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July 14, 2009 |
Top Stories
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The fighter still remainsCocaine and crack once consumed Mark Allen, AB’01, but now he battles his demons in the ring. |
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Rowley’s rewarding researchPritzker School of Medicine professor Janet D. Rowley, PhB’45, SB’46, MD’48, wins the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation’s $500,000 Genetics Prize for research that established genetic causes of leukemia and lymphoma. |
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A dorm no moreAfter three decades as a student residence hall, the historic Shoreland closed in June. Its successor opens at 61st and Ellis this fall. |
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Colorful personalityAt 81, Wolf Kahn, AB’50, spends ten hours a day, seven days a week in his studio. |
Chicago in the News
- Inside Higher Ed: How PhD programs will be judged. Princeton astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, PhD’64, chaired the National Research Council committee that produced a new system for ranking the nation’s graduate programs. (July 10, 2009)
- Associated Press: U of C launches neighborhood-mapping project. Students and residents team up to map six South Side neighborhoods. (July 10, 2009)
- Los Angeles Times: Library graffiti at the University of Chicago. New-media staffer Quinn Dombrowski documents the politics, poetry, pleas, and polls of U of C graffiti. (July 8, 2009)
- New York Times: Mortgages made simpler. Chicago Booth behavioral economist Richard Thaler advocates putting "vanilla mortgages" on the menu for the Homer Simpsons of the world. Mmmmm…vanilla. (July 4, 2009)
- Dissent: A right to marry? Same-sex marriage and constitutional law. Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum argues against objections to same-sex marriage in an essay adapted from her forthcoming book From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and the Constitution. (Summer 2009)
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