Twelve scholars join faculty Twelve distinguished scholars have received faculty appointments at the University this year and have joined their new Chicago colleagues in the Biological Sciences ...

Survey on physicians’ religious beliefs shows majority faithful By John Easton Medical Center Public Affairs. The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors ...

Stephen Harvey pauses for a photo during one of his trips to Abydos. A watercolor rendition of a fragment of limestone, which shows a band of sky with stars, was found at the top of a wall from the ...

Cigarette ads target youth, violating 1998 $250 billion settlement By John Easton Medical Center Public Affairs. Despite an explicit ban on directing cigarette advertising at children, all three major ...

For a new graduate student in mathematics, the easy part is mastering equivariant K-theory or the geometry of quiver varieties. But navigating the transition from learning to doing research is another ...

Since 1989, Robert Kottwitz has been helping Chicago graduate students in Mathematics to find strength in numbers. Now he has been rewarded with a 2001 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate ...

Above, large broken grindstones, nearly 2 feet in length, were found on the surface at the Hosh el-Guruf site. Hassan Ahmed Ali (below) pans for gold in al-Widay village, near the excavation site in ...

Persistence pays, contends economist James Heckman, as do other non-cognitive skills—for both the individual and society. Like persistence, dependability and other under-studied traits probably play ...

Above is a sample of three sling bullets made of clay and found in the collapsed, burnt buildings at the Hamoukar site in Syria. New details about the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities, ...

Harcourt hopes Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America, which will be released this spring, will enhance understanding of policy alternatives and help promote dialogue between the various approaches to ...

A year after the looting of the Iraqi National Museum, Oriental Institute archaeologists continue to track missing artifacts. And their work is playing a pivotal role in helping recover items stolen ...

Corrigan directed Lundin to a friend at Poets and Writers Magazine to seek a pool of writers for the journal, which Corrigan considers to have national importance. “In this time of concern about ...