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James A. Robinson shares 2024 Nobel Prize for research on global inequality
Economist becomes 101st scholar associated with UChicago to receive Nobel PrizeEditor’s note: This story will be updated throughout the day. View the ...
October 14, 2024
Faculty Sociology Announcements
NORC’s Longitudinal Aging Project Receives Five-Year, $46.7 Million Grant from NIH
Funding continues work of the 20-plus-year studyBy Sarah Steimer The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a five-year, $46.7 million grant to ...
October 10, 2024
Alumni Student Social Thought Anthropology Announcements
A fund created to support the next generation of scholars
The Elmer Kennedy Memorial Fund invests in SSD Teaching FellowsBy Sarah SteimerA son and his family’s remembrance of his father has created an investm...
October 10, 2024
Economics Faculty Announcements
Challenging Long-Held Assumptions About Early Childhood Education Outcomes
Groundbreaking Study Affirms Long-Term Benefits of Preschool Programs Beyond Test Scores New analysis from the University of Chicago’s Center for the...
October 6, 2024
Ralph A. Austen, African Studies professor and a ‘scholar’s scholar,’ 1937-2024
The late academic was a champion of UChicago workshops, a deeply curious individual, and a dedicated family and community man.By Sarah SteimerRalph A....
September 12, 2024
Faculty Alumni History Announcements
Czech Republic President Petr Pavel to speak at the inaugural Václav Havel Lecture
As Americans and the world grapple with a growing sense of polarization, a new lecture series will revisit the life and legacy of Václav Havel, a worl...
September 3, 2024
Faculty Student Political Economy Political Science Announcements
College Students Co-author Scholarly Article on Climate Change Attitudes
The final quarter of a Social Science Inquiry sequence, taught by Andrew Eggers, saw students collaborating on the design and execution of a social sc...
September 3, 2024
Faculty Student Political Science Political Economy Announcements
Pathways in World Politics previews international relations studies at a research university
Over three weeks, high school students explore world politics in a university environment, and with research-focused professors teaching the course, l...
September 3, 2024
Considering the appeal of militarism as a form of politics
Using observational and archival research, Samuel Fury Childs Daly explores what happens when soldiers take over the government — and why so many foun...
September 3, 2024
Sociology Economics Announcements Faculty Social Sciences Research Center
Prof. James Evans receives $20M NSF grant for AI modeling project
Prof. James Evans is building a treasure map. Buried underneath layers of data, he believes, are golden discoveries that could help us solve some of t...
August 26, 2024