Americans grow happier as they grow older, according to one of the most thorough examinations of happiness in America. The study also found that baby boomers are not as content as other generations, African Americans are less happy than whites, men are less happy than women, happiness can rise and fall between eras, and that, with age the differences narrow.
Craig Hogan, a member of one of the scientific teams that co-discovered dark energy, will soon assume dual roles as Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and as a Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
International students considering this spring if they want to join the 500,000 other students from abroad already in the U.S., can get tips before they come in a new book on how adjust to academic demands and living situations that may require a new understanding of how to treat members of the opposite sex and how to as rent an apartment or buy a used car.
An international collaboration of medical and high-energy physicists will meet at a Thursday, March 27 workshop on the University of Chicago campus to further develop a common technology that would serve dramatically different purposes.
Some of the nation's leading economists have formed The Enterprise Initiative, based at the University of Chicago, to assemble data and develop models based on the role of enterprise in emerging economies. The models will be used to evaluate the impact of factors such as occupational choice, education and the availability of credit and insurance.
Researchers are studying possible connections between living in disadvantaged neighborhoods and the development of early onset breast cancer in a path-breaking project that is the first to use animal models to help determine what the biological factors might be behind the development of certain forms of breast cancer.
Tests on the influence that a stress-related hormone has on learning in ground squirrels could have an impact on understanding how it influences human learning. Researchers have found that when they perform normal survival tasks, ground squirrels learn more quickly if they have a modest amount of cortisol, a hormone produced in response to stress.
The same rules of physics that govern molecules as they condense from gas to liquid, or freeze from liquid to solid, also apply to the activity patterns of neurons in the human brain.
Two new 110 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in the Sahara Desert highlight the unusual meat-eaters that prowled southern continents during the Cretaceous Period.
The University of Chicago Library has acquired a 14th-century manuscript of what scholars have referred to as the 'most popular medieval love poem.' This acquisition also allowed the University to reunite the manuscript with its mate, with which it was bound until a century ago.
In honor of the 10th anniversary of its Martin Marty Center, the University of Chicago's Divinity School will host a two-day conference Feb. 5 and 6 which will bring together some of the world's leading scholars to discuss the myriad relationships between religion and the city.
Theoretical physicists at the University of Chicago are suggesting how thin spouts of magma in the Earth's mantle can persist long enough to form hotspot volcanism of the type that might have created the Hawaiian Islands.
The University of Chicago has received a $1.8 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to launch a new research program on the sudden and dramatic transformations that occur in processes where small-scale structural rearrangements result in rapid and far-reaching outcomes.
New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
Sex, as well as romance, is an important part of couple's lives and health well into their retirement years.
University of Chicago mathematician Carlos Kenig has been named a co-recipient of the 2008 Maxime Bôcher Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society for his work in the field of analysis. The AMS awarded the prize to Kenig at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 7.
Some instruments or components built in the University of Chicago machine shop now sit on the surface of the moon and Mars, while others fly through deep space on Voyager 1 and 2, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, and other spacecraft. They also occupy the inhospitable environment of Antarctica.
A little encouragement makes a big difference in people's motivation to give to a charity, but increasing the rate of return on a matching gift doesn't automatically boost giving, according to a study that also found that the political environment of a donor's state has a big impact on responses to donation requests.
Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
A 110 million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones was unveiled Thursday, Nov. 15, at the National Geographic Society.
The sprawling Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in South America has produced its first major discovery while still under construction. The international Auger collaboration has traced the rain of high-energy cosmic rays that continually pelts the Earth to the cores of nearby galaxies.
Job hunters and their partners interested in finding faculty, research, and executive and staff positions at Chicago area universities and research, medical and cultural institutions, can now look to one source for the information they need, the Greater Chicago Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.
Even a group of shellfish that appear to violate the overarching pattern of global biodiversity actually follows the same biological rules as other marine organisms, confirming a general theory for the spread of life on Earth.
Streams of granular particles bouncing off a target in a simple tabletop experiment produce liquid-like behavior also witnessed in a massive research apparatus that simulates the birth of the universe.
UChicagoTech, the University of Chicago's Office of Technology and Intellectual Property, has received a 2007 Deal of Distinction Award from the Licensing Executives Society of U.S.A. and Canada.
