Civic engagement
April 24, 2017
President Barack Obama joined young leaders from across Chicago on Monday, April 24, 2017, for a conversation on community organizing and civic engagement at the University of Chicago's Reva and...Read more
By Mark Peters
April 24, 2017
Former president talks with students at first public event since leaving White House
April 22, 2017
The University of Chicago will provide a live webcast of a campus event featuring former President Barack Obama on Monday, April 24. The event will be carried via Livestream webcast...Read more
Produced by UChicago Creative, University of Chicago Divinity School
December 14, 2015
"The War on Drugs – A New Paradigm: Health Not Punishment." Rev. Alexander E. Sharp (MDiv'96), speaking on the work of Clergy for a New Drug Policy. CNDP, of which...Read more
Produced by UChicago Creative, University of Chicago Divinity School
December 14, 2015
Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Department of English and the Committee on Creative Writing. Prof. Tran, who joined the UChicago faculty in 2010, has...Read more
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December 14, 2015
Richard A. Rosengarten , Dean and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, kick off our 2015-2016 Lunch program. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At...Read more
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November 20, 2015
Hank Owings , 2nd-year Divinity School student and a Baha'i, brings back our popular 101/Lunch crossover series with "Baha'i 101." "101s" are a no-pressure, no-prior-knowledge-required opportunity for students to learn...Read more
July 2, 2015
The arts are a core community asset, and the South Side of Chicago recently served as a shining example to 100 artists and arts administrators from around the country. As part of a two-day preconference for the annual Americans for the Arts convention, they journeyed to the South Side to engage in case- and place-based learning about the values, policies, and practices required to achieve and sustain cultural equity.
Produced by UChicago Creative, University of Chicago Divinity School
April 27, 2015
Gender JUST: Queer Politics Outside the Mainstream. Gender JUST is a multi-racial, multi-generational collective with a diversity of marginalized gender and sexual identities, skills, cultures, abilities, citizenship status, educational backgrounds...Read more
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April 27, 2015
Chad Broughton on "Boom, Bust, Exodus." Dr. Broughton is a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College. He is the author of Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt,...Read more
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April 27, 2015
Julia Parzen , speaking on Sustainability: A Framework for Solving Complex Urban Problems. Julia Parzen is a social entrepreneur who cofounded Working Assets, one of the first socially responsible mutual...Read more
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March 26, 2015
The Enhancing Life Project team will speak on this three-year grant project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The project will draw together 35 international scholars to address the profound...Read more
Produced by UChicago Creative, University of Chicago Divinity School
March 26, 2015
Our guest for today is the Student Counseling Service (SCS) liaison to the Divinity School community. Michael Pietrus , Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago...Read more
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March 12, 2015
Dean's Forum on the new edition (University of Chicago Press, 2014) of The Journey To The West by Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, with responses...Read more
Produced by University of Chicago Divinity School, UChicago Creative
February 20, 2015
Demond Drummer, speaking. Drummer, an MA student at the Divinity School, was the recent recipient of a Community Programs Accelerator grant for his CoderSpace project. Drummer is also a founding...Read more
Produced by Arts Incubator, UChicago Creative
September 8, 2014
View the public presentation of the University of Chicago’s Garfield Boulevard planning concepts as presented on July 26, 2014, at the Block Party: A Celebration of Arts and Culture on...Read more
By Sarah Nolan
May 20, 2014
The University of Chicago has unveiled its new global engagement website: global.uchicago.edu . It highlights ongoing UChicago study abroad programs, research initiatives and partnerships in more than 38 countries and...Read more
By Dianna Douglas
September 26, 2012
Starting with this year's group of incoming undergraduates, the University of Chicago is giving first-year students an expanded introduction to Chicago's diverse communities and to service opportunities at many of...Read more
By Calmetta Coleman
August 30, 2012
One night about 40 years ago, Rudy and Joyce Nimocks were walking home along the 6100 block of South Greenwood Avenue, in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, when a young boy they...Read more
By William Harms
March 7, 2012
As two researchers in an economics project at UChicago looked on via videoconference, a class of south suburban eighth-graders took turns coming to a microphone to explain what the expression...Read more