Wide-Ranging Event to Reflect on 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg Address

Posted On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Wide-Ranging Event to Reflect on 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg Address A UChicago commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the delivery of the Gettysburg Address will take place Tuesday, Nov. 19 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Social Science Research Building, Room 122. The address is President Abraham Lincoln’s compact but richly poetic dedication of a Union cemetery in November 1863, ...

Genetic analysis reveals insights into genetics of OCD, Tourette’s

Posted On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Genetic analysis reveals insights into genetics of OCD, Tourette’s An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Chicago has revealed major differences between the genetic makeup of obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette’s syndrome, providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable. Their report was published in the October issue of the ...

Facilities Services Installs New Signage for Easier Navigation

Posted On Monday, October 28, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
A new way-finding system for the University of Chicago campus is helping guide visitors who approach Hyde Park by vehicle, with additional help for pedestrians to navigate the campus grounds once they arrive. The changes include updated signs on roads and highways, clearly identified campus parking, new pedestrian maps at points ...

College Admissions Extends Early Application Deadline to Nov. 8 in Light of Technical Difficulties

Posted On Monday, October 21, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
College Admissions Extends Early Application Deadline to Nov. 8 in Light of Technical Difficulties The Office of College Admissions at the University of Chicago is extending the deadline for Early Action applications to Nov. 8, 2013 for anyone experiencing technical difficulties with the Common Application. The move is in response to problems that students around the nation have reported with the redesigned Common Application. The ...

Numerical method trumps descriptive approach to classifying pollen grains

Posted On Monday, October 14, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Luke ManderCHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have developed a new quantitative – rather than qualitative – method of identifying pollen grains that is certainly nothing to sneeze at. The research appears in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Since the invention of the earliest light microscopes, the classification and identification ...

UChicago Presents Director Amy Iwano Brings Multiple Music Genres to Growing Audiences

Posted On Monday, October 7, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
For Amy Iwano, music lessons were part of a well-rounded education in the small town of Alliance, Ohio, where she grew up and learned how to play piano, harp and the French horn. By the time she was in college on the West Coast, she had abandoned all but the harp, ...

University Announces New Bus Stops, Times and Routes

Posted On Saturday, September 28, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
As the academic year gets underway, the University has made several changes to its bus services, including new stops and times, and a new shuttle route to 53rd Street. The changes are part of an ongoing effort to tailor the University’s transportation system to the changing needs and habits of the ...

Long-Term Disability Claims Dominate Benefits Litigation, Study Says

Posted On Thursday, September 19, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , ,   
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An empirical study of employee benefits litigation from 2006 to 2010 reveals that cases involving long-term disability claims accounted for over 60 percent of all federal cases among five broad categories, including health care, life and accidental death, and pension cases. Sean M. Anderson, a University of Illinois ...

Hyde Park Jazz Festival Features UChicago Connections, Outstanding Music

Posted On Thursday, September 12, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
When it comes to the perennial musical question—“What to do for an encore?”—organizers of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival keep finding ways to top themselves. Two years ago, Chicago magazine named the event the city’s best neighborhood music festival; last year, it added shows at the Logan Center for the ...

Ronald H. Coase, Founding Scholar in Law and Economics, 1910-2013

Posted On Thursday, September 5, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , ,   
Ronald H. Coase helped create the field of law and economics, through groundbreaking scholarship that earned him the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and through his far-reaching influence as a journal editor. Coase, who spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago Law School, died at ...

University of Chicago Library Enters Borrowing Agreement with Ivy League Schools

Posted On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , ,   
  University of Chicago faculty, students and staff will soon be able to borrow circulating materials from the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, and the Center for Research Libraries as the University of Chicago Library joins the Borrow Direct partnership. The circulating collections ...

One-Size-Fits-All Approach Doesn’t Work for Different Markets

Posted On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When evaluating the performance of a brand in a certain territory, it might be more appropriate to evaluate it against its local competitors as opposed to its performance in other territories, according to research from a University of Illinois expert in business strategy. In a forthcoming paper, Raj ...

Fossil Indicates Hairy, Squirrel-Sized Creature was not Quite a Mammal

Posted On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
A newly discovered fossil reveals the evolutionary adaptations of a 165 million-year-old proto-mammal, providing evidence that traits such as hair and fur originated well before the rise of the first true mammals. UChicago scientists described the biological features of this ancient mammalian relative, named Megaconus mammaliaformis, in the Aug. 8 ...

NORC president John Thompson to lead U.S. Census Bureau

Posted On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , ,   
John H. Thompson, president and CEO of NORC at the University of Chicago, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new director of the U.S. Census Bureau. President Barack Obama nominated Thompson in May for the position, which has been vacant since August 2012. “The Census Bureau is one ...

Inaugural Arthur L. Kelly Prizes Honor Faculty Members

Posted On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Professors Ka Yee Lee and John Frederick are the first recipients of the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Exceptional Faculty Service in the Physical Sciences Division. The annual prize recognizes University of Chicago faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the division in addition to their teaching and research. ...

Design for Major Residence Hall and Dining Commons to be Unveiled on July 23

Posted On Monday, July 22, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
The University of Chicago will unveil plans for a major new student residence hall and dining commons on Tuesday, July 23, in an event that will be webcast live to the UChicago community. The announcement webcast will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. It will provide a chance for the UChicago ...

Ray LaHood joins UChicago Institute of Politics’ Board of Advisors

Posted On Monday, July 15, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics announced Tuesday that former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will be joining the Institute's Board of Advisors. "With his long and distinguished career in public service, Secretary LaHood epitomizes a spirit of bipartisanship and ethics that undoubtedly will inspire our students," said David ...

Q&A with Neil Shubin on the New UChicago Affiliation with the Marine Biological Laboratory

Posted On Monday, July 8, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
In June, the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass. agreed to form an affiliation to strengthen historical ties between the two institutions and foster more collaboration in scientific research and innovation. Neil Shubin, PhD, professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of ...
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