Official poverty rate data to be released on Thursday, September 24 are likely to tell an incomplete story about economic disadvantage in the United States, according to experts associated with theNorthwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
It is one of the most sophisticated and expensive cameras in the world, built for the most ambitious mapping of the universe: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Helping construct the survey's critical piece of equipment is 26-year-old Connie Rockosi, a graduate student at the University of Chicago--and one of the most knowledgeable scientists in the world in electronic imaging.
Regardless of their backgrounds, children as young as 3 have the ability to recognize numbers, and add and subtract, according to research by Susan Levine and Janellen Huttenlocher, both Professors of Psychology at the University of Chicago.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 program, designed to expand housing options for low-income recipients, may actually encourage discrimination, according to a student researcher at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
An international group of astronomers will attempt to answer whether the physics of exploding stars can be used to foretell the ultimate fate of the universe during a workshop on Type Ia Supernova Theory taking place Oct. 29 to 31 at the University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago has received a $5 million endowment gift from Irving B. Harris to establish the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.
As new governors and elected officials prepare to take office at the beginning of the year, people may notice that many have new outlooks on politics that vary from the conventional attitudes politicians have had in the past. They are part of a new political culture, detailed in a new book, The New Political Culture, by Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Increased punishment of juveniles reduces the amount of crime they commit in a way similiar to the impact punishment has for adults, according to a new paper by a University of Chicago economist.
NASA's newest orbiting telescope, which will study X-rays produced by some of the world's most violent events in the universe, will carry the name of pioneering University of Chicago astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, NASA announced today.
A University of Chicago instrument designed to study both cometary and man-made space debris will be launched Jan. 15 on the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite from Vandenberg Air force Base in southern California.
A University of Chicago instrument will be riding shotgun on the first spacecraft designed to return a sample of a comet to Earth. NASA plans to launch the Stardust spacecraft to Comet Wild-2 as early as Feb. 6.
The first object that humans will land on the surface of an asteroid will contain a miniature version of the University of Chicago instrument that helped make aerospace history during the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997.
Americans' preoccupation with present day concerns will always overshadow their need to save adequately or plan for retirement, according to an economist and visiting scholar at the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research
A research team led by a University of Chicago paleontologist has developed a mathematical model that could resolve the conflict between the molecular clock and fossil record methods of charting mammalian evolution.
The current decline in welfare caseloads has been very rapid, especially since the 1996 welfare reform act, yet other problems such as continued poverty and economic insecurity are still common among former welfare recipients and are likely to increase, according to experts associated with the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
A University of Chicago space scientist who also worked on the Manhattan Project urges the further development of safe nuclear reactors that could both meet a growing energy demand while reducing the risk of nuclear fuel proliferation for military applications.
Scientists will need two detectors the size of Rhode Island to track down the mysterious source of rare but extremely powerful high-energy cosmic rays that periodically bombard Earth. These giant detectors will be part of the new Pierre Auger Observatory.
Coral reefs will become a casualty of the industrialized world's growing carbon dioxide emissions by the middle of the next century, according to a study published in the April 2 issue of the journal Science.
The system-wide effort to improve student performance in Chicago public high schools is yielding promising results, yet skepticism among teachers may impede long-term success, according to a new study published by researchers affiliated with the Department of Education and the University of Chicago.
A research team led by physicists at the University of Chicago report that they have developed the most sensitive magnetic sensors ever for extremely large fields.
The age-old struggle between father and son. Religious allegory. References to Marx and Hegel. Mimes. What else could one ask for in a feature film? Haunting Pierrot's Ghost, a collaborative project by University Theatre and filmmaking club Fire Escape Productions, offers all this and more.
Unique artifacts unearthed this season in Syria will force historians and archaeologists to rewrite the history books, because the traditional view of how civilization developed is looking increasingly wrong.
A significant number of organisms that survived the five greatest mass extinctions in Earth's history subsequently failed to achieve evolutionary success.
Although many people would like to think that their babies are bright enough to count before their first birthday, and some child psychologists have suggested they can, that possibility is disputed by the results of a 10-year evaluation by leading scholars at the University of Chicago.
A multi-institutional team of scientists led by the University of Chicago will receive $16.6 million from the National Science Foundation over the next five years to build a telescope at the South Pole aimed at piercing one of the darkest secrets of the universe.
