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Faculty Political Science Announcements
September 26 Event to Address Threats to American Democracy
With presidential campaigns and candidate debates underway, the 2024 elections are coming into focus. But given the continuing shadow of the Janua...
September 10, 2023Phonics vs. whole word: The science of reading, with Adrian Johns (Big Brains Ep. 117)
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their page here. The complicated history of how we read—and ways it spark...
October 16, 2023Announcements Faculty Anthropology
An archaeologist talks trash
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. Author, UChicago Asst. Prof. Sarah Newman reframes hist...
August 22, 2023History’s Presence
In the August 17 issue of the Review, the political theorist Adom Getachew writes about Howard French’s Born in Blackness, a radical reexamination of ...
August 22, 2023Faculty Comparative Human Development Announcements
Trauma-informed care for juveniles, not punishment, prevents recidivism
A review of studies points to real-world proof that a punitive response is worse for young people in the criminal legal system. “We are essentially pu...
August 8, 2023Announcements Faculty Sociology
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, 2023