilab to lead two multi-million-dollar national quantum research centers

Research and Scholarship

In long-awaited breakthrough, UChicago scientists harness molecules into single quantum state

Accolades

Andrea Ghez, UChicago Laboratory Schools alum, wins Nobel Prize in Physics