The historical significance of the Wayne Miller photography collection, which Miller recently donated to the University’s Department of History, was discussed at a recent symposium at the Office of ...

Kenwood Academy Prize founder Bertram Cohler (left), the William Rainey Harper Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, and Andre Phillips, Associate Director of College Admissions, speak ...

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 ...

During the Spring Quarter, the University Community Service Center, the College and the Office of the Reynolds Club and Student Activities honor a group of student leaders for their contributions to ...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences announced their 2008 classes at the end of April, and members of the University faculty, the Director of Fermi National ...

Architect Helmut Jahn designed the new elliptical glass-domed Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which will be built adjacent to the Joseph Regenstein Library. The architecture of the new library ...

Appointed in January to serve as the University’s first Deputy Provost for Graduate Education, Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Professor in Political Science and the College, has been ...

As part of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s music residency with University of Chicago Presents, Cultural Partners Program musicians recently visited Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn and ...

The Chronicle’s biweekly column Chicago In the News offers a digest of commentary and quotations by a few of the University faculty members, students and alumni who have been headlining the news in ...

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named four University faculty members 2007 Guggenheim fellows in its annual competition. This year’s Chicago winners, who were selected from among ...

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 ...