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Since 2010, researchers from UChicago and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais have collaborated on projects addressing regional disparities and spatial economic models in Brazil related to topics in healthcare, property tax estimation, and housing market research.

The CNRS-UChicago International Research Lab for the Humanities (Humanities IRL) will serve as a hub for collaborative research projects co-conducted by scholars at UChicago and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. The Humanities IRL will host CNRS researchers for long- and short-term stays, enabling the integration of top scholars from France into the academic life of the University.

UChicago Global offers travel grants for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars conducting work in East Asia and Latin America.

Prof. Juliano Saccomani is currently working on a project to develop virtual-reality-enabled materials to be used in Portuguese and Spanish classes at UChicago. 

A research project led by Prof. Maanasa Raghavan and Dr. Constanza de la Fuente examines the problematics of genomics and identity in Chile. While acknowledging that increased access to genomic technologies and improvements to sampling diversity have led to progress in the field, the team notes that research of Indigenous peoples has often been done on rather than with or for them. They emphasize the need for research practices in academia to empower Indigenous communities in research settings, rather than relying on the goodwill of the researchers or expecting academic institutions to make amends.

The University of Chicago-CNRS International Research Center for Fundamental Scientific Discovery (IRC Discovery) recently awarded seven PhD Joint Program grants to its sixth cohort of awardees, focusing on topics ranging from quantum technologies and miniaturized solid-state batteries to epistemic vigilance in online communication.

The UChicago Global team played a pivotal role in extending the reach of Professor Jagoda’s work by expanding his itinerary from a single academic engagement in Shenzhen to a set of public appearances and media opportunities in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shenzhen.

The University of Chicago, Seoul National University, and the University of Tokyo have agreed to promote a global partnership on academic exchange and research in the field of quantum science and technology.

Fourth-year student Xavier Wu, graduate student Edris Tajik, and Wesley Fang, AB’23, to pursue graduate study in China

The University of Chicago announced this week the formation of the first U.S.-based node of the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique and Moléculaire (European Centre for Atomic and Molecular Computation, or CECAM), which will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and collaborations in frontier areas of computational science and technology.