2008 News Release Archive
- Older adults at high risk for drug interactions
- 12.23.2008
- Tom W. Smith Named VP/President-Elect of World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)
- 12.23.2008
- Skipping sleep may signal problems for coronary arteries
- 12.23.2008
- Supercomputer time allocation to boost simulations of exploding stars
- 12.18.2008
- Stem cells and leukemia battle for marrow microenvironment
- 12.18.2008
- The more you take the more you lose
- 12.17.2008
- Study of galaxy clusters detects growth-stifling dark energy
- 12.16.2008
- Practice as well as sleep may help birds learn new songs
- 12.15.2008
- University of Chicago Materials Research Center receives $17.2 million grant
- 12.15.2008
- Computer Programming Team Advances to World Finals
- 12.11.2008
- Skadden Fellowship Awarded to Two U of C Law School Students
- 12.11.2008
- Bungum Named Marshall Scholar
- 12.10.2008
- Chemist tames longstanding electron computation problem
- 12.10.2008
- When 2 + 2 = Major Anxiety: Math Performance in Stressful Situations
- 12.09.2008
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Nobel Prize presentation ceremony for Yoichiro Nambu
- 12.05.2008
- Graham School announces new Advanced Project Management Studies program
- 12.04.2008
- "Physics with a Bang!" holiday lecture and open house this Saturday
- 12.03.2008
- More full tuition scholarships offered by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- 12.02.2008
- Agencies Serving the Poor Face Increased Problems as Economy Worsens
- 12.02.2008
- Austan Goolsbee appointed to two key economic positions in Obama administration
- 11.26.2008
- Ocean growing more acidic faster than once thought, study shows
- 11.25.2008
- University initiative leads to jobs for more than 100 residents in nearby neighborhoods
- 11.24.2008
- University of Chicago Teaching Preparation Program Expands to Include Training for Mathematics and Biology High School Teachers
- 11.24.2008
- Valerie Jarrett, Vice-Chairman of Trustees, named to top White House post
- 11.21.2008
- Axelrod appointed Senior Advisor to President-elect Obama
- 11.20.2008
- Musical America Names Pacifica Quartet "Ensemble of the Year"
- 11.18.2008
- President Bush Awards 2008 National Humanities Medals
- 11.18.2008
- University of Chicago and City request proposals for development in Hyde Park
- 11.18.2008
- Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone
- 11.18.2008
- Philosopher Jean-Luc Marion Elected to the Academie Francaise
- 11.17.2008
- Sleep helps people learn complicated tasks
- 11.17.2008
- Comet particles provide glimpse of solar system’s birth spasms
- 11.17.2008
- John H. Thompson Named President of National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
- 11.14.2008
- Prominent Architectural Firms Chosen for University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Project
- 11.13.2008
- Oriental Institute Museum helps visiting school students dig for "artifacts"
- 11.13.2008
- School of Social Service Administration marks 100 years of pioneering work and looks to the future
- 11.13.2008
- New research expected to improve laser devices and make photovoltaics more efficient
- 11.12.2008
- Annual medical ethics conference celebrates 20 years of disputes
- 11.10.2008
- Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain: Brain scans show disruption in natural empathetic response
- 11.07.2008
- Valerie Jarrett, University of Chicago Trustee, named a Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Project
- 11.06.2008
- Media advisory: Historic announcement Thursday at Graduate School of Business
- 11.06.2008
- Alumnus David Booth gives $300 million; University of Chicago Booth School of Business named in his honor
- 11.06.2008
- NORC Establishes Center for Advancing Research and Communication in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (ARC)
- 11.06.2008
- Nature study demonstrates that bacterial clotting depends on clustering
- 11.05.2008
- In commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago
- 11.04.2008
- Studs Terkel, author and Chicago historian, 1912-2008
- 11.03.2008
- Media advisory: Election watching at the University of Chicago
- 10.31.2008
- Eighth-grade ISAT standards not aligned with high school demands, college readiness
- 10.31.2008
- University and community join to dedicate new charter middle school
- 10.30.2008
- Lars Hansen receives CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications
- 10.28.2008
- Cost of diabetes treatment nearly doubled since 2001
