Welcome to Milestones, a quick update of promotions, awards, grants, obituaries and new hires. We will provide regular updates of this space, so please send your information to news@uchicago.edu.
Announcements
UChicago Awards $419,000 to Argonne-University collaborators (Nov. 23)
University seed grants spur collaboration with Argonne and Fermilab, spark DOE support (Nov. 23)
Grant to help recruit collaborators for Blue Waters supercomputer (Nov. 18)
FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation (Nov. 16)
Lars Peter Hansen named founding director of Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (Nov. 5)
Anne and Kenneth Griffin provide $10 million for multi-year study on school improvement (Oct. 8)
Himberger to lead NORC research on Security, Energy, and the Environment (Sept. 29)
New dynamic study space opens at Harper Library (Sept. 28)
University joins in effort to disseminate news on research discoveries (Sept. 16)
University makes two key arts appointments (Sept. 9)
Schill appointed next dean of University of Chicago Law School (Sept. 8)
Awards
Chabad Jewish Center to honor Chicago Booth's Peltzman (Nov. 27)
UChicago graduates win Rhodes, Marshall Scholarships (Nov. 22)
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences honors Martha Nussbaum with Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award (Nov. 20)
University of Chicago takes third consecutive Romer Prize in paleontology (Nov. 19)
Mathematics prize goes to UChicago's Hannah Alpert (Nov. 18)
Chicago Booth's Aparna Labroo wins research award from Society for Consumer Psychology (Oct. 28)
President Barack Obama, a former Law School Senior Lecturer, wins Nobel Peace Prize (Oct. 9)
New chemistry Nobelist was UChicago visiting professor, conducted research at Argonne (Oct. 8)
Alumnus George E. Smith invents CCD sensor, 1969; receives Nobel Prize, 2009 (Oct. 6)
National Academies announce winners of 2009 Communication Awards (Sept. 30)
Law School honored for renovation of Saarinen-designed courtyard, reflecting pool (Sept. 4)
Obituaries
Albert V. Crewe, physicist, 1927-2009 (Nov. 19)
Malcolm Casadaban, molecular genetics specialist, 1949-2009 (Sept. 25)
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