Fault in Contract Law (Part 2)
In September, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law Omri Ben-Shahar and Fischel-Neil Visiting Professor of Law Ariel Porat organized a conference intended to reevaluate the role of fault in contract law. Speakers included Chicago faculty Saul...
Prof. Gary Becker Humanities Keynote
Professor Gary Becker, University Professor in Economics, Sociology, and the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, discusses the financial crisis as a part of a keynote address at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Mansueto Library Groundbreaking
Nearly 200 people filled a tent at the Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 groundbreaking, where the signature photo to symbolize the start of construction of a new building was taken. President Zimmer said the University’s decision to build a new library in ...
Gobero: An Interdisciplinary Discovery
Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, discusses an unexpected discovery he made while searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in 2000. Sereno and his team uncovered a massive graveyard containing over 200 burials. By comb...
Gobero: Preparing the Triple Burial
One of the most exquisite discoveries from Gobero is a triple burial which preserved an adult woman interred with two young children. The bodies were buried with their arms around each other and were holding hands. Paul Sereno's vision was to create s...
The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-3
The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-43--A documentary that recaptures the early history of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) on the south side of Chicago. CORE co-founders James Robinson and George Houser revisit some of the sites of their ...
Stone Age Graveyard in Sands of Sahara
Paleontologist Paul Sereno comments on his unexpected discovery of an archaeological site in the sands of the Sahara
The Secret Life of Shells: Looking into the ecological past
Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems.By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can per...
Nudge: An Overview
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be use...