UChicago Promise Eases Path to College

Posted On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
Office for Civic Engagement The University of Chicago today announced the launch of UChicago Promise, a multipronged initiative designed to help students throughout the City of Chicago gain admission to, pay for and thrive in college. The centerpiece of the initiative is a commitment from the University to eliminate loans from the financial aid packages ...

Fiscal Cliff Deal Yields Tax Certainty at Expense of Simplification

Posted On Monday, January 7, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Fiscal cliff deal yields CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Although major battles over spending cuts and raising the federal debt limit have been punted for another two months, the fiscal-cliff bill passed by Congress settles most of the significant tax issues that would have an immediate and direct impact on the average taxpayer’s pocketbook, a University ...

Moscow Legislators Visit Chicago Harris to Learn About U.S. Governance

Posted On Friday, January 4, 2013 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Five Russian legislators visited the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy recently to learn about American elections and democratic institutions from Chicago Harris faculty and students. The Chicago Harris stop on Dec. 3 kicked off a weeklong trip for the delegates to Washington D.C. and Chicago as part of ...

Let’s Get This Party Started! Student Buses Arrive In Miami In Time For New Year’s Eve

Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By . Under FEATURED, ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , ,   
At most hotels on New Year’s Eve, the big excitement takes place at midnight. At the Embassy Suites in Ft. Lauderdale, however, the party got started a little early when more than 300 NIU students invaded the lobby at about 5 p.m. Luckily for the hotel, these invaders, all clad in red ...

State Board of Education Promotes Winter Break Reading With Common Core In Mind

Posted On Sunday, December 30, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
State Board of Education Promotes Winter Break Reading With Common Core In MindCommon Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards emphasize reading complex text, demonstrating knowledge of text, speaking and listening skills SPRINGFIELD –The Illinois State Board of Education encourages families to ensure students are reading during winter break and tapping resources regarding the English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core Standards. School districts across ...

Career Treks With Partner Universities Bring Together Students And Employers

Posted On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
UChicago’s Office of Career Advancement, in a first-time partnership with Wake Forest and Stanford universities, is sending students over winter break to the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, D.C. and Chicago to meet prospective employers and make vital career connections. Student treks to prospective employers are unique to the University of ...

Next Scientific Fashion Could Be Designer Nanocrystals

Posted On Monday, December 24, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Three University of Chicago chemistry professors hope that their separate research trajectories will converge to create a new way of assembling what they call “designer atoms” into materials with a broad array of potentially useful properties and functions. These “designer atoms” would be nanocrystals—crystalline arrays of atoms intended to be manipulated ...

Indiana Jones Materials to Appear on Display at Oriental Institute Museum

Posted On Thursday, December 20, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , ,   
Indiana Jones Materials to Appear on Display at Oriental Institute Museum The contents of a package of Indiana Jones material that mysteriously arrived at the University of Chicago will be on display beginning Thursday, Dec. 20 and continuing through February in the lobby of the Oriental Institute Museum. The mystery began Dec. 12, when a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones, Jr.” ...

Graeme Bell Receives International Diabetes Prize

Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Graeme Ian Bell, the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and an investigator in the Kovler Diabetes Center at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the Manpei Suzuki International Prize for 2012 for his pioneering work in understanding the role of genetics in the diagnosis ...

UChicago Continues Winning Streak at Programming Tournament

Posted On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
Bill Waldrep, a fourth-year in computer science, recently took the $5,000 top prize in the Illinois Technology Association’s third annual Fall Challenge, a programming skills tournament for technology students attending targeted Illinois universities. Waldrep also is a member of the Whiteboard Erasers, the UChicago computer programming team that took first place ...

Four on faculty elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Posted On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
Four University of Chicago faculty members were elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the organization announced on Nov. 29. The UChicago fellows are: Anthony Kossiakoff, the Otho S.A. Sprague Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics; Angela Olinto, Professor in ...

Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship Expands Venture creation Across UChicago

Posted On Thursday, December 6, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
Chicago energy entrepreneur Michael Polsky, who in 2002 donated $7 million to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to create the Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, increased his total gift to $15 million, the school announced on Dec. 4. The additional $8 million will enable Booth’s Polsky Center to serve ...

University Temporarily Closes Dining Commons Serving South Campus

Posted On Monday, December 3, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , ,   
The University of Chicago on Thursday temporarily closed the dining commons serving the south part of campus, to ensure a comprehensive response to findings of a city inspection. Students and other members of the University community who use the affected Arley D. Cathey Dining Commons are advised to take advantage of ...

Advocate for Women in STEM Disciplines Speaks on Today’s Barriers to ‘Breaking into the lab’

Posted On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , , ,   
For Sue Rosser, the obstacles women in the STEM disciplines face today may be less obvious than they were 40 years ago, but they’re as real as ever. “Today, barriers and discrimination are more subtle and there’s a different language, but it’s still going on,” Rosser said. “It’s old wine in ...

Failed Explosions Explain Most Peculiar Supernovae

Posted On Sunday, November 25, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
Supercomputer simulations have revealed that a type of oddly dim, exploding star is probably a class of duds—one that could nonetheless throw new light on the mysterious nature of dark energy. Most of the thousands of exploding stars classified as type Ia supernovae look similar, which is why astrophysicists use them ...

Computer Programming Team Advances to World Finals Again

Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
For the first time, the University of Chicago computer programming team has won the Mid-Central USA regional contest. The victory automatically qualifies the team, named Whiteboard Erasers, for the Association of Computing Machinery/International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30 to July 4, 2013. In previous years, UChicago has ...

Study: Cellphone Bans Associated With Fewer Urban Accidents

Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , , ,   
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Cellphones and driving go together like knives and juggling. But when cellphone use is banned, are drivers any safer? It depends on where you’re driving, a study by University of Illinois researchers says. The study found that, long-term, enacting a cellphone ban was associated with a relative decrease in ...

Middle Schoolers to Explore Sky with Robotic Telescopes

Posted On Monday, November 19, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
Approximately 1,400 middle schoolers will explore the universe with research-grade robotic telescopes over the next three years, thanks to a $1.6 million program funded by the National Science Foundation. The University of Chicago will lead the effort, in partnership with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va.; the ...
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