The University's commitment to rigorous and innovative research in Asia is as old as its founding. The establishment of Centers in Beijing and Delhi as well as the Yuen Campus in Hong Kong extend the University of Chicago’s collaborative work with Asia-Pacific partners, alumni, and community at large. Highlighted below is UChicago's engagement within the region, including pages for India and Greater China, where the University maintains a physical presence.
The UChicago academic community expands across the region including medical research at the UChicago Research Bangladesh, collaboration to find high energy cosmic rays at the Japanese Module of the International Space Station, and the study of East Asian art traditions through the lens of history and culture facilitated by the Center for the Art of East Asia.
Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of History and in the College, was recently appointed faculty director of the Hong Kong Faculty Advisory Board for the University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong.
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty recently accepted an invitation to extend his tenure as faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Delhi and chair of the Delhi Faculty Steering Committee through June 30, 2023.
Ngô Bao Châu, who joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago on in 2010, received the Fields Medal, the International Congress of Mathematicians announced today in Hyderabad, India. The ICM cited Ngô "for his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms through the introduction of new algebro-geometric methods."
The International Linear Collider (ILC) is an electron-positron collider with 250 GeV center-of-mass energy designed to study Higgs couplings with a much higher precision than can be achieved at hadron collider experiments. Housed by the Japanese Government, this international project includes the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
This analysis proves that air pollution cuts lives short by more than a year in South Korea.
A new study by Asst. Prof. Marco Garrido examines the reasons behind voters’ loyalty to Filipino politician Joseph Estrada.
University of Chicago Library’s new collection of North Korean stamps, assembled in a public online database provide a unique glimpse of the insular country.
Third-year Nadia Redza competes in 200- and 400-meter medleys at World University Games in Naples, Italy.
