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NEWS
FROM CHICAGO
* DEANS IN
MOTION: ALLEN LEADS HUMANITIES, LAWLOR LEAVES SSA
Danielle S. Allen--a professor in classics and political
science who also holds appointments in the College
and the Committee on Social Thought--begins a five-year
term as dean of the Humanities Division July 1. A
2001 winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant,
the 32-year-old Allen joined the Chicago faculty in
1997: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040305.allen.shtml
To view or read Danielle Allen's
discussion of "Citizenship, Distrust. and Democracy":
http://research.uchicago.edu/highlights/arts/allen.shtml
Edward Lawlor, dean of the School
of Social Service Administration since 1998, has been
named dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social
Work at Washington University in St. Louis, effective
July 1: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/769.html
* $7.5 MILLION
FOR COSMOLOGICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE
The University's Center for Cosmological Physics,
established by the National Science Foundation in
2001, will use $7.5 million in gifts from Fred Kavli
and the Kavli Foundation to continue research fusing
cosmology with particle physics--as the Kavli Institute
for Cosmological Physics: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040310.kavli.shtml
RESEARCH
AT CHICAGO
* DRUG BLOCKS
ANTHRAX ACTION
A Chicago research team led by Wei-Jen Tang has found
that a drug approved for treating chronic hepatitis
B can block one of anthrax's two deadly toxins: http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2004/20040216-adefovir.php
* NEWS PARENTS
CAN USE: BABIES KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
Studies by Chicago psychologist Amanda Woodward show
that the basic human capacity to read the intentions
of others--in other words, to understand that actions
can be goal-directed--emerges early in the first year
of life: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040304/intentions.shtml
TODAY
@ UChiBLOGo
* CHILLY
SCENES OF WINTER
If you missed winter on the quads, catch Northern
Exposure's end-of-the-quarter slide show: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/UChiBLOGo/
FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
* MEDICAL
INSURANCE BRIDGES THE GAP
Are you between school and job--or job and job--and
therefore between insurance plans? The Alumni Association
sponsors short-term medical insurance for periods
of 31 to 185 days. For more information about either
short-term medical or life insurance, call Meyer and
Associates at 800/635-7801, e-mail info@meyerandassoc.com,
or go to: http:/www.alumni.uchicago.edu/insurance.html
* CHICAGO'S
WOMEN ATHLETES CELEBRATE 100 YEARS
The U of C's Women's Athletic Association marks its
centennial during Alumni Weekend with a Saturday,
June 5, dinner, and a Sunday, June 6, day of fun and--what
else?--games. For more information and a list of attendees
to date, visit the Graduate Women's Athletics Association's
new Web site: http://www.ucgwaa.org
* ART CONTEST
ON SCIENCE'S SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Chicago's Materials Research Center is sponsoring
its second annual art contest. Entries--encompassing
recorded sound and sound collages, as well as films,
video, and animation that take a fresh look at the
creative connections between art and science--are
due April 30. To find out more and see last year's
winners: http://mrsec.uchicago.edu/s3_project
* TAKE A
CHANCE ON LOVE
When summer runs riot, so does love. For its June
issue the Magazine is offering a Personals ad special
to alumni readers: $25 for a listing of up to 25 words
(your e-mail address counts as one word). Deadline
is May 1. For more information call 773/702-2163 or
e-mail uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu.
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