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Grads earn high marks from Teach For America

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:00:00 CDT

This fall 19 members of the University's Class of 2009 will join Teach For America, making Chicago one of the largest contributors to the program among schools its size. Teach For America employs more graduating College fourth-years than any organization, except ...

Chemist Greg Engel named outstanding early-career scientist

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:00:00 CDT

President Obama has named Greg Engel, assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, among the 100 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The Presidential Early Career Award is the highest honor bestowed by ...

University launches neighborhood mapping project

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:00 CDT

University of Chicago researchers and local residents have fanned out into six South Side neighborhoods to begin gathering information for the first detailed maps of all of the area’s resources, businesses, public agencies, churches, social service organizations ...

Milton Ehre, Russian literature expert, 1933-2009

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Milton Ehre, an authority on 19th-century Russian drama and Professor Emeritus in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, died Tuesday, June 30 at Rush Oak Park Hospital. Ehre, 76, was a resident of River Forest. Ehre joined the Chicago facu ...

Direct Deposit Now Available for Student Refunds

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:00 CDT

University of Chicago students will benefit from a new direct deposit option for student refunds, effective July 6. The Office of the Bursar will offer students the option of direct deposit for refunds of financial aid or student loan payments that exceed the amou ...

Janet Rowley awarded Gruber Genetics Prize for cancer research

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Janet Rowley, a founder in the field of cancer cytogenetics and a leader in molecular oncology, will receive the 2009 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for her research on recurrent chromosomal abnormalities in leukemias and lymphomas—dis ...

Design fosters innovation at Knapp Center

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

With the opening this month of the $244 million Gwen and Jules Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, scientists at the University of Chicago have gained a facility designed to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and research flexibility. The glass-walled stru ...

Astronomer Michael Gladders named 2009 Cottrell Scholar

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement has named the University of Chicago's Michael Gladders a 2009 Cottrell Scholar. Each of the 10 new Cottrell Scholars will receive a $100,000 grant. Cottrell award recipients are chosen both for the quality of their ...

Chemist Greg Engel named 2009 Searle Scholar

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Greg Engel, Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of Chicago, is one of 15 scientists nationwide who has been named a 2009 Searle Scholar. The honor carries $300,000 in support of Engel's research over the next three years. This year, 178 applications ...

O'Hare Airport exhibit provides portal to cosmos

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Visitors to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this summer may find themselves taking an unplanned "journey" into the cosmos. "From Earth to the Universe," an exhibit of 56 astronomical images, is on display through the end of the year at O'Hare. Scientists at ...

John W. Rogers Jr., business and education leader, named chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools board

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Alumnus, longtime trustee and education champion John W. Rogers Jr. will be the next chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Board of Trustees, University President Robert J. Zimmer has announced. Rogers, who graduated from Lab in 1976 and watched hi ...

Gala celebrates a century of social service

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Hundreds of friends, faculty members and civic leaders gathered June 4 in the grand ballroom of the Palmer House Hilton to salute the centennial of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The celebration included performances by children ...

More than half of CPS teachers leave their schools within five years; African American schools hit hardest

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

About 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children, according to a study released Monday ...

Project Exploration offers mammoth-scale summer learning experience

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Project Exploration is deploying Chicago Public School students into Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota this summer to conduct field studies alongside working scientists. "People are trying to figure out how to get kids engaged in science in a way that's really go ...

Vitamin-A derivative provides clues to better breast cancer drugs

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, could lead researchers to a new set of drug targets for treating breast cancer, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the June 26, 2009, issue of the journal Cell. The most common forms of breast cancer are ...