A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time.
As China and the United States engage in a dispute over China’s recent proclamation of a new “air defense identification zone,” University of Chicago scholars say the clash illustrates the increasingly complicated geopolitical pressures between these two major powers.
Physicists at the University of Chicago and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, are uncovering the fundamental physical laws that govern the behavior of cellular materials.
South Pole Telescope scientists have detected for the first time a subtle distortion in the oldest light in the universe, which may help reveal secrets about the earliest moments in the universe’s formation.
The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering will offer its first undergraduate course in the autumn 2014 quarter as part of a newly available minor in molecular engineering.
David Biron's research group at the University of Chicago studies the behavior of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans in the hopes of shedding light on the function and evolutionary origins of animal behaviors such as locomotion, feeding and sleep.
Playwright/actress Anna Deavere Smith and cellist Joshua Roman will spend three weeks in residency at UChicago and present a public work-in-progress performance of "On Grace" at the Harris Theater Jan. 21.
A Chicago-based consortium led by Northwestern University has been awarded $25 million over five years from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, to establish a new center of excellence for advanced materials research.
Michael Greenstone, an international leader in energy and environmental economics, has been appointed Professor of Economics and Director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at Chicago. At EPIC, a joint project of the Booth School of Business, the Department of Economics, and the Harris School of Public Policy, Greenstone will lead a growing research and training effort with a focus on the economic and social consequences of energy policies. His appointment will start July 1, 2014.
The University is making a major investment in supporting graduate students, fellows and the faculty in their work as teachers, with a new director for the expanded Center for Teaching Excellence.
The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering is adding four prominent senior faculty members who develop advanced technologies that address some of society’s most challenging questions, including cancer bioengineering, water resources, and quantum computing and quantum materials.
Cornelia Grumman, a national leader in education policy advocacy and communication, has been named Director of Policy and Strategic Communications at the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute (UEI).
When New York City moved in 2006 to make it easier for transgender people to revise the gender on their birth certificates, the proposal was widely expected to pass. But the anti-discrimination measure failed. An analysis of mainstream news coverage examines why.
From Nov. 7 to 9, distinguished scholars and novelists A.S. Byatt and Tom McCarthy will come together at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts to examine four of the most enduring novels in the English language: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Henry James’ The Golden Bowl, and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Three generations of University of Chicago physicists have spent decades painstakingly cataloging the characteristics of a family of exotic particles called kaons, and an upcoming experiment promises to be the most precise one yet.
A University of Chicago professor in law and medicine is helping the nation of India assess the results of a massive health reform program targeting its poorest populations, as the government considers whether to extend the five-year-old effort.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, leading philosophers and educators from around the country will come together at the University of Chicago for talks, panel discussions and demonstrations highlighting the importance of fostering philosophy at the K–12 level. Participants will learn about the state of pre-collegiate philosophy in the United States, with representatives from various pre-collegiate philosophy programs discussing their work. They will also learn how their schools or school systems can easily implement philosophy programs.
Economists gave imaginative tests to people outside the laboratory to determine how they respond in real world setting to incentives and then compared those results with the ways people respond when they don’t have the same incentives.
The University of Chicago is expanding efforts to help students explore careers in journalism, arts and the media through the creation of a new Career Advancement program that will help them navigate the fast-evolving worlds of entertainment, publishing, multimedia and other arts-related fields.
The University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life initiative, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, has selected three artists for its 2013–14 artist-in-residence program. The new artists-in-residence are musician and composer David Boykin; poet and visual artist Krista Franklin; and artist, designer and educator Andres Hernandez.
Two leading scholars from Cambridge University and Hebrew University have been appointed to the Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago.
The UChicago Promise program’s first year attracted a number of accomplished young Chicagoans to an already impressive incoming class of students in the College at the University of Chicago. The Class of 2017 includes 59 percent more students from the city of Chicago.
A new research networking portal designed exclusively for female scientists and engineers to provide crucial career development exposure within Chicagoland’s research community, was launched today as part of the Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM professional development program.
New research to be published this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows, for the first time, that this measurement of seasonal time has an epigenetic component.
Robin Appleby, an educator who has led high-achieving schools on three continents, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, effective July 1, 2014.
A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines advanced ink-jet printing technology with self-assembling block copolymers.
South African artist William Kentridge, who has earned international acclaim for a versatile body of work that includes animated films, prints, drawings, and opera, will deliver a lecture to launch the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago on Oct. 3. The free event, which takes place at 6 p.m. in Mandel Hall, will feature special appearances by members of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center.
For more than two weeks in July, the Chicago Public Schools /University of Chicago Internet Project (CUIP) staged a program aimed at helping students pursue studies in astronomy and related fields.
Ronald H. Coase helped create the field of law and economics, through groundbreaking scholarship that earned him the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and through his far-reaching influence as a journal editor.
Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber at the University of Chicago.
A new exhibition at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, composed of 24 portraits by Chicago photographer Jason Reblando, allows viewers to contemplate the role of work and demonstrates how much the ancient Middle East influenced modern-day culture.
Readers will glean hundreds of surprising pieces of information from How We Do It, a new book by Robert Martin of the University of Chicago and the Field Museum.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded an International Predoctoral Student Research Fellowship to Miao Yu, a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Chicago. Yu is one of 42 international predoctoral students to receive the fellowship this year.
The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has named a director for its water research initiative. Steven Sibener, the Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, will serve as the initiative’s director for a two-year term.
Dolphins can recognize their old tank mates’ whistles after being separated for more than 20 years — the longest social memory ever recorded for a non-human species.
Bryan Samuels of the Department of Health and Human Services will join the Chapin Hall Center for Children as executive director.
Prof. William G. Howell hopes to focus the national conversation about the American presidency in his new book, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power.
The University of Chicago’s Ngô Bao Châu and Dam Thanh Son are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have been selected as 2013 Simons Investigators.
Studio Gang Architects, led by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, has been selected to design a major new residence hall and dining commons on the north end of the University of Chicago campus, officials announced.
A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. At issue is how numerous small, glassy spherules had become embedded within specimens of the largest class of meteorites—the chondrites.
A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe.
The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at the University of Chicago shows. By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research.
The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will begin funding a series of ambitious research collaborations that apply the latest in nanotechnology to create new materials and processes for making clean, fresh drinking water more plentiful and less expensive by 2020.
Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada’s TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, has been selected to become the next director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
The University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. have agreed to form an affiliation that will strengthen both institutions’ missions of leadership and innovation in scientific research and education.
The University of Chicago has received a $3.5 million gift from anonymous donors to support a new intellectual enterprise that will be named the Leo Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics.
People who think they have perfect pitch may not be as in tune as they think, according to a new study in which people failed to notice a gradual change in pitch while listening to music. When tested afterward, people said notes that were in tune at the beginning sounded out of tune.
New research sheds light on how the tropics came to be teeming with species while the poles harbor relatively few. Furthermore, it confirms that the tropics have been and continue to be the Earth’s engine of biodiversity.
A team of researchers including members of the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering highlight the power of emerging quantum technologies in two recent papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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