What Can Auctioneers Teach Us About Auctions? Evidence from Manheim Car Auctions
Devin Pope, an associate professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, examines how auctioneers themselves can affect auction outcomes, as observed during wholesale car auctions.
The University of Chicago Aims of Athletics
University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer and Vice President Karen Warren Coleman speak to scholar-athletes about varsity athletics at the University of Chicago. Athletic Director Erin McDermott delivers an "Aims of Athletics" address highlighti...
Timuel Black: ‘I’m not ready to go anywhere yet’
At age 95, Timuel Black, AM’54, believes his work to carry on the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. is far from over. To learn more about Black’s life and career, read this story or watch these videos.
Timuel Black: Working with Martin Luther King Jr.
Timuel Black, AM’54, helped organize Freedom Trains, filled with thousands of Chicagoans, who heard Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. To learn more about Black’s life and career, read this story or watch these...
Timuel Black: Cheating death during World War II
Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how “the flip of a coin” may have saved him from death on the beaches of Normandy—and how his mother’s words helped him endure the horrors of World War II. To learn more about Black’s life and career, read thi...
Timuel Black: Growing up in Chicago’s “Black Belt”
Timuel Black, AM’54, recalls how growing up in the “Black Belt” on the South Side of Chicago was like growing up “in a city within a city.” To learn more about Black’s life and career, read this story or watch these videos.
Timuel Black: World War II spurred career in civil rights
Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp evoked memories of his enslaved ancestors and cast his career on a path toward ensuring equal rights for all. To learn more about Black’s life and career, read this stor...
Amy Hollywood on "On the True, the Real, and Critique in the Study of Religion"
The Philosophy of Religions Workshop, the Literature & Philosophy Workshop and the Religion & Literature Club present Professor Amy Hollywood speaking about material from her forthcoming book, “Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: On Mysticism, Histor...
Wednesday Lunch: South Side Projections
Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course ...
A Conversation with Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore on their New Book
University of Chicago Law School faculty members Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum discuss a new book they have co-edited, “American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature.” Levmore is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor o...