Breaking news on research efforts and the latest events at the University of Chicago. http://news.uchicago.edu An aspiring anthropologist with a focus on human rights and a student of the American justice system have been awarded prestigious academic scholarships for study in the United Kingdom. Stephanie Bell, a 2008 graduate of the College at the University of Chicago, i ... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1786 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1786 The University of Chicago is leading a nationwide movement among colleges and universities to integrate human rights teaching and research into liberal arts curriculum. This week, the University is hosting a Human Rights Teaching Roundtable, to review progress i ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1785 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1785 Christian Kammerer extended the University of Chicago’s winning streak for the Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize to three in a row at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology last month in Bristol, England. The SVP awards the prize annually to ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1781 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1781 Human capital, a leading approach used to understand the role of education and job training in the economy, has been the subject of seminal research at the University of Chicago. On Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21, scholars from around the world will gather f ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1782 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1782 A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth-like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named speci ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1783 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1783 Albert V. Crewe, who obtained the first images of atoms ever taken in an electron microscope, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, of complications from Parkinson’s disease at his home in Dune Acres, Ind. He was 82. In 1964 Crewe, a professor emeritus in physics at the ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1784 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1784 In an effort to combat violence involving Chicago public school students, the University of Chicago Crime Lab and community partners will launch a new program designed to help hundreds of boys avoid conflict and succeed in school and life. The University of Chicag ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1777 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1777 The University of Chicago has received a $91,000 grant to help research collaborators across the nation prepare their proposals for petascale computing projects on Blue Waters, which is expected to be the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open scientifi ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1778 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1778 The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman. Alpert will receive the award in J ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1779 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1779 Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells. Two new studies advance that ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1780 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1780 Academic leaders and elected officials on Tuesday, Nov. 17 announced the launch of ScienceWorksForUs, an initiative that will highlight scientific research and related activities made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The centerpiec ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1776 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1776 Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing. “FutureGrid is a very exciting project; we do have production resourc ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1773 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1773 This past July, recent Law School graduates Brynn Lyerly and Stephanie Holmes sat in a Chicago courtroom as their client listened to a federal judge reduce a 22–year drug crime sentence to 10 years, a huge victory for the legal team. During the preceding schoo ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1774 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1774 Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will visit the University of Chicago's Kovler Diabetes Center on World Diabetes Day--Saturday, November 14--from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to share his experience with diabetes with teens affected by the disease and tour some of the worl ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1772 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1772 For two years David Plouffe worked side by side with Barack Obama, charting the course of his 2008 presidential bid as his chief campaign manager. Plouffe will share his insights and lessons from the campaign as part of the International House Global Voices Auth ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CDT http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1771 http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1771