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, ...

Wayne Booth, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and one of the 20th century’s most prominent and influential literary critics, died at his ...

At their Wednesday, March 10 meeting, members of the University’s Board of Trustees approved a 5 percent increase in undergraduate tuition, room and board charges for the academic year 2004-2005.

In conjunction with the Provost’s Office, Student Services and the News Office, the Web Services group in Networking Services and Information Technologies has ...

The Board of Trustees has approved plans to develop University-owned land south of the Midway Plaisance as part of the Campus Master Plan. The board recently approved both Phase One and Phase Two of ...

Researchers at the University have discovered there is extensive gene “traffic”—the process of genes leaving and arriving on the chromosome—on the mammalian X chromosome. They also have overturned a ...

The last session of “The Idea of the University Colloquia” was presented by President Randel (at right, in photo at left), who talks with Robert Pippin, the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner ...

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 ...

The University will confer about 3,000 degrees on students from the College, graduate divisions and professional schools at its 498th Convocation ceremonies. Sessions will be held Friday, June 12, ...