Videos

Expose Yourself: Current Graduate Research across Disciplines

Throughout the academic year, UChicago’s Expose Yourself series gives graduate students the opportunity to learn about research taking place across disciplines. We invite alumni into the exciting conversations taking place between the genetics and hu...

Behind the Scenes with Soledad O’Brien

Award-winning journalist and CNN special correspondent Soledad O’Brien delivered a keynote address at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, 2013. O’Brien, a Kovler Visiting Fellow, spoke about her l...

A Symposium for Richard Strier

This video contains the proceedings of a symposium given in honor of Richard Strier, the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. The symposiu...

Fadela Amara, speaking on "The Burqa Ban in France"

In September 2010, the French Parliament made it illegal to wear a burqa in public areas, with 70 percent of public support. The ban received vigorous applause from the prominent French feminist organization Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Sub...

A Conversation with Elie Wiesel

Called a "messenger to mankind," Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel sits down with David Axelrod, director of the UChicago Institute of Politics, for a wide-ranging conversation about the humanitarian’s life, his work, and his views on the world to...

James Hevia on The Afterlives of Ruins: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West

James Hevia, Professor of International History, traced some of the history of the Qing imperial garden and its artifacts taken to the West.

Conte Center's Second Annual Brain Awareness Day: Program Overview by Dr. Barry Aprison

Dr. Barry Aprison, Director of Education and Outreach at the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, provides the program overview at the Second Annual Brain Awareness Day hosted by the Conte Center for Computational Neuropsychiatric Genomics at th...

What Molecular Genetics Can Tell Us about How We Wake Up and Why We Sleep

Dr. Ravi Allada, Professor of Neurobiology at Northwestern University, speaks about “What Molecular Genetics Can Tell Us about How We Wake Up and Why We Sleep” at the Second Annual Brain Awareness Day hosted by the Conte Center for Computational Ne...

Nature and Nurture Remodeled: An Overview of the Conte Center

Dr. Ravinesh Kumar, Director of Research, provides an overview of the Conte Center for Computational Neuropsychiatric Genomics at the Second Annual Brain Awareness Day hosted at the University of Chicago (May 18, 2013).

Dr. Margit Burmeister speaks at Brain Awareness Day 2013

Dr. Margit Burmeister, Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School, speaks about “Genes and Experience Aren’t Everything When It Comes to Personality and Behavior” at the Second Annual Brain Awareness D...