Understanding Inequality and What to Do About It
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, an...
Alumni Emeriti Fall Webinar 2015
The Alumni Emeriti Webinar Committee welcomes Sara Ray Stoelinga, AB’95, AM’01, PhD’04, the Sara Liston Spurlark Director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, for a conversation about the history, challenges, and hopeful develo...
Wednesday Lunch with Rev. Alexander E. Sharp
"The War on Drugs – A New Paradigm: Health Not Punishment." Rev. Alexander E. Sharp (MDiv'96), speaking on the work of Clergy for a New Drug Policy. CNDP, of which Rev. Sharp is the founder and executive director, mobilizes clergy nationally...
Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory
Tom Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses the new book, “Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory,” which he coauthored with Nuno Garoupa. Judges are society’s elders and exp...
University of Chicago Harper Lectures: Bring Your Curiosity
Explore history, the arts, or the inside of your own brain with University of Chicago faculty around the world. Harper Lectures offer a chance to learn while connecting with the UChicago community. alumni.uchicago.edu/harper
Wednesday Lunch with Vu Tran
Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Department of English and the Committee on Creative Writing. Prof. Tran, who joined the UChicago faculty in 2010, has published his short fiction widely, and is the author of the noir novel...
Looking Askance: Talk by UChicago Faculty and Students from the Department of Visual Arts
Drawing on India’s long tradition of documentary photography, Looking Askance considers contemporary photographic works from the University of Chicago that respond to current events and media imagery. These works complicate what it means to “bear w...
Cocktails & Conversations with Charles Plosser and Lars Peter Hansen
How has monetary policy helped in nurturing a sluggish recovery? What expectations should the public have for the role of monetary policy in the future? How do Federal Reserve decision-makers confront or cope with uncertainty when designing and impleme...
Eckhardt Research Center to foster precision science and engineering
The new William Eckhardt Research Center at the University of Chicago will host a broad spectrum of 21st-century science, from investigation of the deepest cosmic mysteries to manipulations of matter on the scale of atoms and molecules. The building is...
Chemical Mind: The Battle of Thermopylae and the Discovery of Anesthetics
The Fourth Annual Brain Awareness Day program was produced on Saturday, October 24th, 2015 in the auditorium of the University of Chicago’s Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery. The event was sponsored by the NIH Conte Center for Computational Neuro...