- 10.28.2008
- University of Chicago scientists invent new device that vividly controls, measures the dynamics and interactions of chemicals in live tissue
- 10.27.2008
- Understanding the economic crisis from a variety of points of view: University of Chicago faculty provide their perspectives
- 10.23.2008
- University of Chicago Establishes Initiative to Give Big Ideas Support
- 10.23.2008
- $6 million NIH grant supports research on cancer-fighting properties of ginseng
- 10.23.2008
- Nicholas Epley wins 2008 Theoretical Innovation Award
- 10.21.2008
- University Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Humanities Day: Annual festival inspired the Chicago Humanities Festival
- 10.20.2008
- New $11 million center to speed production of new compounds for drug discovery
- 10.20.2008
- "Fishapod" reveals origins of head and neck structures of first land animals
- 10.15.2008
- University of Chicago cancer specialist elected to the National Academy of Science's prestigious Institute of Medicine
- 10.13.2008
- Le Clezio, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, is a University of Chicago Press author
- 10.10.2008
- Database on developing economies to change economics
- 10.09.2008
- Media Advisory: Press Conference for Nobel Prize Winner Yoichiro Nambu
- 10.07.2008
- Curriculum changes announced by University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
- 10.07.2008
- University of Chicago participates in launch of world’s biggest computing grid
- 10.03.2008
- David Gozal appointed chairman of pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center
- 10.03.2008
- Landmark Festival Celebrates Visionary French Composer
- 10.03.2008
- New meat-eating dinosaur from Argentina had bird-like breathing system
- 09.29.2008
- Chicago Humanities Festival Features University of Chicago Scholars, Artists
- 09.26.2008
- SSA polishes Mies van der Rohe building to help launch centennial
- 09.25.2008
- A 'wild cousin' emerges from family tree of exploding stars
- 09.25.2008
- Chicago GSB Professor Eugene Fama wins inaugural Onassis Prize in Finance
- 09.22.2008
- September 29 town hall meeting planned to discuss Argonne National Laboratory Director search
- 09.19.2008
- Video by teens about health goes to Chicago Public Schools to promote health lifestyles
- 09.18.2008
- University of Chicago Vice President and Dean of College Enrollment Michael Behnke announces retirement
- 09.17.2008
- University of Chicago, Argonne and Fermilab to participate in Science Chicago, the world’s largest science celebration
- 09.17.2008
- Physicists harness effects of disorder in magnetic sensors
- 09.09.2008
- Two major grants support creation of Chicago Center for Systems Biology
- 09.09.2008
- University of Chicago names Vice President for Financial Strategy, Budget
- 09.08.2008
- University of Chicago scientists await start-up of Large Hadron Collider
- 09.08.2008
- Ann Marie Lipinski appointed Vice President for Civic Engagement: Former Chicago Tribune editor to help forge a new kind of partnership between University and city
- 09.08.2008
- Loneliness undermines health as well as mental well-being
- 09.03.2008
- Athletes' and spectators' brains light up when talking sports
- 09.02.2008
- American Workers Overwhelmingly Support Paid Sick Days, Labor Day Survey Finds
- 08.29.2008
- Trying to satisfy too many agendas slows school reform
- 08.27.2008
- NASA names gamma-ray telescope after Enrico Fermi
- 08.26.2008
- Exploding chromosomes fuel research about evolution of genetic storage
- 08.21.2008
- More than 10 percent of older Americans suffer mistreatment, University of Chicago study shows
- 08.19.2008
- George W. Platzman, meteorologist, 1920-2008
- 08.18.2008
- A Giant Astronomical Survey Completes its Mission: And a New Mission Begins
- 08.18.2008
- Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside
- 08.14.2008
- Targeted radiation therapy can control limited cancer spread
- 08.13.2008
- Nuclear medicine pioneer Robert Beck, 1928-2008
- 08.13.2008
- Causes for Sexual Dysfunction Change as People Age: Earlier experiences with multiple partners and STDs take their toll
- 08.13.2008
- University of Chicago Completes Landmark $2.38 Billion Campaign: Donors support students, faculty, and facilities
- 08.11.2008
- Chicago scientist to receive Leonard Medal for study of extraterrestrial matter
- 08.08.2008
- Computation Institute to bulk up data analysis capability with $1.5 million grant
- 08.05.2008
- Electronic Research Publications: Too Much of A Good Thing?
