Matthew Tirrell, a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, has been appointed founding Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s new Institute for Molecular Engineering, effective July 1.
Students in high schools and colleges around the country can get a much richer look at the history and culture of the Middle East through a new online resource, “Teaching the Middle East,” which covers topics ranging from prehistory through the development of modern states.
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Ohio State University will use a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the implementation, spread and sustainability of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics schools in Ohio.
Cost-effectiveness analysis should play a bigger role in the American health care system, argued a University of Chicago researcher Friday at annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago is leading a new multi-institutional, interdisciplinary center to build tools to help governments, the private sector and individuals make better-informed decisions relating to both climate and energy policies and climate change.
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine’s Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.
The University of Chicago has received a $50,000 grant to help fund a green roof atop the new Chicago Theological Seminary building, now under construction at 1407 E. 60th St.
The Giant Magellan Telescope board of directors has appointed Richard Kron, Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, as chair of the GMT Science Advisory Committee, effective immediately.
The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metaknowledge—the study of knowledge itself.
The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust has renewed its funding commitment to the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, a collaboration of Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
Language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. A study of deaf people in Nicaragua who never learned sign language showed that people who communicate using self-developed gestures, were unable to comprehend the value of numbers greater than three because they had not learned a language containing symbols used for counting.
New experiments show that common scientific rules can apply to significantly different phenomena operating on vastly different scales. The results raise the possibility of making discoveries pertaining to phenomena that would be too large or impractical to recreate in the laboratory.
Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins.
Women in Congress deliver more federal projects to their home districts than men do, even when controlling for such factors as party affiliation and ideology. Congresswomen also sponsor and co–sponsor more legislation than their male counterparts, the authors found. The study has recently been accepted for publication at the American Journal of Political Science.
Married people may think they communicate well with their partners, but psychologists have found that they don’t always convey messages to their loved ones as well as they think — and in some cases, the spouses communicate no better than strangers. The same communication problem also is true with close friends.
The Urban Health Initiative of the University of Chicago Medical Center has provided a $50,000 grant to the first CommunityHealth Englewood Clinic to support area residents in need of health care services.
Men are more likely than women to seek jobs in which competition with coworkers affects pay rates, a preference that might help explain persistent pay differences between men and women. But in cities where local wages are generally lower, women tend to want jobs in which competition determines wages, the study showed.
Students can combat test anxiety and improve performance by writing about their worries immediately before the exam begins, according to study published in the journal Science. Researchers found that students who were prone to test anxiety improved their test scores by nearly one grade point after they were given 10 minutes to write about their worries.
A team of paleontologists and geologists from Argentina and the United States on Jan. 13 announced the discovery of a lanky dinosaur that roamed South America in search of prey as the age of dinosaurs began, about 230 million years ago. Sporting a long neck and tail and weighing only 10 to 15 pounds, the dinosaur has been named Eodromaeus, the “dawn runner.”
The University of Chicago received $512 million in sponsored research funding and 2,528 awards in fiscal year 2010, surpassing previous-year funding by 8.5 percent. Sixty-three awards were for more than $I million.
The University of Chicago next September will begin construction of the William Eckhardt Research Center, an architecturally innovative building that will host a broad spectrum of 21st-century science.
New research finds that owning a DVR does not influence the demand for advertised products despite its ad-skipping feature. In fact, only a small percentage of ads were fast-forwarded by DVR users who participated in the study, and even that did not have an adverse effect on sales.
Scholars are establishing a new professional organization, the Society for Social Neuroscience, to advance an emerging interdisciplinary field. Research in social neuroscience is based on the use of new technologies, advanced understanding of genetics and other research, including studies on animal behavior.
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Experiences with violence cause teens to adopt a range of coping strategies, with notable impact whether the violence takes place at home, among friends or during police incidents, They seek out non-violent friends, avoid trouble, become resigned to the situation, strive to do well in school, or for some, retaliating physically.
Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for making stars and for understanding how primordial diffuse gas clouds assemble themselves into full-blown galaxies.
The Globus team is pleased to announce the general availability of Globus Online, a cloud-hosted high-performance, secure file transfer service. Globus Online makes the grid easy to use by eliminating the need for complex, custom IT infrastructure to manage large-scale data movement tasks.
