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Brain key to ‘choking’ under pressure

Sian Beilock studies why good performers fail—and how they succeed.

Brain key to 'choking' under pressure

Sian Beilock studies why good performers fail—and how they succeed.


William Harms

Scholars revive China’s broken treasures

Historical sleuthing and digital techniques help Smart Museum recreate Buddhist cave temples.


Susie Allen

Helping the world’s poor claim legal rights

When lawyers for International Justice Mission first encountered a Kenyan inmate named Peter in late 2009, he had been languishing in prison without bail for 12 months on charges of robbery with violence—an offense punishable by death.


Sarah Galer

Finding what makes constitutions endure

When the government of Kenya wanted outside advice this year on drafts of the country’s new constitution, one of their consultants was University of Chicago Law School professor Tom Ginsburg, one of the world’s foremost experts on how to write an ...


Sarah Galer

Center in Beijing opens with focus on collaboration

As nine pairs of scissors sliced through scarlet ribbon, a cheer went up on Wednesday from hundreds of people who filled the gleaming halls and galleries and classrooms of the University of Chicago’s Center in Beijing.


Brooke O’Neill