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Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions

18 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

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...

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University Unveils Design for Arts Center, Area Landmark

12 Nov 2009 14:40:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Chicagoist .

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Free e-book of the month

05 Nov 2009 11:34:13 PST

E-books from the University of Chicago Press are offered in Adobe Digital Editions format for Mac, PC, and a number of mobile devices such as the Sony Reader, IREX, BeBook, and more. Check out these links to find out more about Adobe Digital Editions or more about e-books from the Universit...

Original story at The Chicago .

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Technology brings new insights to one of the oldest Middle Eastern languages still spoken

14 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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Opinion: “Wannabe U” Builds Prestige

07 Oct 2009 10:30:48 PDT

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...

Original story at The Chicago .

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U of C Researcher Dies Of Plague Infection

20 Sep 2009 14:30:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Chicagoist .

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University of Chicago news and blogs - November 24, 2009

24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit University of Chicago news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• 61st Community Garden Has No Plans To Die On the Vine -- by Camela Furry from Chicagoist
• Traveling with the Graham family—dispatches from Lisbon -- from The Chicago Blog
• Weekend Classical Music Picks -- by Alexander Hough from Chicagoist
• The Long View of Consumer Activism -- from The Chicago Blog
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009 -- from The Chicago Blog
• Blue -- from University of Chicago Press Books: New books
• Audio: Milton Friedman on "Capitalism and the Jews" -- by UChicagoLaw from The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
• "South Asia Across the Disciplines" on the web -- from The Chicago Blog
• U. of C. Turning Beloved Garden into Construction Site -- by Anna Deem from Chicagoist
• The Creative Graffiti Of U of C's Regenstein Library -- by Marcus Gilmer from Chicagoist

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Ralley emerges as Petoskey's top city manager candidate

14 Jun 2009 10:52:41 PDT

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 ...

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US News & World Report release 2009 Business School Overall and Categorical rankings

27 Apr 2009 08:48:51 PDT

Written 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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How To: Thailand Wage rate across Regions. MIT Chicago TSpower Advanced Tutorial 1

11 Mar 2009 09:39:14 PDT

Written by rss@youtube.com (TSpowerGuide)
Author: TSpowerGuide Keywords: MIT University of Chicago Economics Thailand Developing Economices Development Economics Townsend Tspower Wage Rate Wage Added: March 11, 2009

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Opinion: Interview: The Galloping Ghost's Gary Andrew Poole

30 Jan 2009 13:22:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Chicagoist .

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Podcast: Student Blogger - Chicago???s Best Ideas: Dean Saul Levmore on ???The Internet???s Anonymity Problem???

22 Nov 2008 08:07:47 PST

Written 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...

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Defending Google

15 Nov 2008 08:46:40 PST

Written 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...

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Position Wanted

02 Nov 2008 06:00:00 PST

Written 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

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Opinion: Obama's Constitution

28 Oct 2008 04:36:02 PDT

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.

Original story at Power Line .

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Opinion: A lost magazine from an elegant era

27 Oct 2008 23:44:05 PDT

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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Chicago Audio Works Podcast: Episode 3

23 Oct 2008 05:53:51 PDT

Chicago Audio Works is produced by Chris Gondek of Heron & Crane and the Invisible Hand. This and previous episodes of Chicago Audio Works are also available from iTunes and other digital media aggregators. See all audio and video available from the University of Chicago Press.

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An informed source on the 'radical' Annenberg Challenge

14 Oct 2008 15:59:33 PDT

Written 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...

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More on the consortial repository of Google-scanned books

13 Oct 2008 08:32:06 PDT

Written 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...

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How To: Google Earth with Lucy Gray

28 Jun 2008 02:58:53 PDT

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 ...

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Podcast: Grant Achatz Wins 2008 James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Award

09 Jun 2008 12:37:56 PDT

Written 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

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Police investigate Cisse killing

26 Nov 2007 23:31:35 PST

Written 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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Opinion: Police might have found car in U. of C. attacks - Chicago Tribune

21 Nov 2007 14:11:25 PST

Chicago Tribune, United States - Student Shot to Death Near U of Chicago The Associated Press U. of C. to review alert system Chicago Tribune U. of C. reels from hour of violence Chicago Tribune Rockford Register Star - Chicago Tribune

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Opinion: Student Shot to Death Near U of Chicago - The Associated Press

20 Nov 2007 17:30:50 PST

Student Shot to Death Near U of Chicago U. of C. to review alert system Chicago Tribune U. of C. reels from hour of violence Chicago Tribune University of Chicago targets fears after student’s shooting death Rockford Register Star Chicago Tribune - ABC7Chicago.com

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Favorite son’s rhetoric lost in the details

26 Oct 2007 00:33:40 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: Areva Martin: Fear Is the Best Teacher

20 Sep 2006 18:47:45 PDT

Written 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...

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