Your February/03 University of Chicago
Magazine is in the mail. It's already online at: http://magazine.uchicago.edu
Here's a sampling from the
FEBRUARY issue:
DEEP
INTO THE LANDSCAPE: ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE AMUQ
In Turkey's Amuq Valley researchers from the Oriental
Institute focus on the big-picture patterns of the ancient
world: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0302/features/index.html
MINORITY
REPORT
While the Supreme Court takes up affirmative action in
higher education, Chicago has its own racial hurdles to
clear: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0302/features/minority.html
RETURN OF THE
CHICAGO SEVEN
In the second installment of a four-year project, the
Magazine revisits seven very different College students:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0302/features/seven.html
NEWS
FROM CHICAGO
PHYSICAL SCIENCES'
OXTOBY TO HEAD POMONA COLLEGE
David W. Oxtoby, dean of Chicago's Division of Physical
Sciences since 1995, has been named the ninth president
of Pomona College, effective July 1: http://pomona.edu/events/news/NewsItems/021003president.shtml
CUM LAUDE: HONORS
FOR 17 PROFESSORS
In recent months five Chicago faculty members received
distinguished-service professorships while 12 of their
colleagues received named professorships. For profiles
of the group--which includes an expert on modern South
Asian history and historiography and a specialist in spatial
statistics--go to: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030206/appointments.shtml
RESEARCH
AT CHICAGO
BREATHING LESSONS:
INSECT MECHANISM HAS HUMAN PARALLEL
Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists at Argonne
National Laboratory, the University, and the Field Museum
have discovered a surprising new insect breathing mechanism
that is analogous to lung ventilation in humans. Beetles,
crickets, ants, butterflies, cockroaches, dragonflies,
and other insects all display the mechanism to varying
degrees. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030206/insects.shtml
PHYSICIANS FALL
DOWN ON CHRONIC-DISEASE CARE
A nationwide survey of physician organizations conducted
by researchers at Chicago and at the University of California,
Berkeley, shows that millions of patients with chronic
diseases do no receive quality care because recommended
care-management processes are not always practiced. For
more on the survey's results, published in the January
22 Journal of the American Medical Association, go to:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030206/care-manage.shtml
NEWS
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
ROAD SCHOLARS:
HARPER LECTURES HIGHLIGHT CHICAGO RESEARCH
Faculty are taking to the road again, bringing the Harper
Lecture series to alumni in cities across the country.
From Henry James to global climate change, from nuclear
proliferation and rogue states to museums of the 21st
century, Chicago professors will lead discussions of their
current research. For a list of lectures--March through
May--in 22 U.S. cities, check: http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/travel_education/harper/
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