Cheng Chin will make a vacuum chamber in his laboratory the coldest place in Chicago in order to simulate the impossibly hot conditions that followed the big bang during the earliest moments of the universe.
The Graham School of The University of Chicago announces the introduction of a Master of Science in Threat and Response Management, an interdisciplinary course of study in emergency preparedness. The program provides students with a comprehensive education in understanding and managing all aspects of a major public health hazard.
The University of Chicago will allocate nearly $50 million in additional funding over the next six years to ensure that doctoral students in the social sciences and humanities are among the most generously supported in all of higher education. Incoming graduate students will receive free tuition, health insurance and a $19,000 stipend per year.
A greenhouse gas that has become the bane of modern society may have saved Earth from completely freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary rocks.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday, Feb. 2, will release in Paris a summary of its Fourth Assessment Report (the full text of the report will follow later in the year). Two University of Chicago climatologists are available to journalists to comment on the report.
The University of Chicago has experts with extensive knowledge on various topics expected to be covered in the President's State of the Union Address. Here is a list of the experts with contact information.
The University of Chicago has experts with extensive knowledge on energy, a topic expected to be covered in the President's State of the Union Address. Here is a list of the experts with contact information.
The popular stereotype of Asian-American teenagers that portrays them as high achievers who are also prone to bad behavior, is false, according to new research showing that a student's grade point average is a strong predictor of behavior for Asian-American youth as well as for other youth.
Students and teachers from 20 Wisconsin and Illinois schools will explore the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope and a variety of other research instruments as participants in the newly created Yerkes Observatory Astrophysics Academy for Young Scientists.
Overall, the American public favors more government spending, particularly for education and health, areas that have consistently lead the public's spending priorities in recent years, according to a new survey from the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago's Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes will perform the world's most advanced simulations of exploding white dwarf stars with an allocation of 2.5 million hours of processing time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high-performance computers.
Donald Levy, the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry at the University of Chicago, has been appointed the University's Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, President Robert Zimmer announced today. The appointment was effective Jan. 1.
Massive quantities of data will soon begin flowing from the largest scientific instrument ever built into an international network of computer centers, including one operated jointly by the University of Chicago and Indiana University.
The University of Chicago's Center for Financial Mathematics, the only research center in the nation, if not the world, devoted to financial mathematics has received a $7 million gift from Steve G. Stevanovich, founder of an asset management firm with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
The American Physical Society will designate the University of Chicago as an historic physics site to commemorate the work of Nobel laureate Robert Millikan in a ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30.
The University of Chicago's technology transfer operation will enter its sixth year of steady growth by changing its name to UChicagoTech, part of an outreach effort aimed at expanding its network both within the university and off campus.
Researchers have previously noted that many of the advantages children receive from preschool experiences begin to wane as they continue through school. A study by James Heckman, a Nobel-Prize winning economist shows for the first time that systematic interventions throughout childhood and adolescence could sustain the early gains and build on them.
Infant abuse may be perpetuated between generations by changes in the brain induced by early experience, research shows. A research team found that when baby rhesus monkeys endured high rates of maternal rejection and mild abuse in their first month of life, their brains often produced less serotonin, a chemical that transmits impulses in the brain.
As voters prepare for the polls Nov. 7, computer scientists at the University of Chicago and Yahoo! Research are calling attention to the uncanny track record that an Irish securities trading market has for accurately predicting the outcome of U.S. elections.
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, a partnership between the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association Inc., has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to operate Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 1, 2007.
Female rats that are apprehensive of new experiences as infants maintain that temperament and die earlier from mammary and pituitary tumors than do their more adventuresome sisters. The apprehensive rats were more likely to have irregular reproductive cycles than adventuresome rats, research at the University of Chicago found.
University of Chicago chemists have demonstrated for the first time how to use a simple laboratory model consisting of only a few chemical reactions to predict when and where blood clotting will occur.
University of Chicago chemist David Mazziotti has developed a new method for determining the behavior of electrons in atoms and molecules, a key ingredient in predicting chemical properties and reactions. He presented the details of his method in Physical Review Letters.
North Korea's nuclear test represents the final failure of American attempts going back to 1991 to keep North Korea within the non-proliferation regime. Neither President Clinton nor President Bush understand their enemy in Pyongyang. We stumbled into a political, cultural and historical thicket in 1945 when we divided Korea, North Korea was our enemy then and remains so today.
University of Chicago physicists have discovered a new class of behavior in air bubbles rising from an underwater nozzle. In this surprising behavior, the bubbles tear apart in sharp jerks instead of pinching off at a point, the research team will report in the Oct. 6 Physical Review Letters.
A team of scientists has completed a study that explains why the tropics are so much richer in biodiversity than higher latitudes. And they say that their work highlights the importance of preserving those species against extinction.
