SSA’s 2013 Edith Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement: Nathan Linsk
Nathan Linsk, AM '74, PhD '82 is a recently retired professor (UIC/Jane Addams College of Social Work) and a founder of the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) and the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center. He is a pioneer in ...
A Night for Stars: SSA Stars Celebration Gala
The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Stars Gala was held during Reunion Weekend on Saturday, October 19, 2013. The Gala raises money each year for student scholarships. This video features SSA students thanking our donors.
A Night for Stars: SSA Stars Celebration Gala
The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Stars Gala was held during Reunion Weekend on Saturday, October 19, 2013. The Gala raises money each year for student scholarships. This video features SSA students thanking our donors.
A “Desire for History”: Building Queer Archives at UChicago
How does queer studies engage with the archive? Since 2007, students and faculty affiliated with the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality have worked to build archival collections documenting the experiences of women and L...
The Metropolitan Revolution
Amid the gridlock in Washington and belt-tightening at both the federal and state levels, could America's cities be the most important, innovative unit of government today? Brookings Institution scholars Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley say “yes” in...
Fifth Annual Office of Business Diversity Professional Services Symposium
In 2009, the University of Chicago held the first symposium dedicated to creating opportunities for minority- and women-owned professional service firms. The Professional Services Symposium is a first-of-its-kind program within higher education and is ...
The Engaged Mind - Just War Against Terror (plenary session)
Over the last four years, the Divinity School has hosted a series of cross-disciplinary conferences reflecting on themes inspired by the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013). "The Engaged Mind" conference series now presents the fourth and final ...
The Engaged Mind - Just War Against Terror
Over the last four years, the Divinity School has hosted a series of cross-disciplinary conferences reflecting on themes inspired by the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013). "The Engaged Mind" conference series now presents the fourth and final ...
Chicago's Big Short: Selling the Myth of Integration in the American City
The Pastora San Juan Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life is presented once a year by the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and the Cafferty Lecture Committee: William Brodsky, Frank M. Clark, Neil B. Gute...
Changing the Political Landscape with Houston Mayor Annise Parker
On Thursday, October 17, 2013, Annise Parker, the first openly gay person elected mayor of a major US city, spoke about her experiences in a RISE: Reflect. Intervene. Speak. Engage. keynote lecture at the University of Chicago. Parker is now in her sec...