Interview with 2008 Writer-in-Residence Jonathan Harr (Part 5)
In May 2008, the Chronicle had a lengthy conversation with Jonathan Harr, that year's Robert Vare Nonfiction writer-in-residence and the author of the best-seller, A Civil Action. Hear Harr talk about his move from fiction to nonfiction, his notorious...
Interview with 2008 Writer-in-Residence Jonathan Harr (Part 4)
In May 2008, the Chronicle had a lengthy conversation with Jonathan Harr, that year's Robert Vare Nonfiction writer-in-residence and the author of the best-seller, A Civil Action. Hear Harr talk about his move from fiction to nonfiction, his notorious...
Interview with 2008 Writer-in-Residence Jonathan Harr (Part 3)
In May 2008, the Chronicle had a lengthy conversation with Jonathan Harr, that year's Robert Vare Nonfiction writer-in-residence and the author of the best-seller, A Civil Action. Hear Harr talk about his move from fiction to nonfiction, his notorious...
Interview with 2008 Writer-in-Residence Jonathan Harr (Part 2)
In May 2008, the Chronicle had a lengthy conversation with Jonathan Harr, that year's Robert Vare Nonfiction writer-in-residence and the author of the best-seller, A Civil Action. Hear Harr talk about his move from fiction to nonfiction, his notorious...
Installation of New Rockefeller Dean
Elizabeth Davenport was formally installed as sixth Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on November 9th, 2008. She began the ceremony by knocking on the chapel door and was invited in, saying, "Peace be to this house and all who enter here."James Kall...
The Chicagoan Returns
Neil Harris, the Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art History, first ran across "The Chicagoan" at the Joseph Regenstein Library more than 12 years ago. Although the eminent historian had never before heard of the colorful J...
Interview with 2008 Writer-in-Residence Jonathan Harr (Part 1)
In May 2008, the Chronicle had a lengthy conversation with Jonathan Harr, that year's Robert Vare Nonfiction writer-in-residence and the author of the best-seller, A Civil Action. Hear Harr talk about his move from fiction to nonfiction, his notorious...
Out of Reach: Place, Poverty and the New American Welfare State
Scott W. Allard, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and author of the book, Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State discusses the impact of the current economic cris...
Child gesturing
Fourteen-month-olds who gesture to convey meaning have better vocabularies at 4.5 years
Darwin's 200th Birthday
In honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, the Phoenix Undergraduate Biology Club put on a parade that included people dressed up in animal costumes and a 15-foot papier-mache Iguana. The parade started by the lab school and ended at a reception in t...