Videos

At the UChicago Center in Delhi, renowned poets Cole Swensen and Rukmini Bhaya Nair read out a selection from their works and led a discussion on contemporary poetry.

Executive director and chief curator Solveig Øvstebø explains the mission of The Renaissance Society, a 100-year-old non-collecting contemporary art museum on the campus of the University of Chicago. Located in Cobb Hall on the fourth floor and earli...

In celebration of the University of Chicago's 125th anniversary, this event will feature Professor and Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Ariel Kalil and Professor and former Harris Dean Susan Mayer. Kalil and Mayer co-direct ...

Joan Harris, president and past chair of the Irving Harris Foundation, reflects on her late husband’s pivotal role in the formation of the Harris School of Public Policy. She spoke at a Harris School event celebrating the University of Chicago’s 12...

In celebration of the University of Chicago's 125th anniversary, this event will feature Professor and Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Ariel Kalil and Professor and former Harris Dean Susan Mayer. Kalil and Mayer co-direct ...

Delivering the first Friedman Forum of the 2015–16 academic year, Hugo F. Sonnenschein lectured University of Chicago undergraduates on John Nash’s work on game theory, which included theories of bargaining. 

This is the first in a series of lectures in the seminar “Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science: The Local Certificates Algorithm” at the University of Chicago, given by László Babai, the George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor in the De...

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to as a “soda tax,” effective January 2014. Jeffrey Grogger, the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy at the University of Chicag...

Trina Janiec Jones (Wofford College) had her dissertation colloquium in Swift Hall on September 12th, 2001. The events of the previous day not only impacted her colloquium, but eventually, also took her teaching career and scholarly interests in direc...

This event brought together a panel of three leading economists—Thomas Piketty, Kevin Murphy, and Steven Durlauf—to discuss the sources of the rise in inequality in advanced industrialized countries over the past 40 years, the problems it poses, a...