Education & Social Service

Fate of independent research institutes hangs in the budgetary balance

Partnership between Marine Biological Laboratory and UChicago comes at a time of precarious funding for independent research institutes


Scientific American

When it comes to murder, Chicago is two cities

Chicago Harris student Daniel Hertz crunches numbers, provides graphic view of city's inequality


Chicago sees progress, but kids still caught in crossfire

Prof. Harold Pollack comments on ongoing violence, as city faces summertime rise in crime


U.S. News & World Report

A summer of data hacking social problems

Computation Institute's Rayid Ghani teaching young data scientists this summer through fellowship program


Poverty Protection

Fundamental changes to the safety net have impacted how it shields families from the Great Recession.


School of Social Service Administration

Over 1 million respond to first statewide education survey

Urban Education Institute and State Board of Education query students, teachers and parents in effort to improve public schools


Want your kids to learn more words? Use your hands, study says

University research finds that parents who put words into context can help young children develop language more easily


Israeli-Chicago plan to study water shortages touted

Institute for Molecular Engineering Dir. Matthew Tirrell will direct Chicago team in research partnership with Jerusalem's Ben-Gurion University


Priest, novelist, sociologist Andrew Greeley laid to rest

Hundreds mourn former UChicago research associate and Catholic clergyman, known as a 'voice in the wilderness'


Honoring excellence in teaching

Awards pay tribute to inspiring teachers of undergraduates and graduate students.