UChicago News

UChicago to honor historian Black, theater director Bogart at Convocation

Becky Wood — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:50 -0500

The University will award the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service to historian and activist Timuel Black and the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts to Anne Bogart, avant-garde theater director and theorist, on Saturday, June 9 at UChicago’s 511th Convocation.

In support of Timuel Black’s selection, one of his nominators wrote: “...

University to bestow honorary degrees on three distinguished scholars

William Harms — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:21 -0500

The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to an astronomer, a historian, and a biologist during the 511th Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, June 9 on the Main Quadrangle.

The honorary degree recipients are Geoffrey W. Marcy, an astronomer and exoplanet expert and professor of astronomy and director of the Center for Integrative Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley; Jean Meyer Barth, a scholar of Mexican history and professor of history at Centro...

Four UChicago scholars receive Guggenheim fellowships

Allan Friedman — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:52 -0500

Four UChicago scholars—Alison Bechdel, John H. Cochrane, Adrian Johns, and Don Kulick—have been named 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows. They are among 181 diverse scholars, artists and scientists selected this year in the 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada.

Chosen from a group of almost 3,000 candidates, the recipients have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the...

Modern Language Association honors three Humanities faculty members

Susie Allen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:58 -0500

The Modern Language Association will honor three University of Chicago faculty members for their recent publications. The MLA will present awards to Michael Bourdaghs, Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel on Saturday, Jan. 7.

Bourdaghs, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, will receive the Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature. Bourdaghs and his co-editors, Atsuko Ueda of Princeton University and Joseph A. Murphy of the...

Linguistics faculty, graduate students receive key honors

Susie Allen — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:14 -0500

Graduate students and faculty in the Department of Linguistics have received key honors in their field.

John Goldsmith, Chair of Computer Science and the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences Collegiate Division and the Humanities, was chosen as Chair-Elect of the Linguistics and Language Sciences section of the American Association for the...

Bellow, Terkel inducted into inaugural class of Chicago Literary Hall of Fame

Susie Allen — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:59 -0500

Two celebrated writers with University of Chicago ties were inducted into the inaugural class of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame on Saturday, Nov. 20. Professor Emeritus Saul Bellow, X’39, and Studs Terkel AB’32, JD’34, were honored alongside Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, and Richard Wright.

The Chicago Writers Association sponsored the induction ceremony, which featured appearances by Sara Paretsky, AM’69, MBA’77, PhD...

Two UChicago students awarded Marshall Scholarships

Sara Olkon — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:48 -0500

Two University of Chicago students have been awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarships for graduate study in the United Kingdom.

The recipients are Matthew Jones, a biological sciences and Germanic studies major from the Class of 2011, and Ben Umans, who graduated with the Class of 2010 with a degree in biological sciences and economics.

In all, five University students this year have received one of the major competitive scholarships for study in the United Kingdom...

Zagajewski earns European Poetry Prize

William Harms — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:54 -0500

Adam Zagajewski, a visiting professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and a prominent Polish poet and essayist, has received the European Poetry Prize, awarded biannually by the Cassamarca Foundation in northern Italy.

Zagajewski’s poem “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” published in The New Yorker’s...

Alumni Award winners span varied careers and achievements, from economics to medicine to winemaking

Fri, 14 May 2010 12:00 -0500

Nobel Prize–winning economist Gary Becker will receive the Alumni Medal, the highest honor the Alumni Association can bestow, while 16 other distinguished alumni will receive awards in a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 5 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.

The University’s Alumni Board of Governors invites all alumni, faculty, students, parents and friends to attend the event, which recognizes alumni and faculty who have made exceptional contributions to...