Inventories of living and dead organisms could serve as a relatively fast, simple and inexpensive preliminary means of assessing human impact on ecosystems. The University of Chicago's Susan Kidwell explains how measuring the degree of live-dead mismatch could be used as an ecological tool.
When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys, or more specifically, like rhesus macaques, a type of monkey that shares with humans strong tendencies for nepotism and political maneuvering, according to research at the University of Chicago.
A veteran teacher, administrator and education researcher is reviving interest in one of the classic stories of 20th-century education"”the experiences of disadvantaged schoolboys inspired to overcome discouragement and adversity by their teacher, who also was a priest in their remote Italian village.
If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid regions.
Physicians apparently learn to "shut off" the portion of their brain that helps them appreciate the pain their patients experience while treating them and instead activate a portion of the brain connected with controlling emotions. Because doctors sometimes have to inflict pain on their patients, they learn not be distracted by their suffering.
A $25 million commitment from the Neubauer Family Foundation to establish an innovative program to attract some of the nation's most outstanding young faculty to the University of Chicago has pushed the University's $2 billion capital campaign over its goal. The gift which will support tenure-track appointments with 20 faculty members.
On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American scientist, University of Chicago physicist Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931),
The National Institutes of Health is awarding separate research awards to four young University of Chicago scientists totaling $8 million to conduct promising but unconventional research that could lead to new medical treatments and a better understanding of the factors that contribute to problem adolescent behavior.
Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.
Although some people may spend part of the Labor Day weekend complaining about their bosses or about job burnout, most Americans are satisfied with their jobs, a new study shows. The study shows that 86 percent of the people interviewed between 1972 and 2006 said they were satisfied at the jobs. The survey found that job satisfaction increases with age.
Female rhesus monkeys use special vocalizations while interacting with infants, the way human adults use motherese, or "baby talk," to engage babies' attention. The "baby talk" also helps promotes rapport among monkey females, new research at the University of Chicago shows.
Although some people may spend part of the Labor Day weekend complaining about their bosses or about job burnout, most Americans are satisfied with their jobs, a new University of Chicago study shows.
The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $230,400 grant to the University of Chicago to support four one-year Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowships for women entering Ph.D. programs in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics as early as the 2008-09 academic year.
The abundant diversity of characteristics within species likely helped fuel the proliferation and evolution of an odd-looking creature that emerged from an unprecedented explosion of life on Earth more than 500 million years ago.
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just 50 atoms in thickness.
The Graham School of General Studies at the University of Chicago announces the start of its 2007-2008 certificate in Leadership Arts program to provide students with the skills, confidence and knowledge base critical to help them lead and inspire others.
The Graham School of General Studies at the University of Chicago announces the introduction of a certificate program in Diversity Management, to help organizations understand the forces at work in today's diverse workplace.
Westerners, such as Americans, are particularly challenged to understand someone else's point of view because they are part of a culture that encourages individualism. In contrast, Chinese, who live in a society that encourages a collectivist attitude among its members, are much more adept at determining another person's perspective.
Researchers taking an avid interest in computational resources are no longer limited to the physical sciences. Scholars in the biological sciences, social sciences or the humanities today also seek to expand their computational resources.
Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing center along the middle Nile and a cemetery that show the first sub-Saharan kingdom controlled more territory than previously thought. The remains of the kingdom of Kush (1500-200 BC) are being covered, however, by the rising waters from a newly built dam.
For the first time, a text has been found in Old Persian language that shows the written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display. The text is inscribed on a damaged clay tablet from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, now at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
Clay Research Prize recipient Alex Eskin has produced the numerical equivalent of a stirring poem or a melodic symphony.
Despite previous research findings that showed negative health impacts on grandmothers who care for their grandchildren, new research shows caring for grandchildren generally does not have dramatic and widespread negative impacts on grandparents' health.
A popular stereotype that boys are better at mathematics than girls undermines girls' math performance because it causes worrying that erodes the mental resources needed for problem solving. Researchers show for the first time that this threat to performance caused by stereotyping can also hinder success in other, unrelated academic areas.
Physicists are developing new electronics for identifying subatomic particles in high-energy accelerators that may also enable radiologists to detect cancer at an earlier, more curable stage.
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