UChicago News

Martha Nussbaum honored with Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

Meredith Heagney — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:26 -0500

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Philosophy Department and Divinity School, has received the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. The award is given by Prince Felipe of Spain to those whose work in various disciplines “...

Stephen Raudenbush elected to National Academy of Sciences

William Harms — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34 -0500

Stephen W. Raudenbush, chair of the Committee on Education, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Raudenbush, the Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, develops and applies quantitative methods for studying child and youth development within social settings such as classrooms, schools...

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...

Edward Morrison, leading bankruptcy scholar, to join Law School faculty

Meredith Heagney — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:25 -0500

Edward R. Morrison, one of the country’s leading scholars in law and economics, will join the University of Chicago Law School, his alma mater, effective July 1.

Morrison is Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics at Columbia University and the co-director of the Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy. He is credited with developing ideas that changed how the legal and business communities view bankruptcy, and...

Members of UChicago faculty honored for graduate–level teaching

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:43 -0500

Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Christine Mehring, Associate Professor in Art History and the College and Director of Graduate Studies for Art History

William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson...

Richard M. Daley appointed distinguished senior fellow at University of Chicago Harris School

Sarah Galer — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:54 -0500

Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, one of the nation’s most prominent urban leaders, will bring his extensive policymaking experience to the University of Chicago as a distinguished senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies.

The five-year appointment, Daley’s first commitment since leaving public office on May 16, will take effect July 1.

Daley will coordinate a guest lecture series...

Charles Montgomery Gray, legal history scholar, 1928-2011

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:07 -0500

Charles Montgomery Gray, a leading scholar of legal history and a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, died Friday, April 22 at the University’s Bernard Mitchell Hospital. He was 82.

He was the author of the books, Copyhold, Equity and the Common Law; History of the Common Law, Hugh Latimer and the Sixteenth Century; and Renaissance and Reformation England. He also had written numerous articles about legal history and...

Obama to nominate President Zimmer for National Science Board

Steve Koppes — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:09 -0500

President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer to the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation.

The NSF provides funding...

Law scholar Richard Epstein receives 2011 Bradley Prize

Sarah Galer — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:29 -0500

Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, has been awarded the 2011 Bradley Prize for outstanding achievement.

Known for his influential work on a wide range of constitutional, economic and historical subjects,...

Ariel Kalil awarded MacArthur Foundation grant

David Wang — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:27 -0500

Ariel Kalil, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, has been awarded a $200,000 research grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to study the impact of childhood housing instability on long-term health...