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Using AI can accelerate your work significantly, but inappropriate use can expose you to real risks. Our online workshop, Appropriate use of AI, goes over how to evaluate responsible use at both the input and output levels. August 13th 11AM. Register: events.uchicago.edu/event/271788-a…

July's Emerging Technologies Update is available! This month, are officers'/directors' AI chats discoverable? Suspected AI cheating on a take-home exam at Brown led to an in-person final — and scores fell by half. Read this and more at tinyurl.com/2w5pbkmn

The Library is offering a data curation fellowship for graduate students. We will provide access and support to the fellow who will define the project and drive its direction. lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/dat…

A quantum computer solved in approximately 15 minutes what would overwhelm the world's top traditional computers. Led by IBM with a UChicago team, the milestone demonstrates "quantum advantage"—the point where quantum outperforms classical computers. ms.spr.ly/6016a6lVo

Tomorrow, 7/29, join our tour of the BMRC 20th Anniversary Exhibition, “The Ways We Remember: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium” led by the exhibition curator, Bernard Loyd. events.uchicago.edu/event/272080-b…

Take a look at Special Collection's list of new archives, manuscripts, rare books, and digitized items added to their collection in June: lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/new…

Beverly A. Sperring, a longtime reference librarian at the University of Chicago Library, recently passed away after a period of illness. lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/bev…

There is still time to register for our AI for Research Primer workshop today at 2pm! Link below.

If you are a Ph.D. student planning to graduate in Summer 2026 come to our session this Wednesday, 7/23, for information about the procedures for submitting your dissertation. events.uchicago.edu/event/270141-f…

Join us on July 22 for a workshop: AI for Research Primer. In this online session, you’ll learn about the basics of what generative AI is, how it works, and some of its pitfalls and possibilities when it comes to research. Register: events.uchicago.edu/event/271277-a…

The Kim-Park program is excited to present a hands-on zine making workshop July 16. Learn about these easy-to-produce and often ephemeral works, and make your own zine to take with you. All workshop materials will be provided. events.uchicago.edu/event/269522-z…

Are you a Ph.D. student planning to graduate in Summer 2026? Come to our session for information about the procedures for submitting your dissertation tomorrow 7/14 at 2pm: events.uchicago.edu/event/270137-f…

The Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 John Crerar Science Writing Prize for College Students. Three students received prizes and one an honorable mention: lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/202… @UChicagoCollege

Great opportunity to preserve history!

Have important family documents that you want to preserve? Come to the Avalon Branch Library on July 15 to scan your materials. Staff from the University of Chicago Library will be there to assist. events.uchicago.edu/event/270198-s…

Tomorrow's workshop, Copyright & Permissions for Dissertations, will cover permissions basics affecting dissertations, what can/can't be included, third-party content, repository policies and embargoes, and Creative Commons licenses. events.uchicago.edu/event/270134-c…

How will AI use impact the future of scientific discovery? @profjamesevans spoke with @RunInfiniteLoop to explore how AI may limit the range of scientific topics researchers study, and what can be done to ensure AI scientists unlock more potential for discovery 🔗 👇️

The atomic age began at the @uchicago. Its questions endure. 📜 In the latest issue of LabLife, follow one Lab senior's journey from the @uchicagolibrary Special Collections to a @nationalhistory project → bit.ly/humanity-in-th… #UChicagoLab #LabLife #NationalHistoryDay

All campus libraries will be closed Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Summer hours will resume on Sunday, July 5. See hours.lib.uchicago.edu for a complete list of summer hours. lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/lib…

The June Emerging Technologies Update is available! This update covers New York's new model rule on attorneys' use of AI in court filings, a precedential Ninth Circuit opinion sanctioning two attorneys for AI-hallucinated briefs, and more. Read it here lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/jun…