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Faculty Psychology Comparative Human Development Announcements
Goldin-Meadow wins 2021 David E. Rumelhart Prize for her cognitive science research
The Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor is recognized for her work exploring the origins of language By Sarah Steimer Susan ...
August 3, 2021![stock image](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2021-05/istock-1316778178-sm.jpg?itok=555Yed8Z)
Faculty Comparative Human Development Announcements
NIH awards grant to University of Chicago researchers exploring law enforcement language on police radios
The study will analyze police scanner audio to find whether nuances in language increase the likelihood of adverse interactions between law enforcemen...
June 21, 2021![Raffaella Taylor-Seymour](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/raffaella_taylor-seymour.jpeg?itok=AheKaO_A)
Student Anthropology Comparative Human Development Announcements
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Human Development and the Department of Anthropology, has been n...
May 14, 2021![W. Allison Davis](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2021-05/allison-davis-featured.jpg?itok=S60WORt4)
Student Comparative Human Development Sociology Psychology Announcements
2021 – 2022 W. Allison Davis Research Awards for Doctoral Students Announced
The Division of the Social Sciences and the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice have announced the 2021-2022 recipients of the W....
May 8, 2021![SSD Quad in the Spring](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2021-04/spring_campus_1380.jpg?itok=OXBbqaKU)
Announcements Faculty History Comparative Human Development Economics
Three SSD Faculty Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
This article is adapted from a UChicago News article. Read the original story on their site here. Four UChicago scholars awarded 2021 Guggenheim ...
July 13, 2023![winter quad](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2020-12/winter2019crop-small.jpg?itok=ys7D9XLO)
Comparative Human Development Anthropology Faculty Announcements
Two Division Faculty Honored with Named and Distinguished Service Professorships
Twenty-three University of Chicago faculty members have received named professorships or have been appointed distinguished service professors. Prof...
December 22, 2020![Community members of La Ciudadela in Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia organize a march to support peacebuilding efforts in the Fall of 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2020-12/mcfee_flf_profile.jpg?itok=cUJXwm3c)
Student Alumni Anthropology Comparative Human Development Announcements
UChicago Postdoctoral Scholar wins prestigious seven-year grant from UK government
By Anjali Anand In January 2017, it was announced that members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would demobilize and d...
December 10, 2020![Richard Taub](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2020-09/taub_obit.jpg?itok=opg-Z1Tx)
Announcements Faculty Sociology Comparative Human Development
Richard P. Taub, esteemed sociologist who studied Chicago neighborhoods, 1937–2020
This obituary was originally published by UChicago News. Read it on their site here. UChicago scholar, policy expert on community development...
July 13, 2023![Micere Keels](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2020-02/keels.png?itok=p1p6exfo)
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