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Zoologist
tracks damselflies, fairy-wrens, and Hyde Park's tropical life:Known
for his own colorful Hawaiian shirts, Stephen Pruett-Jones,
associate professor in ecology & evolution, the Committee on
Evolutionary Biology, and the College, has embarked on the first
major biological and ecological study of America's monk parakeet
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China's
Scholar :
Dali
Yang, assistant professor in political science and the College,
has made it his mission to explain his native country as it
becomes more active in global economics and politics.
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Of
Meth and Men:
Amid
growing public-health concerns, University of Chicago researchers
are working to provide more concrete information on how pregnant
mothers' use of the drug methamphetamine may affect their newborns.
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Gang
Economics :
It's
not every economist who decides to tackle the topic of urban
youth's involvement with gangs and drugs. Yet, says Steven Levitt,
assistant professor in economics and the College, "crime is
an extremely important issue and one that is really not studied
enough, especially in academe-an economist might have something
interesting to say." |
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