College Diploma Ceremony, Spring 2015 – The University of Chicago
The Spring 2015 College Diploma Ceremony was held on the Main Quadrangle on June 13, 2015. President Robert J. Zimmer offered opening remarks, followed by Provost Eric D. Isaacs' introduction of the three student speakers chosen by their classmates and...
School of Social Service Administration Hooding Ceremony, Spring 2014
The School of Social Service Administration (SSA) Hooding Ceremony was held on June 12, 2015, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel as part of the University of Chicago's 523rd Convocation.
The 523rd Convocation, University Ceremony – The University of Chicago
The University Ceremony of the 523rd Convocation of the University of Chicago was held on June 13, 2015, on the Main Quadrangle. The University of Chicago Pipe Band led distinguished faculty and graduating students in a procession, followed by opening ...
Wendy Doniger on the University of Chicago’s Architectural “Neighborhoods”
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, discusses how different architectural styles coexist and complement one another on campus. Among these architecturally diverse buildings is the Divinity School, w...
Presentation of the 2015 Alumni Awards
This video captures the presentation of the trophies and medals to the alumni, faculty and students who were honored as the 74th Annual Alumni Award recipients. For more information about this year's recipients, please visit:https://alumniandfriends.uc...
UnCommon Core | Human Capital Investment, Inequality, and Growth
Recently the seeming permanence of the rise of earnings inequality has motivated policy proposals to mitigate its impact, including more progressive income taxation, wealth and inheritance taxes, and pay regulation. In this UnCommon Core, economist Kev...
UnCommon Core | Past for Sale: New Approaches to Archaeological Looting
The illicit antiquities market is a global problem with serious consequences for scientific knowledge, global politics, local cultural identities, and the objects themselves. Supported by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, the Past for Sal...
UnCommon Core | The Ethics of an Outbreak
Today’s globalized world has made effective containment of infectious diseases extremely difficult. The unprecedented Ebola outbreak has brought home the global nature of infectious disease and has raised some difficult dilemmas. Other infectious dis...
UnCommon Core | A Conversation with Nobelists
This panel of University of Chicago Nobel laureates features Lars Peter Hansen, the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, James J. Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, and Robert E. Lucas Jr...
UnCommon Core | The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best ...