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Event highlights growth of human rights programs in liberal arts education

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

The University of Chicago is leading a nationwide movement among colleges and universities to integrate human rights teaching and research into liberal arts curriculum. This week, the University is hosting a Human Rights Teaching Roundtable, to review progress i ...

University of Chicago takes third consecutive Romer Prize in paleontology

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Christian Kammerer extended the University of Chicago’s winning streak for the Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize to three in a row at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology last month in Bristol, England. The SVP awards the prize annually to ...

Human capital central to emerging economic analysis of education

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Human capital, a leading approach used to understand the role of education and job training in the economy, has been the subject of seminal research at the University of Chicago. On Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21, scholars from around the world will gather f ...

BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc, PancakeCroc

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth-like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named speci ...

Albert V. Crewe, physicist, 1927-2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Albert V. Crewe, who obtained the first images of atoms ever taken in an electron microscope, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, of complications from Parkinson’s disease at his home in Dune Acres, Ind. He was 82. In 1964 Crewe, a professor emeritus in physics at the ...

University of Chicago and non-profit organizations team up to reduce youth gun violence, improve school outcomes in Chicago

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

In an effort to combat violence involving Chicago public school students, the University of Chicago Crime Lab and community partners will launch a new program designed to help hundreds of boys avoid conflict and succeed in school and life. The University of Chicag ...

Grant to help recruit collaborations for Blue Waters supercomputer

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

The University of Chicago has received a $91,000 grant to help research collaborators across the nation prepare their proposals for petascale computing projects on Blue Waters, which is expected to be the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open scientifi ...

Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago’s Hannah Alpert

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman. Alpert will receive the award in J ...

Common pain relief medication may influence cancer growth

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells. Two new studies advance that ...

New initiative highlights research sponsored by Recovery Act

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Academic leaders and elected officials on Tuesday, Nov. 17 announced the launch of ScienceWorksForUs, an initiative that will highlight scientific research and related activities made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The centerpiec ...

FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing. “FutureGrid is a very exciting project; we do have production resourc ...

Clinic law students help reduce client’s long sentence by half

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

This past July, recent Law School graduates Brynn Lyerly and Stephanie Holmes sat in a Chicago courtroom as their client listened to a federal judge reduce a 22–year drug crime sentence to 10 years, a huge victory for the legal team. During the preceding schoo ...

Bears QB Jay Cutler to meet with teens affected by diabetes at University of Chicago Kovler Diabetes Center on World Diabetes Day

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will visit the University of Chicago's Kovler Diabetes Center on World Diabetes Day--Saturday, November 14--from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to share his experience with diabetes with teens affected by the disease and tour some of the worl ...

Obama election strategist to provide look inside 2008 campaign during lecture

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

For two years David Plouffe worked side by side with Barack Obama, charting the course of his 2008 presidential bid as his chief campaign manager. Plouffe will share his insights and lessons from the campaign as part of the International House Global Voices Auth ...

New Web site gives black youth a voice

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT

The Black Youth Project has launched its new Web site, http://www.blackyouthproject.com, a place online where young black people can speak for themselves. Most of the bloggers and researchers on the project are associated with the University of Chicago. “While ...