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Flu vaccines cancelled

Due to nationwide shortages of the influenza vaccine this year, the University is unable to offer free vaccinations to University employees and students and University Hospitals employees, as it has ...
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Work of physicist Millikan continues to receive accolades

Although he performed both of his prize-winning experiments in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory on the University’s campus early in the 20th century, his work continues to receive accolades in the 21st ...
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Evidence of battle at Hamoukar points to early urban development

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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Michael the Syrian’s account of natural disasters provides bigger picture of how weather impacted ancient Near East

Wide swings in temperature and rainfall are common in Syria and nearby areas of the Middle East, and that variability probably had a broad impact on the development of civilization in ancient times, ...
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National academies elect four Chicago scholars

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences have elected to their memberships four University faculty members. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in ...
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Author Harr discusses his creative process for writing nonfiction that rivals any novel

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 ...
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Faculty members named to new professorships

Eight University faculty members, Bill Brown, Susan Gal, James Madara, Salikoko Mufwene, Anne Robertson, Thomas Rosenbaum, William Sewell and Nancy Stokey, have recently received distinguished service ...
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Four Chicago faculty members are named Guggenheim fellows

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 ...
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Leonard Olsen, Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Ideas and Methods, the College, dies at age 88

Leonard K. Olsen, who served equally vital roles as a member of the University’s faculty and administration and who embodied its ideal of learning as a lifetime practice, died of Parkinson’s disease ...
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Little Red Schoolhouse continues its work of 25 years in a new home in Stuart Hall

Instructors in the University’s Little Red Schoolhouse writing program gather for a photo in their new teaching space in Stuart Hall. They are (left to right) Mark Luce, Cecelia Watson, Annal Frenz, ...
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Young scholars off to study at Oxford, Bristol

One student spent 10 weeks chronicling human rights abuses in South Africa; another seeks to forge new ground applying political philosophy to the intellectually disabled; a third aims to spark ...