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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