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Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean S...

By Lindsey Miller Rendering courtesy of UChicago Arts. Look out Obama's house and Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house, there's a new landmark coming to in Hyde Park, and it's sure to dwarf the competition. University of Chicago has settled on the design for an 11-story, multi-million dollar creative and perf...

The Chicago Tribune's cultural critic Julia Keller has yet another quotable review of a great new title from the University of Chicago Press. This time Keller offers an insightful critique of Philip Graham's new travel memoir documenting his year-long sojourn in Portugal while on sabb...

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In January we announced the birth of the new series "South Asia Across the Disciplines"—a unique collaborative publication effort between Columbia University Press, the University of California Press, and the University of Chicago Press designed to increase publication opportun...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. Members of the West Semitic Research Project at the Universit...

Over at the Cultural Capital blog (great name, by the way) of the New Statesman, Simon Reid-Henry reflects on philosopher Jacques Derrida on the fifth anniversary of his death. Reid-Henry laments that, "judging by how little noticed the fifth anniversary of his death has been, [Derrida...

Universities, with their verdant quads and hallowed halls of learning, are celebrated as bastions of ideas and academic freedoms. But more and more often, universities are being operated not as secular temples of education but as corporate business. Gaye Tuchman's exposé of the modern...

Since the introduction of statins to treat high cholesterol, the decline in lipid levels experienced by the wealthy has been double that experienced by the poor. Statin use may have contributed to expanding social disparities in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, according to n...

By Staff Professor Malcolm J. Casadaban, a 60-year-old genetics researcher at the University of Chicago, died on Sept. 13 at the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Bernard Mitchell Hospital. Casadaban was studying the genetics of the plague bacteria and officials think his infection may st...

 MI His educational background includes a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago as well as a master's in public administration and a law degree from Syracuse University. During his interview Saturday, Ralley said he pursued ...

 PA Her replacement is a longtime Michelle friend, Susan Sher, who had worked with Michelle Obama since the early 1990s, first in the Chicago mayor's office and later at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Sher, educated at George Washington and ...

By Dave for MBA(noreply@blogger.com) 1 Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL 3 Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC 4 Stanford University Stanford, CA 5 Harvard University Boston, MA 7 University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL 8 Columbia University New York, NY

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By Alexander Hough Image courtesy of University of Chicago Presents Double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer finishes his residency with the University of Chicago Presents with a series of events from Thursday through Saturday. Meyer, who plays equal parts bluegrass, newgrass, and classical, shared the stage...

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By Marcus Gilmer GP: Yeah, definitely. Football really started as an East Coast game but there were significant teams in the Midwest and it definitely became less of an elitist sport because of the rise of football in the Midwest, particularly in Chicago and the rural areas of Illinois and Ohio and other pl...

Since its founding in 1891, the University of Chicago Press has embraced as its mission the obligation to disseminate scholarship of the highest standard and to publish serious works that promote education, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. The dissemination im...

He also said his Cabinet would "combine experience with fresh thinking" and pushed back against criticism that he was recycling former Clinton administration officials as he builds his new economic team. In his third news conference on the economy in as many days, Obama announced he had...

By Bryan Hart Levmore illustrated the problem with the website Juicy Campus, which I will not link to; obviously, many similar websites exist. The website categorizes gossip message boards by school: one for UCLA, one for Tennessee Tech, one for University of Chicago (which is rather sparse), and so...

By Jeff Jarvis Tuesday night, I’m joining in an NPR Intelligence Squared debate - Oxford format - on the motion, Google violates its “don’t be evil” motto. I’m speaking against - surprise, surprise. Esther Dyson and and Jim Harper of CATO are on my side; on the other are Siva Vaidhyanathan of the Universit...

By Jay Tea References: References Available Upon Request 1993-2004: University of Chicago Law School. Visiting Fellow/Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law. No articles published, no outstanding achievements. References: References Available Upon Request

Among the Hyde Park friends of Barack Obama was former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi was on the faculty of the University of Chicago, at whose law school Obama was a lecturer. Their children attended the same school. The Khalidis and the Obamas became friends and dinner companions.

Long tradition of American political thought--states owe to every citizen a degree of subsistence. Second Bill of Rights made possible by attack on distinction between negative and positive rights. Effort to separate them is unfit for the American legal framework.

Now, as Julia Keller notes in a recent review for the Chicago Tribune, "thanks to the archival detective work of Neil Harris, emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, we can glide our way back to an era when elegance mattered—not only in dress and deportment, but also in sentence a...

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By Eric Zorn Barack Obama, then an attorney and lecturer at the University of Chicago law school, was asked to serve on the founding board, and later as its chair -- a board that included the President of the University of Illinois and the President of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club, Chicag...