- 07.28.2008
- $270,000 in seed grants awarded to joint Fermilab-University of Chicago Strategic Collaborative Initiatives
- 07.25.2008
- Magic Johnson makes surprise visit to volunteers at Donoghue School
- 07.17.2008
- John List discusses value of field experiments in economics
- 07.15.2008
- Ambitious scientific agenda triggers $20 million gift to University of Chicago
- 07.14.2008
- ENH and University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine create a new academic affiliation
- 07.14.2008
- Children are naturally prone to be empathic and moral, University of Chicago study shows
- 07.11.2008
- University celebrates career of Harold Richman, founder of Chapin Hall
- 07.10.2008
- Flatfish fossils fill in a missing link
- 07.09.2008
- Two Chicago GSB faculty members win NASDAQ Award
- 07.09.2008
- A conference on "Innovations in Development Theory and Survey Data: Implications for Policy"
- 07.08.2008
- $500,000 research award to benefit infectious-disease research
- 07.02.2008
- University of Chicago hosting five-day conference on China's economic transformation program
- 07.02.2008
- Archaeologists find silos and administration center from early Egyptian city
- 07.01.2008
- When using gestures, rules of grammar remain the same despite speakers' language
- 06.30.2008
- Dennis Carlton to return to GSB faculty on July 1
- 06.26.2008
- Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation
- 06.19.2008
- University of Chicago announces record diversity in the College Class of 2012
- 06.19.2008
- Science in Art 2008 Issues Call for Art
- 06.13.2008
- Everett Conner appointed Journals Manager of the University of Chicago Press
- 06.13.2008
- Daniel G. Freedman, 1927-2008
- 06.12.2008
- University of Chicago to hold 494th Convocation this weekend
- 06.11.2008
- University of Chicago to renovate and restore historic reading rooms
- 06.11.2008
- Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling
- 06.10.2008
- University of Chicago selects HOK as architect for new science tower
- 06.10.2008
- Largest single health care investment in history of South Side approved by University Board of Trustees
- 06.09.2008
- University of Chicago Laboratory Schools to improve campus and expand student body
- 06.09.2008
- The University of Chicago launches Urban Education Institute; new model dedicated to improving the lives of children in urban America
- 06.03.2008
- UChicago Argonne, LLC's bid for Rare Isotope Beam Facility could bring $1 billion benefit to local, state economies
- 05.29.2008
- CSI: Milky Way team works scene of dead star
- 05.28.2008
- Intensive ACT test prep during class leads to lower scores; students don’t connect grades, study habits to exam scores
- 05.27.2008
- The music of Rockefeller Chapel, at last, restored to full grandeur
- 05.27.2008
- Particle physics receives boost from $5 million gift to University of Chicago
- 05.27.2008
- Panel looks at the causes of suicide terrorism
- 05.27.2008
- Evidence of recent selection: Pritchard named HHMI investigator
- 05.27.2008
- Media Advisory: UN Official to Hold Hearings on Human Rights Violations in the City of Chicago
- 05.23.2008
- University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer and University Economist Gary Becker named to committee that recommends National Medal of Science Awardees
- 05.22.2008
- Solar system book dedicated to Robert Clayton, 'Mr. Oxygen'
- 05.22.2008
- UChicago Argonne, LLC to host 33rd-annual Awards Program at Argonne
- 05.21.2008
- Chicago Statistician of the Year: David Wallace
- 05.20.2008
- University of Chicago launches first archaeological dig at site of 1893 World's Fair
- 05.19.2008
- Cancer drug may help patients with heart-lung disease
- 05.19.2008
- Frequently Asked Questions about the University's purchase of the Chicago Theological Seminary building
- 05.16.2008
- Mayor Daley honors University for Employer Assisted Housing Program
- 05.15.2008
- Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressure
- 05.15.2008
- University of Chicago economists to focus their pioneering research in new institute honoring the memory of Milton Friedman
- 05.15.2008
- University of Chicago purchases Harper Court, partners with City to revitalize 53rd Street
- 05.13.2008
- Weather workshop predicts successful outcomes for teachers, students
- 05.13.2008
- University of Chicago receives $25 million gift from Morningstar CEO in support of new Library building
- 05.12.2008
- University of Chicago students hosting the world's largest scavenger hunt this week
- 05.08.2008
- Madeleine Albright to speak at Rockefeller Chapel 5 p.m., Tuesday
- 05.08.2008
- Media Advisory: How Climate Change is Impacting Siberia; Effects on indigenous populations of Siberia to be considered