Using a radio telescope at the National Science Foundation's South Pole station, University of Chicago astrophysicists have measured a minute polarization of the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the big bang. The discovery verifies the framework that supports modern cosmological theory.
University of Chicago chemists have successfully synthesized an electronic component the size of a single molecule that could prove crucial in the continuing push to miniaturize electronic devices. The component, called a molecular diode, restricts current flow to one direction between electronic devices.
Sixty scientists from across the country will convene at the University of Chicago Friday, Nov. 15 and Saturday, Nov. 16, to discuss the emerging field of nanohybrid structures. Nanoscientists build these structures to develop smaller, faster computers, accelerate drug discovery and development, and spur a variety of other potential applications.
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Chicago has received a 6-year, $14.4 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation to study the next generation of ideas that will lead to new materials and new applications.
A $22 million contract from the U.S. Department of Energy will help the University of Chicago's Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes model the turbulent mix and flow of gases that trigger exploding stars over the next five years.
Special government scholarship programs do little to boost college attendance among disadvantaged students because family factors and college preparation have greater influence on whether students go to college.
University of Chicago mathematics Professor Paul Sally Jr. says that many college-level mathematics courses for non-majors are "the equivalent of people taking English and reading classic comics."
The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago, may soon help solve seemingly unrelated problems in particle physics, cosmology and gravitational physics, according to a panel of experts.
Some mysterious source from beyond the galaxy periodically zaps Earth with high-energy cosmic rays from all directions. So far, the two leading experiments devoted to the detection and understanding of these rays have yielded contradictory results.
University of Chicago scientists using forest fire dynamics to better understand brain activity have identified a new pattern of simulated neural behavior that lends fresh insight into the brain's inner workings.
University of Chicago physicists can use multiple beams of light to selectively sort microscopic particles, biological cells and large molecules.
University of Chicago meteorite experts Lawrence Grossman and Steven Simon usually commute from Chicago's south suburbs to their laboratory on the Hyde Park campus to study rocks that have fallen from space. But at midnight the evening of March 26-27, a shower of meteorites came to them.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today two special grants totaling $4,500,000 in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray, who has just retired as chairman of its Board of Trustees after having served as a Board member for 23 years.
University of Chicago physicists have successfully measured the angular momentum carried by tiny rings of light called optical vortices, an important step in harnessing their energy to power microelectromechanical devices.
Interest in mathematics has been rising at the University of Chicago. Most of the nation's top mathematics departments produce no more than 1 percent of their institution's graduates. This year, 80 students are majoring or double-majoring in math at Chicago. They will comprise 8 percent of the graduating class.
The chief academic officers of three research universities will convene to discuss academic freedom, affirmative action, diversity and the changing public role of the university from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Place Dr. in Chicago.
Digital Genres: Semiotic Technologies this Side of the Millennium, a two-day conference exploring how digital forms of communication are changing our lives. Scholars from Illinois to India will meet for papers and conversations in an environment where the internet and the academy cross-pollinate.
University of Chicago physicist Thanasis Economou is involved in all three missions that will be launched to Mars this month by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency.
The University of Chicago's Materials Research Center will present the winning video and audiotapes of the first Sounds and Sights of Science Contest at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 13.
The National Science Foundation has named the University of Chicago's Michael Turner to a two-year term as assistant director for mathematical and physical sciences, effective Oct. 1.
University of Chicago scientists have discovered a new sticky force that binds together proteins, the stuff of which life is made. The discovery may lead to more effective design of drugs that prevent harmful proteins from attaching to one another.
University of Chicago meteorologists are questioning the widely held explanation for what triggers high concentrations of ground-level ozone, which during the summer can present a serious health threat to asthma sufferers who live in urban areas.
Cosmologists from around the world will meet at the University of Chicago from Sept. 17 to 20 to thrash out the challenges associated with a series of galactic mapping projects designed to help them better understand dark energy, the mysterious force that works against gravity.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has selected a collaboration of 14 Midwestern institutions, including the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, as a Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.
During the Cold War, the United States stepped onto the world stage as an artistic force, producing what was recognized for the first time as a bona fide national culture. At the same time, a period of unprecedented persecution began for homosexuals in America.
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