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 ...

Most people seriously overestimate their ability to communicate effectively, even when dealing with information they know to be ambiguous, say Chicago psychologists Boaz Keysar and Anne Henly. In a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Wayne Booth, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and one of the 20th century’s most prominent and influential literary critics, died at his ...

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 ...

Created in 1941, the Alumni Medal is awarded to recognize achievement of an exceptional nature in any field, vocational or voluntary, covering an entire career. It is the highest honor the Alumni ...

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 ...

A model of a newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, which fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals, is depicted in what scientists believe to be the animal's environment about ...

Kate Sulzberger Levi–widow of the late Edward Levi, the former U.S. Attorney General and President Emeritus of the University–died Thursday, March 13. She was 85. Levi, a resident of Chicago’s Hyde ...

Three University scholars—Raphael Lee, Ursula Storb and President Zimmer— have been awarded the distinction of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 471 ...

Aaron Director, a distinguished University economist who greatly influenced the modern course of economics and legal thought through his founding of the field of Law and Economics and his mentoring of ...