A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away. (AUDIO EMBEDDED)
University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer has chosen Thomas Rosenbaum as the next provost of the University. Rosenbaum has served as the University's Vice President for Research and for Argonne National Laboratory since July 2002.
Plagiarism, once considered confined to college campuses"”appears to have graduated to the professional spheres. And with it, the fall of right-wing pundits, acclaimed historians, and writers of best-selling "memoirs" alike. Their experience shows many authors could all use a refresher course in the basics of citation. A new book could help.
Nearly 300 colleagues and admirers from around the world will convene at the University of Chicago to celebrate the 75th birthday of James Cronin, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in physics, during a series of events on Friday, Sept. 8, and Saturday, Sept. 9, at Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.
The architecture that pervades biological networks gives them an evolutionary edge by allowing them to evolve to perform new functions more rapidly than an alternative network design, according to computer simulations conducted at the University of Chicago.
Scientists have determined that people spontaneously use a system of communicating when they speak that either reinforces their message or provides additional information that is not conveyed by words alone. Dubbed "analog acoustic expression," this uninvestigated form of communication is described as a sort of verbal gesturing.
Americans ranked highest in a survey of national pride in their pride for their democratic system, their political influence in the world, their economy, their achievements in science and technology and their military. Canadians rank higher regarding pride in their social security system and their treatment of different groups within their society.
A climate scientist at the University of Chicago and 30 of her colleagues from across North America and Europe are urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear as a threatened species because global warming is melting its sea-ice habitat.
Scientists at the University of Chicago have used supercomputer simulations to bolster the case for a popular scenario of the big bang theory that neatly explain the arrangement of galaxies throughout the universe.
A wispy collection of atoms and molecules fuels the vast cosmic maelstroms produced by colliding galaxies and merging supermassive black holes, according to some of the most advanced supercomputer simulations ever conducted on this topic.
The University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory will present a seminar on its Space Exploration Experience (SEE) Project for the Blind and Visually Impaired at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at the Wisconsin Lions Club State Convention, which will meet in Middleton.
Women are able to subconsciously pick up cues of interest in children in men's faces and use those cues to determine if they are attracted to them for long-term relationships. Women's judgments of men's facial masculinity accurately reflect testosterone levels, making those with high testosterone levels attractive for short-term relationships.
Ellen and Melvin Gordon have made a donation of $25 million toward the University of Chicago's largest science building, constructed to exacting standards so that scientists could pursue innovative research that crosses the traditional boundaries between physics, chemistry and biology.
Older couples who live in Western countries and enjoy more equality are most likely to report sexual satisfaction, according to a new study on sexual well-being, aging and health conducted in 29 countries by a University of Chicago team, the first study of its kind to examine sexual behavior and satisfaction among middle-aged and older people worldwide.
The food that people eat is just as important as what kind of cars they drive when it comes to creating the greenhouse-gas emissions that many scientists have linked to global warming, according to a report accepted for publication in the journal Earth Interactions.
The best way to avoid becoming a fossil is to be small and live in deep, tropical waters. So say four paleontologists who have published a detailed, global study of clam preservation. Their work is intended to enhance evolutionary studies by determining what's missing from the fossil record and why.
The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory are among the primary sponsors of the BIO 2006 Annual International Convention, which will bring more than 20,000 executives, investors, journalists, policy makers and scientists from more than 60 countries to Chicago April 9 to 12 to discuss the latest developments in biotechnology.
Loneliness is a major risk factor in increasing blood pressure in older Americans, and could increase the risk of death from stroke and heart disease. Lonely people have blood pressure readings that are as much as 30 points higher than in non-lonely people, even when other factors are taken into account.
Educators from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory will share some of their best practices for bringing hands-on astronomy into Illinois schools"”even in broad daylight"”at a March 29 showcase in Springfield.
An international team of physicists has converted three normal atoms into a special new state of matter whose existence was proposed by Russian scientist Vitaly Efimov in 1970.
The Presidential Search Committee of the University of Chicago is recommending to the Board of Trustees that Robert J. Zimmer, who is currently provost of Brown University, be elected the 13th President of the University of Chicago.
Ian Foster has been appointed director of the Computation Institute, a joint project between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory that addresses the most challenging computational and communications problems arising from a broad range of intellectual pursuits.
When it comes to being proud about their country, people in the United States and Venezuela lead the world. Among 33 nations surveyed, the United States was the nation with the leading score in pride over specific accomplishments and Venezuela was the leading nation in the general national pride portion of the survey.
Scientists at the University of Chicago are among the first ever to analyze cometary dust delivered to Earth via spacecraft. Never before NASA's Stardust mission have scientists had access to verified samples of a comet.
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