Big Science: Big Challenges Panel Discussion
Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago; Piermaria Oddone, Fermilab Director; Eric Isaacs, Argonne National Laboratory Director, and Trudy Vincent, UChicago Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, discuss the promise and challe...
Big Science: Big Challenges
Researchers and science advocates at UChicago, Argonne, Fermilab, and the Museum of Science and Industry discuss the promise and challenges of doing big science. Those interviewed include Michelle Le Beau and Olaf Schneewind of the University of Chi...
Life Inside the White House: Obama Staffers Reflect
From The West Wing to House of Cards, TV shows and movies have long attempted to take us inside the White House. But what’s life really like working inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? We’ll go behind the scenes with former members of the Obama a...
The New Digital Age with Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s visionary leaders, having taken Google from a small start-up to one of the world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former advisor to sec...
Ambiguity and the Historical Equity Premium
Sujoy Mukerji, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, presents on the underlying research of his recent paper, “Ambiguity and the Historical Equity Premium.” This paper assesses the quantitative impact of ambiguity on the historically ...
Children Whose Parents Have Experienced Childhood Trauma: Challenges, Obligations, and Reasonable Efforts for Reunification
Whether parents can overcome the problems that lead to abuse and neglect of their children is the essence of questions surrounding efforts to return children to their parents once legal custody of a child has been granted to the child welfare agency. C...
Cass R. Sunstein and “Simpler: The Future of Government”
As Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for three years under the Obama administration, Cass R. Sunstein oversaw a far-reaching restructuring of America’s regulatory state. He discusses his book “Simpler: Th...
Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
Does the U.S. Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Peter Sagal—host of "Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!"—recently hit the road to find out. In his new four-part PBS series, Sagal travels across the country by motorcycle in ...
Christopher Houlihan in Concert: Gerrish Organ Performance Series
Dazzling young organist Christopher Houlihan returns to Rockefeller Chapel to play a virtuoso recital of music by J.S. Bach, Debussy, Duruflé, Saint-Saëns, and Liszt. This is the fourth annual recital in the Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series. Th...
Seminary Co-Op Grand Opening: Aleksandar Hemon’s Keynote Address
Aleksandar Hemon, award-winning and best-selling author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles, and The Book of My Lives, delivered a keynote talk for the grand opening of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Hy...