To teach social-emotional skills, does a robot need to pretend to be human? UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively

Graduate student #Wright & overseen by Asst. Prof. #Sebo at the #UniversityofChicago found that honest, factual #robots can effectively #supplement #classroom #instruction—challenging conventions & illuminating a new, ethical path for educational technology. news.uchicago.edu/story/teach-...

Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian Economist Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian becomes the first Indian to receive the University of Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement, honoring his global economic leadership.

Economist Krishnamurthy Subramanian Receives University Of Chicago Alumni Award

Full Story: indiawest.com/economist-kr...

#KrishnamurthySubramanian #UniversityOfChicago #ChicagoBooth #DistinguishedAlumni #IndianEconomist #ChiefEconomicAdvisor #EconomicPolicy #GlobalEconomics

Close-up photo of a snow-dusted sign reading “University of Chicago,” the maroon lettering standing out against the lighter surface. Fresh snow rests along the top bottom edge of the sign and covers the ground below, with a faint hint of the surrounding Midway Plaisance visible in the background.

Hyde Park: The Midway Plaisance in December ❄️ 🏰

(Site of a future walking tour 🚶‍♀️‍➡️️)

#Chicago #UniversityofChicago #urban #urbanism #hydepark #southside #nature #natureToot #photography #photo #citylife

Inside the Law School’s AI Lab In first-of-its-kind course, UChicago Law students built and shipped a free legal tech tool for renters

#UniversityofChicago #LawSchool #students created #LeaseChat, a generative #AI #chatbot to assist renters with lease agreements & tenant rights. The project, part of the school's inaugural AI Lab, aims to bridge the access-to-justice gap. news.uchicago.edu/story/inside...

University of Chicago quietly cuts ties with partnership that helps students of color attain Ph.D.s The University of Chicago is among 31 universities nationwide to cut ties with The Ph.D. Project, an organization known for helping students of color attain professional degrees, amid an investigat…

Shame on you, #UniversityOfChicago

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/20/u...

A bit groggy. part 2 of my hand surgery is complete and we believe is a success. My hand doctor is amazing!

#universityOfChicago

In an early #ManhattanProject success, #ThisDayInHistory in 1942 saw the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. #EnricoFermi built #ChicagoPile1 reactor underneath the west viewing stands of #StaggField at #UniversityOfChicago, risking disaster in a densely populated area.

Psychology Today Got the Waite Divorce Study Wrong — Here’s What the Data Really Show | Life-Saving Divorce Psychology Today misread the Waite study. See what the data really shows.

🚨 New Post: Whoops!
"Psychology Today" Gets a Famous Marriage Study Wrong!
If you’ve seen that "Psychology Today" article claiming “you won’t be happier after divorce,” please read this.
👉 lifesavingdivorce.com/psychologyto...
#lindawaite #universityofchicago #psychologytoday #happinessafterdivorce

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@f1tv.bsky.social @foxsports.com.web.brid.gy @nbcpalmsprings.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @cbssports.bsky.social @espn.com @sarahspain.com @nfldraftscout.bsky.social @minakimes.bsky.social 👀 Tweet
1 Make #PAC12 Great again - #UniversityOfChicago maroons elite University w/ GR8 TRADITI🏈N
2 San Diego ⚡

University of Chicago Researchers Break New Ground in Quantum Communication Quantum tech at University of Chicago may extend communication up to 2,000km, paving the way for a global quantum internet.

University of Chicago Researchers Break New Ground in Quantum Communication

#quantumcommunication #technology #universityofchicago #quantuminternet

More colleges and universities are standing up to the fascist agenda. Thank you, #UVA!

#NoFascistUSA #AThreadOfHope #UniversityOfChicago

#EOE #EEO #UChicagoChemistry #ChemistryJobs #AcademicJobs #InorganicChemistry #OriginsOfLife #FacultyPosition #TenureTrack #ChemistryResearch #UniversityOfChicago

#TBT to last weekend's South Side Science Festival!! Hosted on campus and open to community members of all ages, we spent the day celebrating science and curiosity!

#UniversityofChicago #AtTheForefront #medSky #ScienceIsForEveryone #EducationSky #OncSky

Grew up like a block away from the #UniversityOfChicago helipad and I have never in all my life heard so many helicopters as I have since 47's Christofascist paramilitary marched in.

🧵 on the #UniversityofChicago

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it does not expect to do research.

www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-th...

Conservative ideology was undermining US higher education when Trump was just another obnoxious real estate guy in NYC.

#HigherEducation #Universities #UniversityOfChicago

When even the University of Chicago "suspends" its ancient languages, we're no longer talking about a marginal crisis, but rather an assertive collapse of the university's humanist foundation. The cultural attack advances masked under budgetary guise.
#Humanities #Classics #UniversityOfChicago #MAGA

My heart breaks to read this, @literaturesc.bsky.social #UniversityofChicago
Prob similar changes at other schools too.

(Saw a flyer at a tiny, secluded children's park "Free AI class every Tuesday". Ugh.)

Don't cave, #universityofchicago #uchicago @uchicagolaw.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uchicagomag.bsky.social @ucstonecenter.bsky.social

“Nuclear Energy” bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, located at University of Chicago, marks the first controlled nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942.

#scape
#cityscape
#publicart
#universityofchicago
#nuclearenergy
#eastcoastkin
#photography

People like extroverted robots — but they relate to the neurotic ones Neurotic personalities are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities have recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relata...

Study found a majority of participants actually mentioned how human-like they found the #neurotic #robot, says #Zhang, researcher at the #UniversityofChicago. They found it to be a lot more #relatable. www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

Have some pretty buildings.

#DriftingdragonArt #Driftingdragon #Drift-current #Photography #Scenery #Architecture #UniversityOfChicago

Voilá avec quoi je vais me régaler pendant l’été… #Ricoeur #UniversityOfChicago #Imagination

R.I.P., Edward #Anders [°June 21, 1926 – June 1, 2025]🕯️😔🌹

#SolarSystem #Cosmos #geologyoftheMoon #cosmochemistry #presolargrains #1990VMGoldschmidtAward #UniversityofChicago #EricaSheftelovitchMeiran #EdwardAlperovitch #EdwardAnders

#Chicago cops make excuses for someone on a #Police foundation board illegally snatching someone's #Cellphone. This is beyond #Disgusting, CPD should be #Ashamed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTY...

#CookCounty #ChicagoIL #ChicagoIllinois #DowntownChicago #ChicagoStte #UniversityOfChicago #Wrigleyville

Innovating Kidney Care: The University of Chicago's Approach A groundbreaking initiative from the University of Chicago's Section of General Internal Medicine is shedding light on a novel approach to chronic kidney disease (CKD) education.

Akilah King from University of Chicago's Section of General Internal Medicine discusses her JMIR Research Protocols paper on how the ICCKD tool tackles health disparities.

Learn more: blog.jmir.org/innovating-k...

#CKD #HealthEquity #UChicago #UniversityOfChicago

🔎 Spotted in @nature.com!
Researchers from #UniversityOfChicago, among others, used DSHB's anti-neurofilament-associated [3A10] mAb in a study on the origin of dental tissues and the evolution of vertebrate and invertebrate exoskeletons.

📄 tinyurl.com/v75u4p2t

🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/3A10