The Center for Latin American Studies brings together UChicago faculty, students, and visiting academics for intellectual exchange central to Latin America and the Caribbean, seeking to nurture research and scholarship on Latin America across the University.
The Giant Magellan Telescope is the work of an international research consortium with offices in Santiago, Chile whose mission is to design, build, and operate the Giant Magellan Telescope to enable cutting-edge research and scientific observations that will revolutionize humanity’s fundamental understanding of the Universe.
The Katz Center for Mexican Studies promotes original research and informed international and interdisciplinary discussion on Mexican culture, history, arts, and politics, seeking to engage and bring together the academic community of the University, the Mexican-origin populations in the city of Chicago, and our fellow scholars in Mexico and beyond.
Flores takes on an intriguing and compelling yet simple sociological puzzle: what accounts for a sudden rise in the self-identified indigenous population in Mexico. He draws on multiple methods, rigorous data collection, innovating research design, and close attention to underlying mechanisms to investigate this puzzle.
A discovery by UChicago astrophysicists may change our picture of how stars explode and elements are made.
A study led by toxoplasmosis specialist Rima McLeod, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago has found an easy-to-use test and new paradigm for care can help save lives, sight, cognition and motor function by rapidly diagnosing and treating Toxoplasma infections.
By examining previously untapped sources, University of Chicago Humanities Professor Larissa Brewer-García has discovered fresh insights about the lives and culture of enslaved and free Black men and women in 17th-century Latin America. For the rigorous scholarship in her first book Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, she received the 2021 Friederich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History from the American Historical Association.
UChicago students conduct research at the Magellan telescopes as part of a new field course. This excursion is possible because the University of Chicago is a partner of the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory and has institutional access to the telescopes.
