Fred Niell, AB’99, helped build a nuclear reactor in a dorm room. Did he ever make anything else?

Maureen Coleman’s lab samples the teeming microbiome of the Great Lakes.

How Margaret Gardel accidentally became a biophysicist.

A physician-economist tests the health and cost benefits of a closer doctor-patient relationship.

Cardiac surgeon Valluvan Jeevanandam was part of a team that made medical history.

Physicist David McCowan, SM’08, PhD’14, explains food science to lay readers in the Takeout.

Neurobiologists approach a better grasp of a mother octopus’s grim final days.

Rumor has it that artificial intelligence image recognition sees giraffes everywhere—but that might be a stretch.

Justin Kasper, AB’99, once built a working nuclear reactor for Scav. Now he’s built an equally impossible instrument for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.

By treating violence as a public health issue, UChicago Medicine trauma experts seek to transform care on Chicago’s South Side.

In CAR T-cell therapy, the immune system gets a boost that can be lifesaving.

For the UChicago doctors and molecular engineers working to enlist our own immune systems in the battle against cancer, successes and setbacks alike are critical to making the next leap.