A new paper based on work among poor families in Thailand shows that households who used their existing assets most productively were more successful at pulling themselves out of poverty. Many of the successful households reinvested their money in their small businesses and farms, suggesting that they are well aware of the source of their success.
Scientists have observed, for the first time, an intermediate stage in the chemical process that repairs DNA methylation damage and regulates many important biological functions that impact health conditions such as obesity, cancer and diabetes.
The amount of time parents spend talking about numbers has a much bigger impact on how young children learn mathematics than was previously known. Children whose parents talked more about numbers were much more likely to understand the number principle that the size of a set of objects is determined by the last number reached when counting the set.
The University of Chicago Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory announces the introduction of Beagle, a 150 teraflops, 18,000-core Cray XE6 supercomputer that will support computation, simulation and data analysis for the biomedical research community.
People feel worse about a transgression that will take place in the future than an identical one that occurred in the past, according to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Many of the assumptions people have about black youth—that they are politically detached and negatively influenced by rap music and videos—are false stereotypes, according to a new study. Black youth say they are politically involved, critical of many messages in rap and skeptical of the idea that the country has entered a post-racial era.
As the nation prepares for an important mid-term election, the University of Chicago is releasing results of a survey of attitudes among black, white and Hispanic young people.
This week Sara ElShafie will give a talk in Pittsburgh at the 2010 annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology as sole author of her paper — a rare honor for an undergraduate.
Poverty has grown in America’s suburbs during the recent economic downturn, but poor people in many suburban communities are finding it hard to get the help they need. Poverty rates grew quickly in the suburbs of the largest metropolitan areas during the 2000s, and by 2008, the number of suburban poor exceeded the number of city poor by 1.5 million.
To put an end to suicide bombings, the United States needs a new strategy that would reposition troops and work with local allies to boost their fighting capacity. Despite a popular belief that suicide terrorism is the result of religious fanaticism, such bombings are really a calculated response to occupations by outsiders, according to new research.
Exhibition combines majestic sixth-century Chinese Buddhist sculptures with digital components to reconstruct and contextualize damaged cave temples.
A star golfer misses a critical putt; a brilliant student fails to ace a test; a savvy salesperson blows a key presentation. Each of these people has suffered the same bump in mental processing: They have choked. It’s tempting to dismiss such failures as “just nerves.” But to a psychologist, they are preventable results of information logjams in the brain.
The Clean Energy Trust has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help transfer research from the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and other Illinois universities and science labs into clean-energy technologies and viable businesses.
Two groups of scientists who rarely get together will jointly consider the technological future of nanoscale materials in a workshop that will meet at the University of Chicago’s Kersten Physics Teaching Center from Sept. 16-18.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.1 million grant to a team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory to develop a technology for studying the link between human health and disease and the microorganisms that reside in or on the human body.
Scientists have identified the microscopic shrapnel of a nearby star that exploded just before or during the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
The United States workforce, battered by an economic slowdown, now includes a record number of workers who are involuntarily working part-time due to reduced hours or the inability to find a full-time job. Hourly workers are especially susceptible to reduced, irregular and fluctuating hours, and the myriad of challenges associated with them.
More than eight of ten workers — 85 percent — rate workplace safety first in importance among labor standards, even ahead of family and maternity leave, minimum wage, paid sick days, overtime pay and the right to join a union, according to a new study.
Among disadvantaged people in the United States, the most needy and least helped are probably African-American men, who suffer in a variety of ways, including being stereotyped as reckless and having little regard for their children. They are also disadvantaged because changes in the economy have depleted the number of well-paying, manual labor jobs.
The University of Chicago’s new center in Beijing will host its first academic conference, on novel quantum states in condensed matter, from Sept. 1 to 3.
Ngô Bao Châu, who will join the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago on Sept. 1, has received the Fields Medal, the International Congress of Mathematicians announced Monday in Hyderabad, India.
Being married has often been associated with improving people’s health, but a new study suggests that having that long-term bond also alters hormones in a way that reduces stress. Unmarried people in a committed, romantic relationship show the same reduced responses to stress as do married people.
This September a select group of professionals will begin training at the University of Chicago to fill an emerging position in the U.S. workforce: sustainability director. The professionals have enrolled in the Leadership in Sustainability Management Certificate Program.
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