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 ...
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 ...
The University Board of Trustees has officially approved the election of James Crown to serve as the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Crown succeeds Edgar Jannotta. At its Thursday, June 12 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stephen Raudenbush, the Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology and the College and Chair of the Committee on Education, has received the Distinguished Contributions to Research in ...
A scene from the film Andrei Rublev, made by the late, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. A scene from the film Andrei Rublev. Christ the Savior by Andrei Rublev, ca. 1410 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) ...
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