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Contact Us

To contact the News Office during normal business hours, please call 773.702.8360. See below for more staff contact and beat coverage details.

Administration Building

The University of Chicago News Office is located in Rm. 200 of the Administration Building, 5801 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637. We can be reached by phone at 773.702.8360.

 

The News Office provides these services for University faculty and administrators:

» Communications planning for announcements such as academic and building projects.

» Strategic planning to reach media in order to call attention to important scholarly work: Suggesting approaches to work with media, preparing media advisories, writing news releases, and contacting targeted media outlets.

» Assistance in editing and pitching op-ed pieces to major newspapers.

» Counsel on planning media coverage for events.

» Media training to help faculty and administrators deal effectively with interviews.

» Assistance with radio interviews, including high quality broadcast interviews done via an ISDN line.

Social Sciences and Oriental Institute

William Harms covers the Oriental Institute and the Social Sciences, including Education, Economics, the School of Social Service Administration, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Urban Affairs.
773.702.8356 | w-harms@uchicago.edu

Physical Sciences

Steve Koppes covers Astronomy & Astrophysics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geophysical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics.
773.702.8366 | s-koppes@uchicago.edu

The University of Chicago Chronicle

Laurie Davis is the editor of the Chronicle, a biweekly newspaper covering faculty research and other University news.
773.702.8353 | l-davis@uchicago.edu

The College and the Law School

Julia Morse covers the College and the Law School.
773.702.8359 | morse@uchicago.edu

Arts, Humanities and Divinity School

Josh Schonwald covers the arts, humanities and the Divinity School.
773.702.6421 | jschonwa@uchicago.edu

Biological Sciences

John Easton and Catherine Gianaro cover Ecology, Evolution, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Anatomy and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
773.702.6241
john.easton@uchospitals.edu or catherine.gianaro@uchospitals.edu

Graduate School of Business

Allan Friedman covers the Graduate School of Business.
773.702.9232 | allan.friedman@ChicagoGSB.edu

Physical Education and Athletics

Dave Hilbert covers physical education and athletics.
773.702.4638 | dave_hilbert@athletics.uchicago.edu

Student News

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