- 05.06.2008
- University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies offers free summer classes in Arabic and Chinese to talented Chicago Public School students
- 05.02.2008
- Argonne supercomputer to simulate extreme physics of exploding stars
- 05.01.2008
- Paleontologist to appear on PBS 'First Flower' documentary May 6
- 04.30.2008
- Drug developed at the University of Chicago wins FDA approval
- 04.30.2008
- Chicago students to perform an opera about coffee
- 04.30.2008
- Divinity School Conference Honoring Tracy to Focus on Augustine
- 04.29.2008
- University of Chicago Laboratory Schools receive $10 million gift
- 04.29.2008
- Postal Service pays tribute to astronomer Edwin Hubble
- 04.28.2008
- Chicago Tribune's Steven Kloehn named news director at University of Chicago
- 04.28.2008
- Actress Fiona Shaw to Visit Campus as Artspeaks Fellow
- 04.25.2008
- Nobel Laureate Gary Becker to receive 2008 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement
- 04.24.2008
- Mexican social development secretariat teams with National Opinion Research Center to study ways to improve Mexican development
- 04.24.2008
- Researchers reveal structure of protein that repairs damage to cancer cells
- 04.23.2008
- “India Blooms in Chicago” showcases Indian narrative dance
- 04.23.2008
- Genome analysis reveals new protein associated with breast cancer progression
- 04.17.2008
- Older Americans are more socially engaged than you may think
- 04.16.2008
- With age comes happiness, University of Chicago study shows
- 04.16.2008
- Students and faculty make use of the University of Chicago’s Darfur Action and Education Fund
- 04.16.2008
- University of Chicago celebrating Earth Week with events across campus
- 04.16.2008
- Cosmologist accepts joint appointment at Fermilab, U. of Chicago: Craig Hogan to lead particle astrophysics effort
- 04.15.2008
- Divinity School Names Emilie M. Townes Alumna of the Year for 2008
- 04.15.2008
- New Dean for Rockefeller Chapel named
- 04.14.2008
- HipHopistan to showcase South Asian hip hop
- 04.14.2008
- University of Chicago Law School eliminates Internet access in some classrooms
- 04.11.2008
- Student aid initiatives increase at the University of Chicago as College tuition rises
- 04.10.2008
- University of Chicago joins collaboration with city to reduce youth gun violence
- 04.10.2008
- Gene variant increases risk of asthma
- 04.10.2008
- University of Chicago establishes Federal Relations Office; A. Scott Sudduth named to represent the University in Washington
- 04.08.2008
- International students want to learn about living in America as well as learning in America
- 04.08.2008
- Oriental Institute Exhibition, Conferences, Mark Fifth Anniversary of looting of the Iraq National Museum
- 04.05.2008
- “Women on the Verge” Conference to Examine Tragic Heroines
- 04.04.2008
- Drug developed at the University of Chicago wins approval in Canada
- 04.04.2008
- Replacing absent microRNAs could make tumors less invasive, more treatable
- 04.04.2008
- Will the Hip Hop Generation Have an Impact on the 2008 election?
- 04.04.2008
- Civic Knowledge Project event to focus on raising the visibility of arts organizations on Chicago’s Southside
- 04.03.2008
- Chicago Council for Science and Technology to Present: “If Exercise is Medicine, Why Don’t We Do It?” on April 10, 2008
- 04.03.2008
- “Race, Sex, Power” Conference to Examine Black and Latino Sexuality
- 04.02.2008
- University of Chicago Law School issues statement on Obama's time as Senior Lecturer
- 03.31.2008
- Hans Haacke to Present "Dog and Pony Show" at Court Theatre
- 03.28.2008
- Free lecture series to peer behind exotic claims about universe
- 03.25.2008
- Cosmologists probe mystery of dark energy with South Pole Telescope
- 03.24.2008
- Radiologists, physicists to team up at March 27 meeting
- 03.24.2008
- University reiterates stance on Sudan divestment in response to City Council resolution
- 03.20.2008
- Templeton Foundation funds major study of entrepreneurship in developing world
- 03.20.2008
- Chicago neuroscientist contributes to book on brains and baseball
- 03.17.2008
- Leslie Kay named new Director of University of Chicago’s Institute for Mind and Biology
- 03.17.2008
- Research with squirrels provides clues on hormone's role in human learning
- 03.14.2008
- Breast cancer in black women may be connected to neighborhood conditions
- 03.14.2008
- Study provides clues to prevent spread of ovarian cancer
- 03.13.2008
- Research by Melissa Roderick shows weak school support, financial aid hurdles derail even most qualified Chicago students on road to college
- 03.12.2008
- University of Chicago professors awarded Sloan Fellowships
- 03.12.2008
