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Higher Education Act expires without renewal
09 May 2008
The Higher Education Act (HEA), the piece of federal legislation that dictates higher education policy, including government financial aid programs, has expired as of April 30...
Chicago colleges lobby for Metra line discounts
29 Apr 2008
The Coalition of Chicago Colleges (CCC) is working to secure discounted fares on the Metra rail system for Chicago-area college students...
Sunstein delivers Earth Week keynote address
25 Apr 2008
Although the United States government has failed to address climate change head-on, it has still made considerable environmental progress since the first Earth Day in 1970, Law School professor C...
City Council to U of C: Divest now
11 Apr 2008
The Chicago City Council unanimously approved a resolution denouncing the University for its refusal last year to divest from companies with business ventures in the Darfur region of Sudan during...
SG selects UnCommon fund recipients
04 Apr 2008
A presentation on how to survive zombie attacks, a naked Halloween party, and a new student-run emergency response unit are among the student proposals that received grants from the UnCommon Fund...
Breckinridge prevails in second Battle of the Bulbs
07 Mar 2008
Breckinridge residents killed the lights for the month of February—and consequently won the Green Campus Initiative’s (GCI) second annual Battle of the Bulbs competition. ...
Grants aid small business revitalization
29 Feb 2008
A new city program targeted at small business owners is helping some 53rd-Street businesses, such as Kimbark Coin Laundry and the newly opened Asian fusion restaurant Chant, to improve their faci...
Argonne holds hamburger machine contest
26 Feb 2008
Hamburgers were bungled, assembled, and dissected at the Argonne National Laboratory’s Rube Goldberg Machine contest last Friday, as six teams of local high school students competed to build hamb...
Ben Folds to headline MAB winter show
22 Feb 2008
Rock pianist Ben Folds will headline the winter concert at Mandel Hall on March 1, the Major Activities Board (MAB) announced yesterday...
Frat brothers run marathon for charity
08 Feb 2008
During the long months fourth-year Lee Solomon spent training for a half-marathon, he became frustrated, tired, and even started to doubt his ability to complete the 13.1-mile trek...
Second “Bulbs” contest to pit dorm against dorm
05 Feb 2008
Last Friday night, students in the Snell House lounge strained their eyes while playing a game of chess in the dark to reduce their dorm’s energy use. ...
Online student venture catalogs users’ libraries
01 Feb 2008
A member of the multitasking generation, third-year economics major Guy Demeter has no difficulty balancing schoolwork and developing and launching online software...
Helmbold, 88, worked as FBI translator, Latin professor
30 Apr 2008
Nancy Pearce Helmbold, a professor emerita in the Classics department, died last Tuesday in her Hyde Park home at the age of 88...
Model U.N. team takes top honors at Yale
02 Nov 2007
Rebounding from a down year in 2006-07, the University’s Model United Nations team has returned to their traditional perch atop the simulated diplomacy circuit with a victory at last weekend’s Ya...
Property adjacent to Obama’s on market
26 Oct 2007
Presidential hopeful and Kenwood resident Barack Obama may soon have new neighbors. An empty lot next to his Kenwood home is on the market for $1.5 million...
Nobel-winning physicist tied to Argonne
23 Oct 2007
German scientist Peter Grünberg, who won a 2007 Nobel Prize in physics last week, performed some of the research that led to a breakthrough in nanotechnology at U of C–owned Argonne National Labs...
Looming primaries draw campus political activists
12 Oct 2007
With “Google Ron Paul” slogans chalked on sidewalks across campus and fliers for Barack Obama student rallies slowly overtaking hallway corkboards, students at the U of C are beginning to show th...
Redford to preview film at Doc
09 Oct 2007
Actor and director Robert Redford will present his new film, Lions for Lambs, at a special screening tonight at 5 p.m., Doc Films announced last week...
Students make most of time away
05 Oct 2007
U of C undergraduate Joe Compratt said he wasn’t ready for college when he started his first year in 2002. ...
Computer network aids crucial drug research
02 Oct 2007
The University of Chicago has joined forces with IBM, Argonne Labs, and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) to develop drugs that will treat and cure deadly diseases such as dengue, Wes...
Minorities report in record numbers
30 Sep 2007
The College has boosted its minority and international student enrollment to an all-time high with the incoming first-year class...
Ragin’ Cajun entertains, challenges at Progressive Gala
01 Jun 2007
In an address to a mostly student audience Saturday, well known political consultant, author, and lead strategist of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign James Carville lambasted the Univers...
Duncan, psychology professor, dead at 71
01 Jun 2007
University of Chicago psychology professor Starkey Duncan, Jr. passed away due to complications from heart surgery on May 15 at the University’s Bernard Mitchell Hospital on campus. He was 71. ...
