Videos

The Return of Interruption

Poet, essayist, and translator, Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of fourteen books of poetry, including The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000), Happily (Post Apollo Press, 2000), Sight (with Leslie Scalapino, 1999), The Cold of Poetry (1994), T...

Advertising as Strategic Investment

Sanjay Dhar, marketing professor in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, investigates the strategic role of advertising investments in the formation of long-run industrial market structures. (c)2006 The University of Chicago.

Rethinking the National Brand

Sanjay Dhar, of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, observes several striking geographic patterns in the performance of national brands. (c)2006 The University of Chicago

Biological Microsystems

Milan Mrksich, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, discusses his research on integrating living cells with non-living engineered microsystems to create hybrid devices. (c) 2006 The University of Chicago

Peter Filkins Reading

Peter Filkins is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University, where he received his M.F.A. in poetry. An Associate Professor in the Division of Languages & Literature at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, F...

Tiktaalik: Fish out of Water

Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Shubin and his colleagues describe the species in the April 6, 2006 issue of Nature.

Presidential Press Conference

The Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago has officially elected Robert J. Zimmer to be the 13th President of the University of Chicago. Zimmer, who has been serving as provost of Brown University, was nominated by the Presidential Search Comm...

Stand Fast, Chicago: Archival Video from 1991

Celebrating the University's centennial, this video was produced in 1991 for the Alumni Association. With a runtime of 16 minutes, it's chock-full of history, humor, and nostalgia. Take a few minutes to reminisce…

On Documentary Filmmaking

Errol Morris, innovative director of 'Gates of Heaven,' 'The Thin Blue Line' and 'Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control,' visited the University of Chicago as the first in the Nuveen Visiting Filmmakers series. With his portraits of the everyday, bizarre and...

Student Use of the Library

On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspecti...