Institute News

Former White House Special Assistant Avi Zevin and former Heritage Foundation Deputy Director Nick Loris will share their insights on the policy implications of energy and climate research from UChicago faculty.

Three independent actors across Nigeria are building an air pollution monitoring network community of efforts to drive policy action. High-quality, open and real-time tracked data is enabling government agencies and researchers to identify hotspots, inform policy, and forge new partnerships...

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth served as the leading academic thought partner for the summit, with a large cohort of students and scholars attending for three packed days in Chicago.

View photos taken by UChicago College students during their time in our India Summer Fellows Program this July.

Climate change has increased childhood malaria and could continue to do so in southern and East Africa where communities are less experienced at tackling the disease, while reducing the risk in today’s hotspots as temperatures become too high for mosquitoes.

A research team at the University of Chicago and NYU used experiments and molecular simulations to better understand how polymer backbone design affects the performance of ion-exchange membranes

AI data centers could reliably commit 40% of their electricity demand as flexible load, easing the reliability gap without waiting years for new power plants to be built.

The second India Summer Fellows Program cohort took on climate challenges and solutions across disciplines, grounded in local action.

The EPIC Clean Air Program served as a key thought partner at the 2026 Africa Clean Air Forum in Pretoria, South Africa, helping to advance high-level dialogue to expand air quality monitoring and action across the continent.

Climate change’s unequal impacts highlight the urgent need to discover innovative adaptation strategies in today’s poor and hot countries.