The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced that nine University faculty members have been elected 2009 fellows. Also elected to the academy were James Crown, Former Chairman of the Board ...

Twelve distinguished scholars have received faculty appointments at the University this year and have joined their new Chicago colleagues in the Biological Sciences Division, the Division of the ...

Stephen Harvey pauses for a photo during one of his trips to Abydos. A watercolor rendition of a fragment of limestone, which shows a band of sky with stars, was found at the top of a wall from the ...

The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the ...

Darryl Heller, a Ph.D. student in History (left to right, top photo), Christina Petersen, a Ph. D. student in Cinema & Media Studies, and Monica Mercado, a Ph.D. student in History, review files at ...

Since 1989, Robert Kottwitz has been helping Chicago graduate students in Mathematics to find strength in numbers. Now he has been rewarded with a 2001 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate ...

Lavie Raven (center), a social studies teacher at Kenwood Academy and minister of education for the University of Hip-Hip, poses with two of his students, Carmia Arrington and Darryl Wade. High school ...

The big bang could be a normal event in the natural evolution of the universe that will happen repeatedly over incredibly vast time scales as the universe expands, empties out and cools off, according ...

In his new book, Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes (University Press), Albert Alschuler, the Wilson-Dickinson Professor in the Law School, offers a fresh and ...

Instructors in the University’s Little Red Schoolhouse writing program gather for a photo in their new teaching space in Stuart Hall. They are (left to right) Mark Luce, Cecelia Watson, Annal Frenz, ...

Above is a sample of three sling bullets made of clay and found in the collapsed, burnt buildings at the Hamoukar site in Syria. New details about the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities, ...