Architect Helmut Jahn designed the new elliptical glass-domed Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which will be built adjacent to the Joseph Regenstein Library. The architecture of the new library ...

Created in 1941, the Alumni Medal is awarded to recognize achievement of an exceptional nature in any field, vocational or voluntary, covering an entire career. It is the highest honor the Alumni ...

Two University professors– Vladimir Drinfeld, Professor in Mathematics, and Ralph Weichselbaum, the Harold H. Hines Professor and Chairman of Radiation & Cellular Oncology–received named chairs, ...

Jay Berwanger, football star at the University and first winner of the Heisman Trophy, died Wednesday, June 26, of lung cancer. He was 88 years old. To football aficionados, Berwanger is well known as ...

The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the ...

The big bang could be a normal event in the natural evolution of the universe that will happen repeatedly over incredibly vast time scales as the universe expands, empties out and cools off, according ...

The University has signed a participation letter with the new International Student Loan Program, which will provide loans requiring no co-signer to international students at the Chicago Booth School ...

Bryan Ho, a third-year, explains his team’s proposal for the non-profit organization called, “Got ya” during a class presentation of student projects. When working with a non-profit client as part of ...

During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance ...

The Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is the nation’s oldest prize given for undergraduate teaching. In 1938, Ernest Quantrell made an ...

A wealth of material that documents the ancient Middle East has become available through a new, free online service at the Oriental Institute. The material comes from the extensive collection at the ...

The University has developed an energy consumption reduction program with the first installment of a $2.5 million donation from James and Paula Crown of Chicago. The University’s sustainability ...