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Division Celebrates 2018 Staff Milestones
Photo credit: Joe Sterbenc On Wednesday, December 5, The Division of the Social Sciences celebrated the 2018 staff service milestones. These awards...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Anthropology
Anthropology’s Kathryn Takabvirwa served as cultural consultant for the Steppenwolf production of Familiar
When Danya Taymor was hired to direct Steppenwolf’s new comedy, Familiar by Danai Gurira, she knew that she had to get the cultural elements exactly r...
August 23, 2023
Announcements Student Psychology
UChicago named in top five universities for degrees in psychology
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November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Psychology
Math App produces long-term benefits for children, parents
Study finds changes in achievement, attitudes persist for several years Parents who are anxious about math can still help their children learn the ...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Student Psychology Comparative Human Development
3 SSD Graduate Students recognized for excellence in course design
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November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Economics
Professor Azeem M. Shaikh named fellow of the Econometric Society
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November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Student Alumni All Departments
Fall 2018 Dialogo: Qualitative Research Offers Insights on Political and Social Systems
Letter from the Dean As you may have noted, recent issues of Dialogo each explore a broad theme that spans the social sciences. In Fall 2017, we ex...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Alumni Economics
Gifts of the papers of George Stigler and Harry G. Johnson will expand understanding of economics at Chicago
The University of Chicago is world renowned for the “Chicago School of Economics” and the 30 Nobel laureates in economic sciences who have been UChica...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Sociology Alumni
Rebecca Sandefur, PhD’01, named MacArthur Fellow
More than two decades ago, Rebecca Sandefur stepped onto the UChicago campus for the first time as a graduate student, drawn by what she saw as a uniq...
October 7, 2020
Announcements Faculty Psychology
Psychology’s Ed Awh offers new insights into how short-term memory works
Short-term memory is the gateway to information storage in the human brain, and Ed Awh has spent his career trying to figure out how exactly it works....
November 21, 2019