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FRIDAY,
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COVER STORY:
- Chicago's Nobel economic tradition
ALSO
IN THE DECEMBER MAGAZINE:
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Grad student turned bookseller Michael Powell
- Enrico Fermi's 100th birthday
party
- After-images of September 11 OTHER
NEWS FROM CHICAGO >>
- Saller named provost,
Boyer 3-term dean. RESEARCH
AT CHICAGO >>
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Loneliness can be dangerous to your health. MAROON
SPORTS >>
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Seven football players make All-UAA first team. NEWS
FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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"The Politics of Terrorism." Watch the video.
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To give or get career advice, try the Alumni Careers Network.
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Your
December/01 University of Chicago Magazine is in the mail.
And it's
online. Here's
some of what's coming your way: COVER
STORY:
www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0112/features/index.htm
- Wealth of notions: Chicago's
nobel economic tradition
"Chicago economist" and "Nobel laureate" are not synonymous.
But a long line of Chicago faculty and alumni has dominated the marketplace of
economic thought. Here, in translation, are the theories that made Chicago famous.
ALSO
IN THE DECEMBER MAGAZINE:
www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0112/features/powell.html
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The life and tomes of Michael Powell
A former
grad student turned bookseller, Michael Powell is the owner of the world's largest
new- and used-book store.
www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0112/features/beyond.html
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Beyond the bomb
On the centenary
of Enrico Fermi's birth, colleagues and students of the atomic physicist gathered
to remember an outstanding teacher.
www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0112/features/remains.html
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The remains of the day
An ethicist,
an iconologist, and a philosopher who's also a psychiatrist consider after-images
of September 11.
www-studentactivities.uchicago.edu/?page=rccs&cat=facilities
- VIRTUAL CHICAGO: Wanna be an undergrad
again?
Click
on the Web cam and see students playing pool, watching TV, or just hanging out
at the Reynolds Club.
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NEWS FROM CHICAGO
www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/01/011129.saller.shtml
- SALLER named U of C provost.
Dean of the Division of Social Sciences Richard P. Saller will become Chicago's
second-ranking officer effective January 1, 2002. He succeeds Geoffrey R. Stone,
JD'71, who announced in October his decision to return to full-time research and
teaching in the Law School and the College. www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/01/011204.boyer.shtml
- BOYER reappointed College
dean.
John W. Boyer, AM'69,
PhD'75, has been appointed to a third five-year term as Dean of the College effective
July 1, 2002. Since taking the post in 1992 Boyer has strengthened the College
curriculum, admissions program, study abroad options, internships, and foreign
language instruction.
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RESEARCH
AT CHICAGO
chronicle.uchicago.edu/011115/loneliness.shtml
- LONELINESS can be dangerous
to your health.
A team of University researchers will receive $7.5 million from the National Institute
on Aging to support work to better understand what many doctors have suspected
for generations: People who feel lonely have more health problems and a shorter-life
expectancy than those who do not feel lonely.
MAROON
SPORTS
www.uchicago.edu/student/athletics/news.htm
- SEVEN FOOTBALL PLAYERS make All-UAA
first team Sixteen
University of Chicago football players have been named to the 2001 All-University
Athletic Association First and Second Teams. Among the 16 honorees were seven
First Team selections. The Maroons finished the season 6-3-0 overall (1-3-0 conference).
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NEWS
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
www.alumni.northwestern.edu/2001/ed&travel/classes_wo_classrooms/politcs.asx
- CHICAGO FACULTY discuss
"The Politics of Terrorism."
In late October the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Alumni Associations
sponsored a panel discussion on international politics after September 11. On
the panel were political scientist John Mearsheimer, who directs the U of C's
Program on International Security Policy, and Marvin Zonis of the Graduate School
of Business, an expert on terrorism, Middle Eastern politics, and global development.
alumnicareers.uchicago.edu
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try the
Alumni Careers Network, alumnicareers.uchicago.edu
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to be career contacts and provide informational interviews about their careers
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