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May 19, 2009 |
Top Stories
Future filletJason Matheny, AB’96, envisions the day when beef and chicken grown in labs will help prevent heart attacks and protect the environment—if enough people swallow the concept. |
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Make no little quadsChicago’s Hyde Park campus undergoes its biggest building boom in a century. |
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Hyde Park’s Olympic historyWilliam Rainey Harper and a committee of University luminaries led the city’s winning bid for the 1904 Games—only to suffer the agony of defeat. |
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The future of marketsHow much regulation do financial markets need? Do stimulus programs work? Those are two of the questions Chicago Booth faculty and alumni will discuss during the 57th Management Conference on Friday, May 29. If you can’t be there, there’s a Webcast. |
Chicago in the News
- Chicago Public Radio: Tagging along for the world’s largest scavenger hunt. An audio postcard from this year’s edition of the four-days-in-May tradition. (May 13, 2009)
- Chicago Tribune: Leon Despres, 1908–2009. Chicago alderman and liberal voice of the city, Despres, AB’27, JD’29, championed civil rights and political reforms. (May 7, 2009)
- Wall Street Journal: Holding college chiefs to their words. President Zimmer and other top college presidents wrote their own admissions essays. Chicago’s president chose a Chicago topic: “Living the question.” (May 6, 2009)
- Scientist: Bright ideas. Deputy Provost for Research Keith Moffat used his background in physics to tinker with tools that light up molecules in motion. (May 4, 2009)
- New York Times: A travel coordinator for lizards and the like. Adrianna Gyorfi, AB’08, found her first job at the American Museum of Natural History. (May 4, 2009)
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