Ed Awh and Ed Vogel, two leading scholars whose joint research focuses on visual cognition and working memory, joined the University of Chicago's growing neuroscience and cellular science faculty in fall 2015.
The University of Chicago’s Wendy Freedman will receive the 2016 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
Lloyd Rudolph, professor emeritus of political science, died Jan. 16, in Oakland, Calif. of prostate cancer. He was 88. He had a long and distinguished career at UChicago, almost entirely in collaboration with his wife, Prof. Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, who died in December 2015.
The University of Chicago has appointed prominent data science scholar Michael Franklin to chair its Department of Computer Science and to serve as senior advisor to the provost on computation and data science.
An index card containing personal finance advice that went viral online has inspired a new book by Prof. Harold Pollack and financial journalist Helaine Olen. Titled The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to be Complicated, the book will go on sale Jan. 5.
Since the start of 2015, Fermi Research Alliance LLC, a partnership between the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association, has appointed several distinguished new members to its board of directors.
The University’s Departmental Histories Fellowship Program challenged graduate students to research and document the histories of 17 of UChicago’s 87 academic units, as part of the University's 125th anniversary celebration.
Nearly half of all University of Chicago undergraduates who participated in the Jeff Metcalf Internship Program this year have reported receiving return offers from their employers for either an internship next summer or a full-time job after graduation.
60 years after graduating from the University of Chicago, celebrated composer Philip Glass will return to campus as a UChicago Presidential Arts Fellow Feb. 17-19, 2016 for a three-day residency featuring a film screening, public conversation, and a sold-out concert at Mandel Hall.
The University of Chicago’s Department of Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Engineering have jointly appointed Jiwoong Park as a faculty member. He will start the position on July 1, 2016.
A new UChicago study will bring together political scientists, neuroscientists and psychologists to examine the neurological processes that create sympathy toward extremist groups, in an effort to determine how cultures of martyrdom mobilize support for violence, especially suicide attacks.
Advances in nanolensing would make possible extremely high-resolution imaging or biological sensing.
Young men’s interest in babies is specifically associated with their physiological reactivity to sexually explicit material, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Understanding how people learn, and developing real-world learning tools — especially for children from high poverty communities, who tend to underperform in school — is the goal of the new University of Chicago Science of Learning Center. The overarching goal of the center is bring cutting edge research findings to bear on real world learning problems.
Chicago and many other cities around the world have turned to mixed-income housing as a strategy to provide housing for low-income people. That approach received a closer look in a new book that examines public housing transformation in Chicago.
Researchers in David Awschalom’s group at the University of Chicago have demonstrated that macroscopic entanglement can be generated at room temperature and in a small magnetic field.
Biomedical informatics, one of the world’s fastest-growing interdisciplinary fields, is the latest graduate degree program offered by the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.
An accomplished software architect, Adam Gerber focuses primarily on software engineering for enterprise Java and Android development. Recently, he co-authored a programming how-to book, Learn Android Studio: Build Android Apps Quickly and Effectively
CHICAGO – Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will visit the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy’s Women in Public Leadership (WIPL) program, Rebecca Sive, the program’s academic director, announced today.
Children from religious families were less likely to share with others than were children from non-religious families. A religious upbringing also was associated with more punitive tendencies in response to anti-social behavior.
The University of Chicago's newly launched Graduate Global Impact internship program offers short-term internship and externship opportunities to graduate students and postdocs.
Theoretical physicist Leo Kadanoff, who transformed theory and practice across scientific disciplines, died of respiratory failure on Oct. 26 in Chicago. He was 78.
An inexpensive method for generating clean fuel is the modern-day equivalent of the philosopher’s stone. One compelling but challenging idea is to use solar energy to split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen and then harvest the hydrogen for use as fuel.
Iconic French filmmaker Agnes Varda reflected on her career during a week in residence at UChicago, where she delivered lectures and participated in public conversations about her films.
More than 2,000 students from grades 7 through 12 have participated in the Young Scholars Program since its founding at the University of Chicago in 1988.
Office workers who are fed up with sitting down can now discreetly work out at their desks thanks to University of Chicago alumnus Arnav Dalmia’s invention, Cubii. A smart under-the-desk elliptical, Cubii is being launched in connection with Chicago Ideas Week, Oct. 12 to 18.
