The College received a record 12,368 applications for the 2008-2009 school year—a 20 percent increase from last year’s 10,334. “Clearly students like what they learn about us,” said Michael Behnke, ...

The Alumni Association has bestowed this year its highest honor, the Alumni Medal, on Robert McCormick Adams, a former Chicago faculty member and administrator (Ph.B.,’47, A.M.,’52, Ph.D.,’56), who is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sherwin Rosen, a leading labor economist and president of the American Economics Association, died Saturday, March 17, at the University’s Bernard Mitchell Hospital. He was 62. Rosen, the Edwin A. and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edgar Meyer (directly above, left), a performer and composer who began learning the bass at age 5, teaches Kirsten Paige and Andrew Harmon (top photos) in a master class in Fulton Recital Hall. Meyer, ...

Mathematicians at the University have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Mathematical Society. Wilhelm Schlag, Professor in Mathematics and the ...