UChicago News

UChicago Press awards Laing Prize to Adrian Johns for book 'Piracy'

William Harms — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:20 -0500

The University of Chicago Press has awarded the 2012 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Adrian Johns, the Allan Grant Maclear Professor in History and chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, for his book, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates....

Eight UChicago faculty members named American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows

Allan Friedman — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:26 -0500

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced its 2012 class of fellows on Tuesday, April 17. Eight University of Chicago faculty members have been elected to the Academy and are among 220 new fellows. The newly elected members are:

Marianne Bertrand, the Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics and the Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Martha Feldman, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of...

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...

Fourth-year basketball players Johnson, Simpson named academic all-Americans

Dave Hilbert — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:34 -0500

University of Chicago fourth-years Matt Johnson and Taylor Simpson have been named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America NCAA Division III basketball teams.

The College Sports Information Directors of America...

Janet Rowley to receive Japan Prize for role in development of targeted cancer therapy

John Easton — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:03 -0500

Janet Davison Rowley, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, will receive the 2012 Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology. She will share the award with Brian J. Druker, from the Oregon Health and Science University, and Nicholas B. Lydon, formerly with Novartis. They were chosen for their roles in the development of the first...

Fourth-year Leah Rand named Marshall Scholar

Susie Allen — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:18 -0500

Fourth-year Leah Rand has received a prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which will allow her to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

Rand, 22, of Chevy Chase, Md., is majoring in HIPS (History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine) and minoring in art history at the University of Chicago.

Rand hopes to...

Raghuram Rajan receives prestigious Infosys Prize

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:18 -0500

Chicago Booth professor Raghuram Rajan, an expert in banking, corporate finance and economic development, has won the prestigious 2011 Infosys Prize in India for his research on the contribution of financial development to economic growth. He also was cited for his research on the potentially harmful effects of dysfunctional incentives that lead to...

Former faculty member Thomas J. Sargent shares Nobel Prize in Economics

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:01 -0500

Thomas J. Sargent, a former University of Chicago faculty member in Economics and a visiting fellow in the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, was named Monday as a winner of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Sargent, the Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University, and...

Chicago Booth’s Ronald Burt, Christopher Yenkey receive awards

Allan Friedman — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:47 -0500

Ronald Burt, the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has received the prestigious 2011 George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management for his book ...

National survey names Medical Center as one of the best U.S. hospitals

John Easton — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:51 -0500

U.S. News & World Report has selected the University of Chicago Medical Center as one of the finest hospitals in the United States in its 2011-12 Best Hospitals survey.

The magazine ranked 12 Medical Center specialties among the top such programs in the country. Combined with nine top pediatric programs at Comer...