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.
This month physicists are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground. They are deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab in Canada. A second 60-kilogram chamber will follow later this year.
Davisite and grossmanite were two of the first solids to form when an interstellar gas cloud collapsed to form the sun. Found in the Allende meteorite, they now carry the names of Andrew Davis and Lawrence Grossman, professors in geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.
As a child, Nora Tramm, a graduate student in physics, imagined herself becoming a paleontologist and digging up dinosaurs. She is instead conducting neurological research on the nematode C. elegans, a type of worm, at an astonishingly fast pace.
As an elementary school student, Nicole Tuttle thought science was all about answering multiple-choice questions from a textbook, not working with the yeast colonies, RNA molecules and X-ray films of her daily routine. A middle-school chemistry class changed all that.
Aspiring mathematician Robin Walters had one foot in the movie industry, the other in academia. Which way would he go? Toward Buzz Lightyear or toward quantum groups?
Children with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other language abilities, such as vocabulary, tend to catch up with other children as they mature.
The University of Chicago has joined the effort to build the world’s largest telescope in Chile, which will eclipse the image quality even of the Hubble Space Telescope, as the quest continues for answers to some the deepest mysteries of modern cosmology.
A foreign accent undermines a person’s credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don’t consciously realize, research shows. Because an accent makes a person harder to understand, listeners are less likely to find what the person says as truthful, researchers found. The problem of credibility increases with the severity of the accent.
The Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, Board of Directors announced today the reappointment of Piermaria Oddone to a second five-year term as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Paid sick leave is a benefit prized by American workers but frequently missing on the job — a situation that leads to serious consequences. A new study found about one in three working Americans does not have paid sick leave, and that nearly one in six people lost their job for taking time off to deal with a personal or family illness.
Government data shows that more than 40 million U.S. workers do not have paid sick days. How many have gone to work with a contagious illness? How many send sick children to school? The results of a new survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center that answers these and other pressing questions will be released at an audio news conference Monday.
The world is a cooler, wetter place because of flowering plants, according to new climate simulation results published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The effect is especially pronounced in the Amazon basin.
Fathers’ Day is something of an empty holiday in many urban communities where men are often disconnected from family life, but social workers can make a difference against those odds. African-American fathers in particular could benefit from the attention.
To remain relevant to the public, museums need to become more welcoming to minorities and provide more opportunities to interact with younger people, according to a report from the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. The Center for the Future of Museums, an initiative of the American Association of Museums, commissioned the report.
A grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation is funding fellowships to support first-year women graduate students in the physical sciences at the University of Chicago.
People who interview young children during for criminal investigations and other inquiries could elicit false information through their own gestures. The gestures the children make can also reveal important information that lawyers and police investigators may be missing by not paying attention to hand movements.,
Alison LaCroix’s new book delves into an underexplored area of history, shedding light on the nature of federalism, a system very important to the development of America. Given the ongoing debates about the framers’ original intent, understanding the true origins of federalism is especially significant.
A team of archaeologists is excavating a key site from the prehistoric society that formed the foundation of urban life in the ancient Middle East. The site already has yielded evidence of trade in obsidian, rich agricultural production and the development of copper processing — all of which flourished long before people invented the wheel.
In a paper to appear in the May issue of American Naturalist, paleontologists explore how the ecological information provided by fossil assemblages is determined by their process of accumulation.
Children with brain injuries may use gesture to signal they need help in developing language, research at the University of Chicago shows. The children who make the fewest gestures early in development also develop spoken vocabulary more slowly.
University of Chicago Geophysical Sciences Professor John Frederick is helping alumnus Jack Sheaffer to carry out an ambitious recycling project in Hammond, Ind., which involves harnessing treated effluent to irrigate and fertilize cropland and for a host of other income-generating activities.
University of Chicago scientists have successfully used geometrically patterned surfaces to influence the development of stem cells. The new approach is a departure from that of many stem-cell biologists, who focus instead on uncovering the role of proteins in controlling the fate of stem cells.
Chronic feelings of loneliness take a toll on blood pressure over time, causing a marked increase after four years. A new study shows, for the first time, a direct relation between loneliness and larger increases in blood pressure four years later—a link that is independent of age and other factors that could cause blood pressure to rise.
University of Chicago scientists are aiming to develop a method for determining how biological processes emerge from molecular interactions. The method may permit them to “rewire” the regulatory circuitry of insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells, which play a major role in type-2 diabetes.
Mixed-income housing developments, intended in part to reduce social isolation for public housing residents, don’t automatically lead to strong communities. While these developments appear to be successful in improving physical conditions and safety, the social environment is proving more challenging.
When it comes to meeting national health goals for physical activity, Mexican-Americans are the most active group in America and may benefit from exercise that researchers typically have not measured. The new research, which used electronic devices to measure people’s movement, challenges other studies that claimed whites are most active.
Niobium-based superconducting devices could lead to smaller, more efficient linear colliders.
Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.
Thanasis Economou's early fascination with the heavens led to a vital role in the study of the solar system at the University of Chicago. But his memories tugged at him again during a trip to Greece two years ago, and led him to propose building an astronomical observatory near his childhood home.
Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math. Boys’ math performance was not related to their teacher’s math anxiety.
Mathematician Ngô Bao Châu, who made one of Time magazine’s top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009, has accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago. Ngô will become a professor of mathematics, effective Sept. 1, 2010.
Providing a street-level perspective on welfare reform, a new study reveals a world of struggle for people living in Philadelphia row houses, where many residents contend with long histories of drug addiction and alcoholism and where their lives did not improve.
The University of Chicago and four partner universities have established a center for chemical innovation to pursue a broad range of similar research aimed at spurring innovation and economic competitiveness.
Leaders looking for ways to improve learning in urban schools can depend on five key factors which, when working together, have proven to boost student achievement, according to a landmark study that led to a new book, Organizing Schools for Improvement, Lessons from Chicago.
From Scotland’s Midland Valley to Wyoming’s Beartooth Butte to Grahamstown, South Africa, Michael Coates scours sediments hundreds of millions of years old for the deepest branches of vertebrate evolution in the tree of life’s shadowy recesses.
Research on communication in animals helps understand of how language develops in humans and how they use it. Language is a phenomenon of evolutionary biology.
A biblical expert at the University of Chicago, Margaret M. Mitchell, together with other experts has concluded that one of the University Library’s most enigmatic possessions, an alleged early version of the Book of Mark, is a forgery. The book will remain in the library for other scholars to use in studying the authenticity of ancient books.
Leading experts will discuss ways to improve survey design and data collection in developing economies when they meet Dec. 10-11 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for “Survey Design and Measurement in Development Economics,” a conference presented by the University of Chicago, the World Bank and Yale University.
Social isolation and related stress could contribute to human breast cancer susceptibility, research from a rat model designed to identify environmental mechanisms contributing to cancer risk shows. The research establishes, for the first time, that isolation and stress could be a factor in human breast cancer risk.
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