Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices could depend on whether you are using a foreign language or your native tongue. A new study from psychologists at the University of Chicago and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona finds that people using a foreign language take a relatively utilitarian approach to moral dilemmas, making decisions based on assessments of what’s best for the common good.
Sen. Rand Paul, former Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Rick Santorum will visit the University of Chicago in the coming weeks as part of the Institute of Politics’ spring speaker series. Although the talks are sold out, each can be viewed via webcast at UChicago Live.
A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and it will include what may become the world’s largest memory experiment.
Eight students in the College will spend their summer as research interns at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, marking a new phase in the affiliation between the lab and the University of Chicago that will allow students to pursue significant scientific projects.
Where you live matters. That’s the common theme for geographers, sociologists, urban planners and other scholars gathering in April for the 2014 Urban Forums, titled Neighborhoods: The Measure and Meaning of an Urban Ideal, hosted by the University of Chicago Urban Network.
Four University of Chicago College students have received Harry S. Truman Scholarships—the most in school history, and tying a record that only two other institutions have attained since 2001.
The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering will build a major new facility for nanoscale fabrication within the William Eckhardt Research Center, supported by a $15 million gift from the Pritzker Foundation.
Paul J. Sally, Jr., of the University of Chicago has been awarded the first American Mathematical Society Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, the society announced today.
University of Chicago researchers and their colleagues at University College London have performed a proof-of-concept experiment that will aid the future development of programmable quantum computers.
The University of Chicago's International Human Rights Clinic has given students the opportunity to work on both local and international projects and cases, which represent some of today’s most pressing human rights concerns.
The famed Tianjin Peking Opera Company will perform April 12 at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt may be one of the world’s oldest weather reports—and could provide new evidence about the chronology of events in the ancient Middle East.
Women who are night owls share the same high propensity for risk-taking as men, according to a recent study by a University of Chicago professor.
High-quality early childhood development programs with health care and nutritional components can help prevent or delay the onset of adult chronic disease,
People who care about justice are swayed more by reason than emotion, according to new brain scan research from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.
Peter B. Littlewood, a Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago and the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, has been selected to serve as Argonne’s 13th director.
Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics are celebrating last week’s headline-making announcement that astronomers have acquired the first direct evidence of gravitational waves rippling through the infant universe during an explosive period of growth.
University of Chicago astrophysicist Angela Olinto helps to unravel the mystery of high-energy cosmic rays by leading the U.S. collaboration on an international project to deploy an ultraviolet telescope on the International Space Station.
After a distinguished 48-year career, Library Director and University Librarian Judith Nadler, who oversaw the planning and construction of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, will retire on June 30, 2014. A national search is underway to identify her successor.
Ted Cohen, professor in Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago, died Friday, Mar. 14 after a brief hospitalization. He was 74.
Children of all economic backgrounds could score bigger gains in math and reading if teachers introduced more advanced content in kindergarten,
Two UChicago undergraduates worked on the set of the feature film "Divergent," gaining invaluable experience in understanding the industry and craft of feature filmmaking firsthand.
Gregory L. Hillhouse, University of Chicago chemistry professor and mentor extraordinaire, died March 6 of cancer at his home in Chicago. He was 59.
A new exhibit at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum will show how the living cared for the dead, and how the ancients conceptualized the idea of the human soul in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel/Palestine.
A husband’s agreeable personality and good health appear crucial to preventing conflict among older couples who have been together a long time, according to a study from University of Chicago researchers.
Children who use their hands to gesture during a math lesson gain a deep understanding of the problems they are taught, according to new research from University of Chicago’s Department of Psychology.
A program designed to move families out of high-poverty neighborhoods resulted in reduced rates of depression and conduct disorder among girls, but increased rates of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and conduct disorder among boys, according to a study published in the March 5 issue of JAMA.
In a new book, University of Chicago Prof. Russell Tuttle, one of the nation’s leading paleoanthropologists, incorporates his research with a synthesis of a vast amount of research from other scientists who study primate evolution and behavior. The book explains how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species.
Announcement of New Hires at University of Chicago's Economics Department
The University of Chicago’s Arts|Science Initiative has awarded five Graduate Collaboration Grants for projects ranging in topic from ‘fiction addiction’ to compositions modeled on melting glaciers, to the physiological assessment of emotion during artistic performance.
A pioneering digital humanities project at the University of Chicago and Oxford University, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will use data analysis techniques to develop an open-source commonplace book. Identifying and analyzing these commonplaces will shed light on how knowledge spread and transformed in the early modern period.
Providing support for young scholars was the main goal of the Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, a four-day event attracting more than 200 female physics students. The University of Chicago was one of eight hosts of the conference nationwide.
The University of Chicago Crime Lab is one of seven nonprofit organizations around the world to receive a $1 million award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in support of nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated creativity and impact in their work.
Sarah Peluse, a fourth-year student in the College, has been recognized for her excellence in mathematics and her contributions to the field with the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize. The prize, awarded by the Association for Women in Mathematics, is based on her special research projects and on her performance as an undergraduate woman in advanced mathematics courses.
Tim Rudnicki is one of 40 students in the United States to win a full-cost Gates Cambridge scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Cambridge next fall.
Feeling extreme loneliness can increase an older person’s chances of premature death by 14 percent, according to research by John Cacioppo, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.
Research on urban neighborhoods must take into account differences among cities and rely on some techniques that have not been used extensively by sociologists studying neighborhood effects, according to Mario Small, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
African-Americans spend more time than any other group getting to work and in some cases spend about 15 minutes more a day than whites commuting, according to research by Virginia Parks, associate professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
Pour sand from a bucket and it flows like a liquid, but stand on it and it supports weight like a solid. This unusual behavior is a property of granular materials, and it is a reason University of Chicago physicist Heinrich Jaeger has chosen to focus on these types of materials in his research.
High quality early childhood for disadvantaged children can simultaneously reduce inequality and boost productivity in America, contends James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and one of the nation’s leading experts on early childhood education.
A region deep inside the brain controls how quickly people make decisions about love, according to new research at the University of Chicago.
UChicago alums share career advice with students at annual Taking the Next Step event.
Dozens of scientists from the University of Chicago and its affiliated laboratories will participate in the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb. 13 to 17 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Fairmont Chicago and Swissôtel in downtown Chicago.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago selects 15 new research projects.
A major new research initiative at the University of Chicago will examine and develop ways in which public education can help urban children become more highly skilled and more successful as adults.
High school students who were at risk for dropping out greatly improved their math test scores and school attendance with the help of intensive tutoring and mentoring, according to a new study by the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab. The program’s benefits were equivalent to closing nearly two-thirds of the average gap in math test scores between white and black students, or the equivalent of what the average American high school student learns in math over three years.
The robot gripper invented by researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell University is now available commercially. Empire Robotics, the company founded to commercialize the invention, is taking orders for the limited first release of its product called VERSABALL.
Even before babies have language skills or much information about social structures, they can infer whether other people are likely to be friends by observing their likes and dislikes, a new study on infant cognition has found.
Experiments at the University of Chicago show that one major function of a certain chemical modification on messenger RNA governs the longevity and decay of RNA, a process critical to the development of healthy cells.
Legendary University of Chicago Mathematics Professor Paul J. Sally, Jr., who was known for his love of mathematics at all educational levels, died Dec. 30 at age 80.
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