The University of Chicago Magazine: June 2004

Welcome to the JUNE 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 June/04 University of Chicago Magazine is in the mail. It's also online at: http://magazine.uchicago.edu.

Here's a sampling from the JUNE issue:

* MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
The eye is vision's front door, but the brain creates perception. Researchers want to reveal how the mind translates light into visual experience:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0406/features/index.shtml

* BURSTING AT THE SEAMS
A new Center for Creative and Performing Arts could alleviate Chicago's artistic overflow--and develop a model for nurturing the arts at a research institution:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0406/features/seams.shtml

* CHICAGO SEVEN: TAKE THREE
In the third installment of a four-year project, the Magazine revisits its Chicago Seven and finds that the College third-years are, by their own admission, growing up:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0406/features/seven.shtml

TODAY @ UChiBLOGo

* POMP & CIRCUMSTANCES
The Magazine's Web log chronicles the opening sessions of Chicago's 477th Convocation:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/UChiBLOGo/

NEWS FROM CHICAGO

* HAIL, FULBRIGHT FELLOWS!
For the 18th year in a row, Chicago led the nation's educational institutions in Fulbright-Hays doctoral-dissertation research-abroad fellowships. Twenty-three graduate students--68 percent of those who applied from Chicago--received the awards:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040610/fulbright.shtml

* THOSE WHO CAN...TEACH
Spring is the season of honors, including a group of awards recognizing some of Chicago's best educators.

Five professors won 2004 Quantrell awards for teaching in the College:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040527/quantrell-intro.shtml

Two grad students and a recent PhD were honored for their teaching:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040527/booth-prize.shtml

Emeritus professors Eugene Goldwasser, SB'43, PhD'50, and Takeshi Oka won the Alumni Association's Norman Maclean Faculty Awards:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040527/maclean.shtml

RESEARCH AT CHICAGO

* MATCHING GALACTIC THEORY TO FACT
Astrophysicists who use an extension of the big bang theory known as the cold dark matter theory to explain how galaxies form were surprised when supercomputer simulations of the theory didn't mesh with in-the-sky observations. New simulations, designed by Chicago's Andrey Kavtsov and his colleagues, suggest the answer may lie in how dwarf galaxies evolve:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040609.galaxy.shtml

* DINOSAURS AND CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Two newly discovered dinosaur species, unearthed in Niger by Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and his crew, have links to dinosaurs in South America and India--offering fresh evidence about how and when the ancient southern continents separated:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040531.sereno.shtml

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

* ONLINE SMILES: SCENES FROM ALUMNI WEEKEND
More than 2,500 alumni and friends returned to campus June 3-6 for the annual Alumni Weekend, traveling from 31 states, as well as from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. To relive events--or see what you missed--go to the Weekend Photo Album at:
http://alumnireunion.uchicago.edu/index.shtml

* FRESH THINKING FROM FIRST-RATE FACULTY
Democracy in the 21st century, theoretical cosmology, the limits of globalization? How about the Kamasutra, the works of Ben Jonson, the meaning of Martin Luther? Or the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court, building chromosomes, biodefense? Chicago faculty have ideas on those and other topics, and they're eager to share. For video essays on current research at the University:
http://research.uchicago.edu/highlights/

* USE THE AFFINITY CARD, SUPPORT STUDENT AID
The University of Chicago VISA card supports student aid--more than 70 Chicago students have already benefited--and alumni programs. The card offers Value Miles, a low introductory APR, no annual fee, and credit lines up to $100,000--plus a wallet-sized portrait of campus:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/visa/

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