Former President Obama discusses civic engagement at UChicago event

UChicago representatives presented updated plans for the Arts Block in Washington Park at an April 19 meeting and asked community residents for input on arts programming and the next phase...Read more

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

Former president talks with students at first public event since leaving White House

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

Events include Hindu and Muslim concert, premiere of composition by Augusta Read Thomas

The University of Chicago will commemorate Earth Day with a series of events designed to inform and engage the campus community on ongoing research, student-driven initiatives and sustainable projects. The...Read more

Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow will deliver this year’s Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, in which she will explore the resilience of language and gesture in the way people communicate. The free...Read more

Five members of the UChicago faculty are among the 228 members elected to the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Profs. Lenore Grenoble, Young-Kee Kim,...Read more

Third-year Soreti Teshome hopes to represent those in marginalized communities

Third-years Pradnya Narkhede and Clare Singer to pursue graduate research in sciences

When UChicago’s Arts, Science & Culture Initiative began in 2010, program director and curator Julie Marie Lemon had a vision of artists and scientists working together, sharing approaches and deep...Read more

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support an initiative to recruit junior scholars from diverse backgrounds, as part of the University of Chicago’s commitment to continue developing...Read more

Former White House chef to deliver Frizzell Lecture on food security

Renovations beginning this spring will provide a vibrant new home in the John Crerar Library building for the Department of Computer Science and the Computation Institute . Included as well...Read more

Prof. Kenneth Warren discusses UChicago’s celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks

Laurie Zoloth, a leader in the field of religious studies with particular scholarly interest in bioethics and Jewish studies, has been appointed dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School...Read more

Katherine Baicker, a leading scholar in the economic analysis of health care policy, has been appointed the next dean of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy ...Read more

Prof. Augusta Read Thomas to serve as inaugural director