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A new Big Problems course offers scientific thinking to improve decision-making in a democracy
In the timely new class, UChicago undergraduates join UC Berkeley and Harvard to apply scientific reasoning in everyday life By Sarah Steimer A ...
April 11, 2024Faculty RDI Student Announcements
A community-engaged format brought the learning environment to life in Professor Ewing’s Afrofuturism(s) course
The course brought enrolled Uchicago students and community members together as they explored the dynamic genre. By Sarah Steimer Afrofuturi...
March 19, 2024Political Science Faculty Student Announcements
Professor Mark Hansen researches the untold story of Cora Belle Jackson, AB 1896, UChicago’s first Black graduate.
The University of Chicago student body was racially integrated on the very first day of classes in 1892, but just barely. Its first cohort included a ...
February 19, 2024Faculty Student Psychology Announcements
Can artists predict the memorability of their own work?
A new study from the Brain Bridge Lab asks artists to submit work they deem either memorable or forgettable as the team continues to research if certa...
February 4, 2024Psychology 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, 2024Faculty 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, 2023Comparative Human Development Sociology Faculty Student
2023 Saller Prize Recipients Announced
Pranathi Diwakar, from the Department of Sociology, and Paula Martin, from the Department of Comparative Human Development, have been selected as the ...
June 12, 2023Sociology Faculty Student Announcements
Data4All workshop introduces high school students to data science research
The collaborative effort between the Center for Spatial Data Science (CSDS), the Data Science Institute (DSI), Argonne National Laboratory, and the Of...
May 3, 2023Student Economics Announcements
Development Innovation Lab Spotlight
Insight into UChicago’s premier development economics innovation center By Audrey Weckwerth Nearly a year after its official launch at the Unive...
March 14, 2023