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Exploring How Uncertainty Motivates Our Actions in Epidemics
In an epidemic, we often focus on three staple metrics: Who does or doesn’t have the disease, the rate at which people are contracting the disease, an...
August 8, 2023Faculty Political Science Announcements
Why UChicago’s atomic village mattered beyond its scientific discoveries
John Mark Hansen explores why the researchers at the school’s Metallurgical Laboratory were able to grapple with the moral dilemmas around atomic scie...
July 25, 2023Announcements Faculty Sociology
New research shows how human-aware AI helps us accelerate scientific discoveries
"It's about changing the framing of AI from artificial intelligence to radically augmented intelligence.” A new study explores how artificial intel...
September 2, 2023Psychology Faculty Student Announcements
New research shows brain activity travels between a small number of states based on what we are thinking and paying attention to
The brain state optimal for focus depends on the task, according to a paper from the Cognition, Attention, and Brain Lab By Sarah Steimer Using ...
January 8, 2024Sixteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships
Sixteen University of Chicago faculty members have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships. Profs. Michael Franklin,...
October 12, 2023Faculty Student Psychology Announcements
Your Ability to Remember a Work of Art May Be Predictable
A new study from the Brain Bridge Lab used Art Institute of Chicago paintings and a neural network to predict naturalistic memory. By Sarah Steimer...
October 23, 2023Announcements Faculty Psychology
Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. UChicago psychology study finds novel relationship bet...
October 23, 2023Announcements Faculty History Sociology Psychology Social Thought
UChicago announces 2023 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
This article was originally published by UChicago News. We've highlighted the awardees from the Division of the Social Sciences, but you can view the ...
July 13, 2023Announcements Faculty Economics
Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel laureate and pioneering economist, 1937-2023
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. University of Chicago scholar’s research on rational e...
July 13, 2023Announcements Faculty Psychology
Amanda Woodward reappointed as dean of the Division of the Social Sciences
Prof. Amanda Woodward has been reappointed dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. The William S. Gray Distinguis...
July 13, 2023