- 'Images of Prayer, Politics and Everyday Jewish Life' opens at the University of Chicago Library on March 10
- 03.07.2008
- Argonne Director Robert Rosner to speak on the future of science in Illinois
- 03.07.2008
- Gift supports visiting professorship in Human Rights
- 03.07.2008
- Herbert Thelen, 1913-2008
- 03.05.2008
- Slavoj Zizek, philosopher and cultural critic, to deliver Romberg Lecture
- 03.04.2008
- Newly developed anti-malarial medicine treats toxoplasmosis
- 03.04.2008
- University of Chicago, city and leading non-profit start program to boost employment in mid-south neighborhoods
- 03.04.2008
- New target for cancer therapy may improve treatment for solid tumors
- 03.03.2008
- Franco Moretti, leading scholar of the novel, to deliver Carpenter Lecture
- 03.03.2008
- Two University of Chicago students receive scholarships to study in England
- 02.29.2008
- Gene expression differences between those of European and African ancestry affect response to drugs and infections
- 02.28.2008
- Joseph M. Williams, Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics, 1933 – 2008
- 02.28.2008
- University of Chicago celebrates grand opening of new diversity center
- 02.27.2008
- Hanna H. Gray, President Emerita, receives History Maker award from Chicago Historical Society
- 02.25.2008
- Law School's Mandel Legal Aid Clinic to celebrate 50th anniversary with symposium Saturday
- 02.21.2008
- Academic and research recruitment group holds first conference
- 02.20.2008
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to speak on campus this Wednesday
- 02.18.2008
- Personalized medicine can cut breast cancer risk
- 02.15.2008
- Brain waves pattern themselves after rhythms of nature
- 02.15.2008
- Anne Carr, Theologian, 1934 - 2008
- 02.14.2008
- Immigration expert to talk Feb. 20 at University of Chicago
- 02.14.2008
- Metabolic syndrome linked to cold tolerance
- 02.14.2008
- COUPP experiment tightens limits on dark matter
- 02.14.2008
- Math Dept. to host annual lecture series in applied mathematics featuring Harvard's Michael Brenner
- 02.13.2008
- New meat-eating dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks
- 02.13.2008
- Location matters, even for genes
- 02.13.2008
- University of Chicago Ensemble-in-Residence eighth blackbird wins Grammy Awards
- 02.11.2008
- University of Chicago Library reunites 'most popular medieval love poem' with its mate
- 02.07.2008
- Study of successful drug targets could hasten development of new drugs
- 02.01.2008
- Izaak Wirszup, 1915 - 2008
- 01.31.2008
- Personal tributes to Izaak Wirszup
- 01.31.2008
- Physicists explain dance marathon of wispy feature in roiling fluids
- 01.31.2008
- Inherited individual variations influence patterns of gene shuffling
- 01.31.2008
- Survey: two-thirds of Illinois public schools provide comprehensive sex education
- 01.30.2008
- “Religion and the City” conference marks 10th anniversary of Marty Center
- 01.30.2008
- Anthony Tuzzolino, Space Physicist, 1931-2008
- 01.29.2008
- Keck Foundation grants $1.8 million to University of Chicago for catastrophic deformation research
- 01.28.2008
- University research says private equity effect on jobs is mixed
- 01.25.2008
- University's International House to host 34th annual China conference
- 01.24.2008
- Arts@UChicago: Winter contemporary art showcase in Hyde Park
- 01.23.2008
- Gifts from John U. Nef and his wife, Evelyn Stefansson Nef, support Committee on Social Thought
- 01.23.2008
- Cultural Policy Center study findings spur panel discussion
- 01.22.2008
- People not always needed to alleviate loneliness
- 01.18.2008
- Medical Center renovation project wins historical honors
- 01.18.2008
- Angela Davis to deliver annual George E. Kent Lecture at the University of Chicago
- 01.17.2008
- University of Chicago alumni ranked first for 2007 Peace Corps volunteers
- 01.14.2008
- Keynote speaker Loretta Ross to anchor the University of Chicago's weeklong Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
- 01.10.2008
- University of Chicago features director Peter Sellars at Mandel Hall
- 01.10.2008
- University of Chicago Annual Polar Bear Run and Salute to the Sun to be held Friday, Jan. 18
- 01.10.2008
- The Quad Club Revels return with “Good as Gold”
- 01.10.2008
- Lecture Thursday looks at African-American men and health care
- 01.09.2008
- Recurrent genetic deletion linked to autism
- 01.08.2008
- Carlos Kenig receives 2008 Bôcher Prize in mathematics
- 01.08.2008
- New book reveals an evolutionary journey of the human body
- 01.08.2008
- First rigorous analysis defines impact of Medicare Part D
- 01.08.2008
- Machinists build precision scientific instruments for South Pole, Mars, places in between
- 01.07.2008