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UChicago’s Crown Family School dedicates building after founding dean Edith Abbott

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The Dedication of Edith Abbott Hall at the University of Chicago

Man walking in front of Overton Elementary School in Bronzeville, one of many schools shuttered during Chicago's wave of school closings in 2013.

UChicago Press awards top honor to Eve L. Ewing’s ‘Ghosts in the Schoolyard’

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What we’ve learned from a year of COVID-19

Children in Ghana learning about water quality from wells and streams.

$25 million gift to UChicago will support work on global health and social development

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In new book, scholar offers intimate portrait of mass incarceration’s toll on society

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COVID-19 has exposed health disparities. How do we address them before the next pandemic?

Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Landmark gift to UChicago is nation’s largest ever for the study of social work, policy, and practice

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UChicago study offers insight into how Latino families navigate childcare

Edith Abbott (right) and Sophonisba Breckinridge (left)

How UChicago helped transform social work education