The Urban Health initiative: Improving a Health Care Ecosystem
Chicago's South Side community, made up of one million people in more than 30 neighborhoods, has a critical need for quality health care. It's among the unhealthiest in the country, with high rates of diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and other chronic c...
Oriental Institute Takes Persian Empire into Digital Age
The Oriental Institute is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, when pieced together, will tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian Empire.These ancient tablets from the palaces of Persepolis include pieces of la...
Political Blog Spotlights America in Paris
The French avidly watched the U.S. presidential election last year along with the rest of the world, leaving many hungry for an American perspective of the process.Enter Bernard Harcourt, the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Professor of Political S...
Answers to common questions about Swine Flu
Pandemic is a scary word. It summons images of the 1918 global influenza pandemic, which claimed perhaps 60 million lives and continues to shape our responses to influenza today.But in light of the new swine flu reported in Mexico and in parts of this ...
Pop star puts campus singers in limelight
When the University of Chicago a cappella group Voices in Your Head recorded a song Ben Folds made famous, the 12 student-singers just wanted an interesting piece of music for their latest album, Note to Self.Then Folds, an academically trained multi-i...
The 2009 Alumnus of the Year address by Roger Ellwood
The 2009 Alumnus of the Year speech by Roger Ellwood (Phd, History of Religions, 1967). Ellwood was a professor of world religions at the University of Southern California for thirty years, from 1967 until his retirement in 1997. He served as Chairman...
Obama's Supreme Court
A common perception is that since the Supreme Court frequently divides 5-4, it is balanced between conservatives and liberals. The vote breakdown, however, does not tell us anything about the Court's ideological breakdown. The Supreme Court has discret...
iCream Cafe
A new ice cream shop in Wicker Park founded by two alumni of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business gives the customer total control of their frozen treats. Co-owner Cora Shaw talks about how the project got started and what makes iCream so...
(7 of 7) America and Chicago's Health Safety Net: A Century of Continuity and Change
This symposium reflects on the role of various health care reform approaches—what they are and ought to be—for vulnerable populations. · Lu Ann Aday, PhD, Lorne D. Bain Distinguished Professor Emerita in Public Health and Medicine at th...