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A website developed by University of Chicago alumnus Aza Raskin, AB’05, allows users to listen to music for free.

An unprecedented conference brings thirty scholars to Chicago to rethink the way humans and the world interact.

The University of Chicago established the Milton Friedman Institute to honor the contributions of the famed Chicago scholar, considered by many to be the leading economist of the 20th century.

The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library was designed by acclaimed architect Helmut Jahn and will have the capacity to house up to 3.5 million volumes of print material—setting the University of Chicago apart from peers who are moving books off-campus.

University of Chicago’s Sudhir Srivastava is one of the few surgeons worldwide to use minimally invasive robotic tools.

Rebecca Terry, graduate student in Geophysical Sciences, was awarded the 2007 Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Sudhir Venkatesh, AM'92, PhD'97, chronicles the lives of those whose livelihoods are off the books.

History professor Bernard Wasserstein’s new book examines how the 20th century’s march to civilization coincided with “some of the most savage episodes” of violence in history.

Two College students are among the 321 national students named Goldwater scholars by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for their outstanding achievements in science.