Welcome to the DECEMBER edition
of UCHICAGO.EDU, a monthly e-bulletin
bringing you online news about the University of Chicago
and its larger
community of alumni and friends.
Your December/03 University of
Chicago Magazine is in the mail. It's already
online at: http://magazine.uchicago.edu.
Here's a sampling from the DECEMBER
issue:
* ZONE OF CONTENTION
A better understanding of the origins of the Korean
War, argues historian
Bruce Cumings, may be the best way to prevent another,
more dangerous
conflict:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0312/features/index.shtml
* LIFE OF THE BODY
The University gets physical with the recently launched
Gerald Ratner
Athletics Center:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0312/features/life.shtml
* IMMERSION THEORY
How one Chicago professor teaches undergraduate biology--and
why it's a
harbinger for science education to come:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0312/features/theory.shtml
* AND DON'T FORGET THE MAGAZINE'S
ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
The grand prize is $500, and entries must be postmarked
by December 31,
2003. The judge is Magazine contributing editor and
Pulitzer Prize-winning
photographer Dan Dry. For contest guidelines:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/about/photo-contest.shtml
NEWS FROM CHICAGO
* COLLEGE GRAD NAMED MARSHALL SCHOLAR
Margaret Hagan, AB'03, is one of 40 students nationwide--and
the 17th U of C
graduate--to receive a British Marshall scholarship.
Hagan, currently
pursuing a master's degree at the Central European
University in Budapest,
will use her scholarship to do graduate work in Northern
Ireland, studying
political science and peace and conflict resolution:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/031117.marshall.shtml
* COETZEE'S NOBEL LECTURE IN CHARACTER
Chicago professor J. M. Coetzee's Nobel Prize in Literature
lecture,
delivered December 7 in Stockholm, discussed "the
business of writing"--in
the voice of Daniel Defoe's castaway Robinson Crusoe:
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/2003/coetzee-lecture.html
RESEARCH AT CHICAGO
* BALLOON OF COSMIC PROPORTIONS
TO CARRY COSMIC-RAY DETECTOR
Chicago physicists will launch a huge, unmanned balloon--carrying
a
three-ton payload--almost 130,000 feet over Antarctica
this month in a hunt
for high-energy cosmic rays:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031211/cosmic-rays.shtml
* THE MONKEY'S MA: NATURE TRUMPS
NURTURE
Young monkeys reared by a foster mom are more likely
to exhibit the
aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers.
The study by Chicago
researcher Dario Maestripieri, published in the current
issue of
Developmental Psychobiology, provides the first evidence
of the
inheritability of social-behavior traits among non-human
primates and may
help researchers understand the biological origins
of characteristics that
shape human socialization:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/031204.primates.shtml
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
* WELCOME HOME
Whenever you're on campus, stop by the new Alumni
House at the corner of
56th Street and Woodlawn Avenue. You can relax with
a cup of coffee, read
the newspaper, check your e-mail, send a fax, browse
through old yearbooks
or new publications by alumni and faculty, and visit
with students or
alumni. For our new address and a look at current
staff:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/aa-staff.html
* TRAVEL IN MIND FOR THE YEAR AHEAD
It's time to check your vacation calendar against
the 2004 list of alumni
offerings and choose the faculty-led study trip that
suits your interests.
The Amazon, Sorrento, Poland and the Elbe River, Oxford,
the Dordogne,
Greenland, the Baltic, Costa Rica, the Mediterranean,
Big Bend National
Park, Orvieto, and Moorish Spain--all are beckoning
you:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/study.html
* KNOW SOME ALUMNI WHO CAN MAKE
A DIFFERENCE?
The Alumni Board of Governors, your voice on campus,
will be electing new
members in April. The 25-member group sets policy
for the Alumni Association
and advises the University on matters of interest
and concern to alumni. To
read about the board's responsibilities and submit
your nominations, go to:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/bog.html
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NEWS
FROM CHICAGO
* NINE SHINE:
CHICAGO PROFESSORS HONORED BY AAAS
In February nine Chicago faculty members will be honored
as 2003 fellows of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science: Ian Foster, Vinay Kumar, Joseph
Lykken, Stephan Meyer, Viresh Rawal, Rick Stevens,
Russell Tuttle, Bruce Winstein, and Hisashi Yamamoto:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/aaas.shtml
* RETHINKING
THE SHORELAND'S ROLE IN COLLEGE HOUSING
The University community is discussing a College housing
plan that could ultimately involve building a new
residence hall and selling Shoreland Hall, the 1926
hotel renovated to serve as an undergraduate residence
in 1977.
For the U of C Chronicle report
on the planning: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/shoreland.shtml
For background information from
the Dean of Students Office: http://dos.uchicago.edu/future.html
For information on the student
group Save the Shoreland: http://savetheshoreland.com
RESEARCH
AT CHICAGO
* ANGKOR,
AGRICULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
In December Chicago researchers, led by anthropologist
Alan Kolata, will begin a study of the interactions
between people and the environment in northwestern
Cambodia. Current developments in the Cambodian region,
home to the Angkor temple complex, add urgency to
the study: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/anthro.shtml
* WOMEN RULE
MEN'S DROOL: QUANTIFYING MIND/BODY CONNECTIONS
An experiment sponsored by Chicago's Institute for
Mind and Biology found that, after short conversations
with attractive female research assistants, the level
of testosterone in young men's saliva spiked upward.
The study, published in Evolution and Human Behavior,
is part of an effort to understand male sexuality:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/031107.testosterone.html
SEE
THE U OF C
* GSB CAMPUS
TAKING SHAPE
Click here for a Webcam view of the GSB's new campus,
under construction at 58th and Woodlawn: http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/campaign/webcam.htm
FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
* VOLUNTEER
TO BE A CAREER CONTACT
Would you like to share your professional and career
contacts with students and alumni? You can--as a career
contact in the online alumni careers network, a database
of alumni who've volunteered to talk about their professional
activities or fields. Conversations take place via
phone, e-mail, letters, or in-person meetings. To
join the network's 6,400-plus alumni, go to: https://alumniservices.uchicago.edu/careers/network_main.asp
* HELP TO
RECRUIT UNDERGRADUATES
The University of Chicago Alumni Schools Committee
(ASC) is a group of more than 2,000 alumni in the
United States and around the world who help to recruit
students for the College. An ASC member's primary
task is to interview applicants--providing the kind
of interchange with prospects that simulates the best
conversations Chicago students might have with their
professors or peers. For more information, or to volunteer
with the Alumni Schools Committee, please visit its
Web site: http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/asc
* NOMINATE
ALUMNI ATHLETES TO THE HALL OF FAME
On October 10 Chicago inducted the first 25 members
of the Athletics Hall of Fame. To see photos from
the event and to make a nomination for next year,
go to: http://athletics.uchicago.edu/halloffame.htm
THE
MAGAZINE INVITES YOU TO...
* ENTER THE
ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
Magazine contributing editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning
photographer Dan Dry is the judge of the University
of Chicago Magazine Alumni Photography Contest. The
grand prize is $500, and the deadline for entries
is December 31, 2003. For contest guidelines: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/about/photo-contest.shtml
* FEEL THE
PULL, MAKE A GIFT
Since 1907 the University of Chicago Magazine has
attracted readers with campus news and reports on
U of C alumni from pole to pole. Although alumni "subscriptions"
are free, gifts from readers are always welcome--and
this year we have a special thank-you--a set of magnetic
icons we hope will attract you: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/magnet
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