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) The project is called HathiTrust, and so far it consists of the members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of the 11 universities in the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago, and the 11 campuses in the University of California system. The University o...

Lucy Grey, from University of Chicago, is leading the session. We’re starting with a look at Google Maps and how to use the search feature to make your own customized maps. Using the Sears Tower in Chicago, we’re looking at the street ...

By disembedded Grant Achatz: Alinea Restaurant (Chicago) Chicago’s Acclaimed Alinea Restaurant Chicago’s Grant Achatz Wins The James Beard Foundations’ Best Chef Award Achatz Describes His Battle with Cancer in December The 2007 James Beard Foundation Awards

Ginsburg honored for international achievement Inside Illinois, IL - He has a visiting appointment at the University of Chicago Law School. Ginsburg’s book “Judicial Review in New Democracies” (Cambridge University Press), ...

By Michael Lipkin The University of Chicago Democrats (UC Dems) and the University of Chicago College Republicans (UC Republicans) have both been feverishly gearing up for today’s Super Tuesday primaries for months. Both officers said there is something special about the University of Chicago that co...

By Rhema Hokama The increases are in part the result of Harvard’s and Princeton’s announcements that they would end their early-decision options this year, Behnke said. Consequently, more students are sending out early applications to other institutions, including the University of Chicago.

But, as Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones noted in his review, “This one will have the denizens of the University of Chicago buzzing. And inclined to stay away from pie.” Titus Andronicus runs through February 10. ...

By Adam P So what does the University of Chicago community think of Chant? Well, fully three of the five reviews we've received in the past few weeks have come from University IPs, so at least the students are engaged. The first review came in on ...

By Adrian R. Florido There are also plans to install emergency phones at University, Woodlawn, and Kimbark Avenues at 61st Street within the next week, said UCPD Sergeant JoCathy Roberts. The University’s SafeRide program, which offers free late-night transportation to students in the University area,...

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By Seth Berlin In recent weeks, Barack Obama spoke before a well respected Chicago university on the subject of the war in Iraq. This particular university is known for its campus diversity. It has consistently been ranked top in terms of undergraduate satisfaction, and one of its graduate programs hol...

By Isa Haviland The University of Chicago owns the Robie House and leases it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which subleases the house at no cost to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio for operation and fundraising. The University has donated $100,000 to the restoration of the Founta...

By Nicholas Nardini “This wonderful gift to the University will provide us with a powerful new tool for recruiting and retaining outstanding junior faculty across the University. We are profoundly grateful to the Neubauers for their continued support of the University of Chicago and for their commitment...

By Rhema Hokama The University of Chicago’s NSIT department forwards settlement letters from the recording industry to the offending individuals. At that point, the University is no longer legally responsible for the acts of copyright infringement.

Specifically, Jackson noted the occasions on which the University has shut down due to extreme weather and administrators have had a difficult time notifying the University community. In other, more isolated incidents, such as serial arson crimes in fall of 2005, a system like cAlert w...

It's wonderful these books are back in print," says Carl Smith, a professor of English and American Studies at Northwestern University and author of three books on Chicago, including The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. "I refer to [the set] constant...

This week's Chicago Reader features a front page story titled "Defending Strauss" in which contributor Julie Englander delivers a comprehensive report on the long-running controversy surrounding the former University of Chicago professor of philosophy, Leo Strauss, who died in 1...

Peer Review in Peril?  DC - Professors in the top five economics departments, as ranked by the National Research Council — Harvard University, the University of Chicago, MIT, ...

By Ann Althouse Profit margins at Kinko’s have fallen, revenue has barely grown and employee turnover, which was 42 percent in 2005, was still a daunting 27 percent last year. Paul Orfalea, who was nicknamed Kinko for the full head of curly black hair he sported in 1970 when he founded the company — origina...

By Scott Page Don't believe me? Look at the plans. The Olympic Village? That'll sit South of McCormick Place to the North of the new Sox ballpark and the Illinois Institute of Technology. The Olympic Stadium? That'll be in Washington Park, which sits adjacent to the University of Chicago. If all goes acco...

By Nicholas Nardini Students at the University of Chicago would do well to practice their French. Pierre Humbert, professor of Geophysical Sciences, suggested the University of Chicago to Glowinski, a neuroscientist often referred to as the father of neuropsychology.

 NY - Mrs. Shirts, 24, graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was a founder of The Chicago Scholarly Review, a journal. ...

By Areva Martin Many years ago, I learned that fear can be the best teacher and motivator. At the tender age of 18, I entered the University of Chicago as a freshman. This century-old private university founded by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller and nestled in the middle class neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chic...