UChicago’s Class of 2019 represents a roughly 40 percent increase in the number of students who are the first in their families to pursue higher education—an all-time high. The University is doing more than ever to support those students’ success throughout their time in the College.
Prof. Emeritus Raghavan Narasimhan, known for his analytical prowess in a distinguished career of more than four decades on the UChicago mathematics faculty, died Oct. 3 at Bernard Mitchell Hospital after a brief illness. He was 78.
Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, will be the guest speaker at the kick-off of the University of Chicago’s inaugural Women in Public Leadership (WIPL) program on Nov. 16.
Timothy Knowles, the Pritzker Director of UChicago Urban Labs, announced on Oct. 12 the winners of $2.15 million in Innovation Challenge grants from the UChicago Health, Poverty and Energy & Environment Labs. The winners have proposed innovative solutions to challenging urban policy problems.
A new research project at the University of Chicago and University of South Carolina will bring together scholars from different fields to study the factors that bring about deep happiness and a sense of meaning in one’s life.
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the Pennsylvania State University have accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of materials called topological insulators.
Thomas J. Miles, a leading scholar of criminal justice and judicial behavior and an expert in a wide range of contemporary issues such as race and immigration enforcement, has been appointed the next dean of the University of Chicago Law School.
A new exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago will give visitors a rare glimpse inside the ancient city of Persepolis. “Persepolis: Images of an Empire,” which opens Oct. 13, includes archival photographs and a new multi-media presentation that document an astounding imperial complex of palaces constructed by the Persian kings Darius, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes I and III, who ruled between 522 and 338 BC in today’s southwest Iran.
Physicists have wondered in recent years if they could control how atoms interact using light. Now they know that they can, by demonstrating games of quantum billiards with unusual new rules.
The University of Chicago has received a $100 million gift to establish the first research institute and annual global forum of their kind devoted solely to the study and resolution of global conflicts. The landmark gift from The Thomas L. Pearson and The Pearson Family Members Foundation is equal in size to the second-largest gift in the University’s history.
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering are putting liquid crystals to work as detectors for the protein fibers implicated in the development of neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Northwestern University and the University of Chicago have received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a collaborative venture in nanoscale science, engineering and technology research.
A new study of more than 500 Black and Latino college students has confirmed that many encounter obstacles after enrolling in college without adequate financial resources.
When Juan de Pablo and his collaborators set about to explain unusual peaks in what should have been featureless optical data, they thought there was a problem in their calculations. In fact, what they were seeing was real. Their experiments had produced a new kind of glass.
Babies’ neural responses to morally charged scenarios are influenced by their parents’ attitudes toward justice, new research from the University of Chicago shows.
Amy Apfel Kass, AB'62, senior lecturer emeritus in humanities, died on Aug. 19 at her home in Washington, D.C., after a 10-year battle with ovarian cancer and a short battle with leukemia. She was 74.
Sunil Kumar has been appointed dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for a second five-year term,
A team of researchers led by UChicago psychologists Sian Beilock and Susan Levine found that children of math-anxious parents learned less math over the school year and were more likely to be math-anxious themselves—but only when these parents provided frequent help on the child’s math homework.
University of Chicago students and alums have created BallotReady, a free online and mobile voter guide. The project, which started last year, provides tailored, easy-to-digest information on candidates and referendums listed on local ballots.
Jackson, the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Education, Psychology and the College, died July 21 due to complications from cancer. He was 86.
Physicists have directly observed, for the first time, how highly charged dust-sized particles attract and capture others to build up clusters particle by particle. This process can lead to the formation of “granular molecules” whose configurations resemble those of simple chemical molecules.
University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Yoichiro Nambu, who received a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory about the workings of the subatomic world, died July 5 in Osaka, after an acute heart attack. He was 94.
University of Chicago paleontologist David Raup, an innovative authority on evolution and mass extinctions, died of pneumonia July 9 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisc. He was 82.
Current climate models do not accurately account for humans’ role in changing the environment, according to a University of Chicago-led team of international researchers embarking upon a project to help climate scientists better document land cover and use over the past 10,000 years.
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