David Shepherd, who co-founded The Compass improvisational comedy group on the University’s campus 50 years ago, returned to campus this summer to direct students from the Off- Off Campus theater ...
University physicist Melba Phillips, a leading science educator who lost two jobs from New York institutions during the McCarthy era for refusing to testify against friends and colleagues before a U.S ...
To hear about Harr's notoriously meticulous research process, his thoughts on the future of narrative nonfiction and how Sherlock Holmes and a fifth-grade teacher at Hyde Park’s Bret Harte School ...
Last quarter, the Chronicle had a lengthy conversation with Jonathan Harr, this year's Robert Vare Nonfiction writer-in-residence and the author of the best-seller, A Civil Action. Hear Harr talk ...
Gil Stein, one of the nation’s leading scholars of ancient Mesopotamia, has been reappointed Director of the Oriental Institute, a position he has held since joining the University in 2002. Stein, who ...
Jay Berwanger, football star at the University and first winner of the Heisman Trophy, died Wednesday, June 26, of lung cancer. He was 88 years old. To football aficionados, Berwanger is well known as ...
Evelyn M. Kitagawa, Professor Emerita in Sociology, who did path-breaking work on demography, including work on mortality, died Saturday, Sept.15 at the University Medical Center. Kitagawa, 87, was a ...
University professors Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade and Kevin Murphy have been named 2005 MacArthur fellows. They each will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years ...
Mortimer Adler, William Benton and Robert Maynard Hutchins pose with the first edition of the Great Books collection. Angel, beauty, citizen, desire, education ...
The staff and other supporters of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University will celebrate the organization’s 15th anniversary with a symposium on Thursday, Sept. 28, titled “Fifteen ...
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 ...
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, ...
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