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Poverty and Growth:Reflections on Latin America - Growth, Poverty, and Economic Development

The second in a three-part workshop on poverty and growth in Latin America with Professor Juan Pablo Nicolini, Winter Tinker Visiting Professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

Songs of Chicago, Bond Chapel

The Chicago Men's A Cappella (a registered student organization) presents a special performance in Bond Chapel of music from the University of Chicago for University alumni and friends.

Jaws, the Early Years

As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, evolutionary biologist Michael Coates explores the fossil record to present the monstrous precursors of the shark in Jaws: The Early Years.

Physics at the Breakfast Table

As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, physicist Sidney Nagel discusses several familiar phenomena that are so ubiquitous that we hardly realize they defy our normal intuition in Physics at the Breakfast Table.

How the World Became Green

As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, marine biologist Michael LaBarbera tells the strange and curious story of how blue-green algae evolved into chloroplasts that were subsequently traded and lost by various organisms in How t...

The Dark Side of the Universe

As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, cosmologist Rocky Kolb talks about the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of the universe in The Dark Side of the Universe.