» Milton Ehre, Russian literature expert, 1933-2009
02/07/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Milton Ehre, an authority on 19th-century Russian drama and Professor Emeritus in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, died Tuesday, June 30 at Rush Oak Park Hospital. Ehre, 76, was a resident of River Forest. Ehre..
» Direct Deposit Now Available for Student Refunds
01/07/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
University of Chicago students will benefit from a new direct deposit option for student refunds, effective July 6. The Office of the Bursar will offer students the option of direct deposit for refunds of financial aid or student loan payme..
» Janet Rowley awarded Gruber Genetics Prize for cancer research
01/07/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Janet Rowley, a founder in the field of cancer cytogenetics and a leader in molecular oncology, will receive the 2009 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for her research on recurrent chromosomal abnormalities in leuk..
» Design fosters innovation at Knapp Center
30/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
With the opening this month of the $244 million Gwen and Jules Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, scientists at the University of Chicago have gained a facility designed to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and research flexibilit..
» O'Hare Airport exhibit provides portal to cosmos
30/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Visitors to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this summer may find themselves taking an unplanned "journey" into the cosmos. "From Earth to the Universe," an exhibit of 56 astronomical images, is on display through the end of the year ..
» Chemist Greg Engel named 2009 Searle Scholar
30/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Greg Engel, Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of Chicago, is one of 15 scientists nationwide who has been named a 2009 Searle Scholar. The honor carries $300,000 in support of Engel's research over the next three years. Thi..
» Astronomer Michael Gladders named 2009 Cottrell Scholar
30/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
The Research Corporation for Science Advancement has named the University of Chicago's Michael Gladders a 2009 Cottrell Scholar. Each of the 10 new Cottrell Scholars will receive a $100,000 grant. Cottrell award recipients are chosen both f..
» John W. Rogers Jr., business and education leader, named chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools board
30/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Alumnus, longtime trustee and education champion John W. Rogers Jr. will be the next chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Board of Trustees, University President Robert J. Zimmer has announced. Rogers, who graduated from La..
» More than half of CPS teachers leave their schools within five years; African-American schools hit hardest
29/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
About 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children, according to ..
» Gala celebrates a century of social service
29/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Hundreds of friends, faculty members and civic leaders gathered June 4 in the grand ballroom of the Palmer House Hilton to salute the centennial of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The celebration included ..
» Project Exploration offers mammoth-scale summer learning experience
25/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Project Exploration is deploying Chicago Public School students into Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota this summer to conduct field studies alongside working scientists. "People are trying to figure out how to get kids engaged in science in..
» Vitamin-A derivative provides clues to better breast cancer drugs
25/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, could lead researchers to a new set of drug targets for treating breast cancer, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the June 26, 2009, issue of the journal Cell. The most common for..
» Graffiti & Grub: The Hip-Hop Generation Gets Its Grocery Store
24/06/09 23:13 from The Chicago Weekly
True wealth lies in a healthy spirit and body . This truism seems to suggest that wealth is within everyone's reach. In the United States, however, living a healthy lifestyle can seem like a luxury of the upper and upper-middle classes. No..
» Famed broadcast journalist John Callaway dies
24/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
John Callaway, longtime host of WTTW/Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight," and founding director of the University of Chicago's William Benton Fellowship Program in Broadcast Journalism, died Tuesday in Racine, Wis. Callaway, an Emmy Award-winnin..
» Streaming sand grains help define essence of a liquid
24/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Water forms droplets because attractive interactions between molecules produce surface tension. If macroscopic objects—say, grains of sand—replace the molecules, the relative strength of this attraction would dramatically drop. What vestige..
» Anna Lisa Crone, 1946-2009, Expert in Russian Literature
23/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Anna Lisa Crone, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, who was widely respected for her ability to elucidate difficult Russian poetry of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, died June 19 after a 15-year b..
» Investment veteran named University’s Chief Investment Officer
23/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer has appointed Mark A. Schmid as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. Schmid comes to the University from Chicago-based Boeing Co., where he was Vice President and Chief Investment Off..
» Cold case techniques bring mummy’s face to life
22/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the Oriental Institute’s mummy Meresamun may have looked like in real life. A Chicago forensic artist and a police artist in Maryland pre..
» University Names New Leader for Harris School
22/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Colm OMuircheartaigh, a longtime professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, has been appointed the schools next dean, University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced today. An appli..
» Shanghai Comes to Chicago: Lao Shanghai dishes up timeless elegance
19/06/09 14:54 from The Chicago Weekly
In general, Chinese restaurants put little stock in looking good, whatever the quality of the food they serve . Speaking with the sole (and vague) qualification of being Chinese myself, I suspect this is a simple reflection of the utilitar..
» Argonne, University of Chicago scientists reach milestone in study of emergent magnetism
19/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have reached a milestone in the study of emergent magnetism. Studying simple metallic chromium, the joint University of Chicago-Argonne ..
» Frederick P. Zuspan, M.D. 1922-2009
17/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
An internationally recognized authority in the field of maternal-fetal medicine, Frederick P. Zuspan, MD, former chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago and an expert on preeclampsia, a dangerous fo..
» Sands of Gobi Desert yield new species of nut-cracking dinosaur
17/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts..
» Meteorite grains divulge Earth’s cosmic roots
16/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and his international team of collea..
» University of Chicago Participates in Yellow Ribbon Program
12/06/09 09:00 from University of Chicago News Office
The University of Chicago is joining a new initiative to expand higher education funding for post-9/11 servicemen and women in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, through the Yellow Ribbon Education Enhancement Program..
