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GSB says adios to Barcelona, hello to London
The Graduate School of Business will move its European campus from
Barcelona to London this summer, taking advantage of the city's
status as a financial center and its connections to market-oriented
economies around the world:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050203/gsb-london.shtml
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Katharine Graham leaves liberal-arts legacy
The estate of the late Katharine Graham, AB'38, former publisher
of the Washington Post, has given the University $5.5 million, with
$4 million to support Chicago's Society of Fellows in the Liberal
Arts, a program to create an elite cadre of specialists in liberal-arts
teaching :
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/050210.graham.shtml
Research
at Chicago
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RIA -- U of C is still a contender
University scientists are still hopeful that the U.S. Department
of Energy will decide to build the $1 billion Rare Isotope Accelerator
(RIA) at Argonne National Laboratory, despite a cut in preliminary
funding for the project in this year's DOE budget:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/050208.ria.shtml
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CREAM of the balloon crop
A NASA scientific balloon carrying a Chicago-built detector--the
Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) experiment-- broke distance
and duration records, flying for nearly 42 days and making three
orbits around the South Pole. Long flights mean ample data:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/050202.cream.shtml
Today
@ UChiBLOGo
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Dangerous liaisons
The Magazine's Web log attends opening night of Court Theatre's
production of Quartet:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/uchiblogo/
From
the University of Chicago Alumni Association
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Join the alumni discussion of Walden
Is Henry David Thoreau's philosophy too impractical? Too selfish?
Would HDT have liked to surf? These are a few of the questions alumni
have pondered online in the past few days as they consider Thoreau's
Walden, published 150 years ago in August 1854. Visit the Web site
for the text and supplementary materials; sign up to join the discourse;
plan to visit campus Saturday, June 4, for a faculty panel discussion
of the work--you can participate in any or all of these. The conversation
begins the minute you visit:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/commontext/walden
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Volunteer as a career contact
Share your professional, academic, and volunteer experiences and
insights. The online alumni careers network is a database of alumni
contacts who help students and alumni learn more about a profession,
institution, or activity. Conversations take place via phone, e-mail,
written correspondence, or in-person meetings. To join the 8,000-plus
alumni who volunteer their real-world expertise, go to:
http://alumniservices.uchicago.edu/careers/network_main.asp
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Transportation as destination
Join Professor Wayne Booth this September aboard the Queen Mary
2 for a transatlantic passage from Southampton to New York. After
four days of private tours and behind-the-scene visits at cultural
sights in London, we'll spend six days in a floating classroom with
lectures and discussions led by Professor Booth and other scholars
from Britain and America. For details:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/study.html
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