The University of Chicago will offer an engineering PhD for the first time, emphasizing the development of solutions to technological problems of society based on molecular-level science.

“Traditional engineering schools divide engineering into disciplines; IME combines disciplines into a new approach to engineering research and education,” said Matthew Tirrell, the Pritzker Director of the...

A record 55 percent of admitted students chose to join the College’s incoming Class of 2017, a rise of 9 percentage points from last year, with a large increase from Chicago students who will benefit from the new UChicago Promise program.

The incoming class includes an increase in African American and Latino students, and broad geographical diversity across all regions of the United States and the world.

“This year’...

As the University of Chicago Institute of Politics builds upon an eventful first year of discussions and programming, Director David Axelrod has been appointed a distinguished senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy.

In addition to his role leading the new non-partisan Institute of Politics, Axelrod will help Chicago Harris students explore policymaking and public service,...

The University of Chicago invites members of the community to a public meeting on Wednesday, May 15, to discuss proposed project updates for 5757 S. University Ave. (formerly the Chicago Theological Seminary).

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m., in Room C25 of the Chicago Booth School of Business, 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave. University officials will be on hand to talk about construction at the site, the vacation of 58th Street and the start of the Research Pavilion Project. They also will...

This year, two faculty members at the University of Chicago have received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships: Philip V. Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music, the Humanities, and the College, and Jennifer Cole, Professor of Comparative Human Development.

An ethnomusicologist, Bohlman studies a wide range of topics related to music and modernity, with a focus on Jewish music and the politics of religion and race in the music of the...

There may have been no fizzy lifting drinks or scrumdiddlyumptious bars at the University of Chicago's “Science on the Screen” showing of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at the Kersten Physics Teaching Center on Sunday, April 21, but there were plenty of sweets and surprises to go around nevertheless – no golden ticket required.

Dozens of children and their parents from all over Chicagoland turned out for the free event, which was sponsored by the...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute on May 9 announced the selection of Chuan He, professor in chemistry and the current director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago, as a new HHMI investigator.

“The Hughes support will put us in a good position to uncover some unpredictable...

The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy has created the Center on Policy Entrepreneurship, a unique initiative focusing on the politics of the policymaking process.

“The Center on Policy Entrepreneurship will show students how policy ideas must take into account political realities. It will help future policymakers gain a...

The Chicago Transit Authority will continue to operate four bus lines that serve the University of Chicago campus and surrounding neighborhoods, after the University and the CTA reached a five-year agreement. The CTA board approved the contract at its May 8 meeting.    

The new agreement ensures continued bus service on the existing 170, 171, 172 and 192 routes. Together, these routes provided nearly 1.2 million rides to members of the UChicago community and...

The awarding of the Gordon J. Laing Prize to Andreas Glaeser, Professor in Sociology, continued a now 50-year tradition by the University of Chicago Press to recognize the work of UChicago faculty authors whose books it publishes.

At an event held April 24 in the Quadrangle Club and attended by other winners of the recognition, Glaeser was applauded for his book, Political Epistemics: The Secret Police,...

Scientists heard their first pops last week in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles.

They will need to analyze them further in order to discern whether dark matter caused any of the COUPP-60 experiment’s first bubbles at the SNOLAB underground science laboratory in Ontario, Canada. Dark matter accounts for nearly 90 percent of all matter in the universe, yet...

Award-winning author Aleksandar Hemon will deliver the keynote address at the grand opening celebration for the Seminary Co-operative Bookstore on Saturday, May 11.

Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles, and The Book of My Lives, will speak at 3 p.m. Other events include bookmaking demonstrations, a session on picture books with children's authors from...

Award-winning author Aleksandar Hemon will deliver the keynote address at the grand opening celebration for the Seminary Co-operative Bookstore on Saturday, May 11.

Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles, and The Book of My Lives, will speak at 3 p.m. Other events include bookmaking demonstrations, a session on picture books with children's authors from...

Constance Gartner first heard about NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) from her students at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wis.

Her students participate in programs developed at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis. that make astronomy accessible to students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hearing impaired.

During visits to the observatory, Gartner learned that Yerkes scientists...

Recipients of the University of Chicago’s 2013 Arts | Science Graduate Collaboration Grants will present the fruits of their projects from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, in the penthouse of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. The event is free and open to the public and a reception will follow.

The Arts | Science...

The Ad Hoc Committee on Dissent and Protest, convened to examine policies and practices related to protest actions at the University of Chicago, will hold an open meeting at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 13 in the Swift Hall Common Room.

Provost Thomas F. Rosenbaum convened the committee last quarter, after a protest at the Center for Care and Discovery ended in arrests. The committee, led by David A. Strauss, the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, is charged with...

Four scholars and one distinguished trustee from the University of Chicago have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Michael Fishbane, the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School and the College; Thomas Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the Law School...

The University of Chicago has won two prestigious Webby Awards for the best website in the School or University category.

The international award recognizes the mobile-friendly redesign of www.uchicago.edu that the University introduced in September 2012. One of the University’s most powerful communication...

Ecumenical leader and educator Michael Kinnamon has been named the Divinity School’s alumnus of the year for 2013.

He will deliver his address, “A Report from the Front Lines of a Renewal Movement Under Siege,” on Thursday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the Swift Lecture Hall.

Kinnamon, AM’76, PhD’80, is an ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ and the International Council of Community Churches. In August 2012, he was named the Spehar-Halligan...

Scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis will deliver a lecture titled “Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the 21st Century” on Friday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.

Davis is a distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her scholarly interests include feminism, racial inequality and social change.

Davis...