SSA graduate, Law School student die in tragic North Side porch collapse Julie Sorkin, a 2003 graduate of the School of Social Service Administration, and Henry “Jay” Wischerath Jr., who had just ...

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 ...

Bernard Cohn, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and a pioneering scholar of the British colonial period of India, died Tuesday, Nov. 25, in his Hyde Park home. He was 75. “Barney Cohn was interested ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Human evolution—in what has become our most important organ, the brain—is still under way, University researchers report in two related papers published in the Friday, Sept. 9 issue of Science.The ...

Architects selected for Lab Schools expansion project By William Harms w-harms@uchicago.edu News Office Two award-winning architecture firms, which include some of the nation’s top architects, have ...

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 ...

The Trustees of the University and the University Hospitals have passed measures to create a new governance model that expands the purview of the Hospitals Board to include not only the activities of ...

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 ...