New center examines U.S. history
15 May 2007
Administrators at the Center for Study of the Principles of the American Founding are rounding out what they see as a first year marked by the successful integration of new programs into the Univ...
Admin taps new liaison to Board of Trustees
08 May 2007
The U of C announced Friday that it has appointed David Fithian to the new position of secretary of the University...
Students disrupt Hyde Park mugging of former Senator
01 May 2007
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary for U of C students Zachary Trayes-Gibson and Rachel McFadden as they walked to a party on South Woodlawn Avenue Friday evening...
SG Election Guide: The Moose Party
24 Apr 2007
Despite 12 consecutive years of losing the Student Government (SG) Executive Slate election, the Moose Party promises that its election this year could mean significant positive changes for the U...
Slate candidates face off in SG Debate
20 Apr 2007
Candidates running for Student Government (SG) Executive Slate, Graduate Student Liaison, and Undergraduate Student Liaison discussed their platforms in the annual election debate held Wednesday ...
I-House hosts speaker double-header
17 Apr 2007
International House played host to two prominent campus events, “The Current Security and Economic Situation on the Korean Peninsula” and a reading by the famous Soviet dissident poet Yevgeny Yev...
GSB aims summer program at undergrads
13 Apr 2007
The U of C Graduate School of Business (GSB) has launched the Summer Business Scholars Program, a new program to help college undergraduates transition from school to the workplace...
ETS cancels revisions to GRE exam
10 Apr 2007
Educational Testing Service (ETS) announced last week that it has canceled its plans to revise the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), the standardized test used in admissions decisions by most American ...
SG names recipients of $40k New Initiatives Fund
03 Apr 2007
The Student Government (SG) New Initiatives Fund announced its first funding decision Sunday, allocating nearly all of the $40,000 set aside for independent projects...
Transportation Office tweaks bus routes
30 Mar 2007
In response to student complaints, the CTA and the University Transportation and Parking Office have added a bus to the #170 route and readjusted the #171 route...
Dorms slash energy use for Battle of the Bulbs
06 Mar 2007
The Battle of the Bulbs electricity-reduction competition ended last week, with Burton-Judson (B-J) emerging as the clear winner...
House T-shirts: Where students come to buy
27 Feb 2007
In a custom as unique as Scav Hunt or the Latke-Hammentashen Debate, U of C students have embraced a tradition of sardonic and self-deprecating T-shirts that both celebrate and bemoan some of the...
Faulty rankings released to criticism
16 Feb 2007
A recently released study of faculty productivity that ranks the U of C 33rd out of 166 large universities has generated a barrage of criticism and accusations of poor accounting...
U of C takes steps toward sustainability amid criticism
02 Feb 2007
The Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the University a grade of D+ in its first College Sustainability Report Card released last week...
Professors tie disciplines into spirituality
02 Feb 2007
The Divinity School hosted “Physics, Physiology, Philosophy: Three Paths, One Spirited Product,” a conference featuring three professors from Georgetown University, on January 26. ...
Work on new dorm kicks into high gear
23 Jan 2007
Construction on the new south campus dormitory and dining hall is well underway and on schedule, according to Cheryl Gutman, deputy dean of students for Housing, Dining, and Transportation...
New Year releases flood of "the resolved" upon U of C gyms
19 Jan 2007
For U of C students trying to make good on their New Year’s resolutions, Ratner Athletic Center has become an all-too-popular place to do so. ...
Filmmaker opens herself up at open talk
21 Nov 2006
Film buffs gathered at the Film Studies Center Friday night for the second part of the three-part city-wide series, Light Years: Films and Video by Gunvor Nelson...
SSA professor makes case for spirituality in mental health
14 Nov 2006
Froma Walsh, a professor in the U of C School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and co-director of the Chicago Center for Family Health, argued that spirituality should have a larger role in...
Med Center income falls in fiscal '06
07 Nov 2006
The University of Chicago Medical Center took a hard hit in the 2006 fiscal year, falling $33 million short of its budgeted operating income due to rising expenses and lower than expected revenue...
Medical Center taps new president
03 Nov 2006
Former Hershey Medical Center director David Hefner was named the new president of the University of Chicago Medical Center Wednesday, succeeding former President Michael Riordan, who left in Jul...
Nuclear pioneer dies at 91
31 Oct 2006
Alvin M. Weinberg, a famous nuclear scientist, nuclear energy advocate, and U of C graduate, died October 18 in his Oak Ridge, Tenn. home. He was 91...
Writer Jared Diamond visits campus
24 Oct 2006
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond opened the School of Social Service Administration’s (SSA) 2006–07 Lecture Series on Thursday with a talk on his most recent book, Collapse: How Societ...
Construction underway on new dorm behind B-J
13 Oct 2006
When returning B-J residents arrived in September, they found the field behind their dorm torn up and under construction, marking the first physical sign of the new dorm that will replace the Sho...
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