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December 23, 2008 |
Top Stories
Singin’ in the brainWhen young birds hear and practice a new song, they keep on practicing during sleep—and sing better the next day. Sylvan Shank, PhD’08, and Chicago professor Daniel Margoliash charted the birds’ nighttime brain activity in a Nature study that sheds light on sleep’s role in human learning. Listen to the December 18 Nature Podcast “Learning to Sing.” |
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How to stem cancerLearning how leukemia takes over privileged niches within the bone marrow is helping Medical Center researchers develop ways to protect healthy, blood-forming stem cells and improve the outcomes of bone-marrow transplants. |
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Another chapter for the chapelAs the new dean of Rockefeller Chapel, Elizabeth Davenport hopes to infuse the chapel with life and events representative of Chicago’s diverse student body. |
Chicago in the News
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Los Angeles Times: Being naughty has more impact than being nice. Chicago psychologists find new patterns of give-and-take in social situations. (December 17, 2008)
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Chicago Tribune: U of C to introduce ‘open housing.’ Coed dorm rooms will be an option for non-freshmen in the College. (December 20, 2008)
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Wall Street Journal: Education pick backs test-heavy regime. President-elect Obama taps Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan, U-High'82, to lead national education policy. (December 17, 2008)
From the Editors
Win the war of words
At holiday gatherings, alumni events, or wherever two or more UChicagoans find themselves in the same room, certain words and phrases always arise—phoenix-like—from the clashes.
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