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Amanda Woodward

Story Amanda Woodward named dean of the Division of the Social Sciences

Asya Akca at NATO in 2017

Story Asya Akca AB’18, MA’18 on Pursuing a Joint Degree and What Comes Next

Story Xi Song: Studying Social Status Across Generations

Story 2018 Dialogo: Urban Research in Practice

Historic Chicago

Story Sociology’s Robert Vargas on Gerrymandering and the Geography of Violence in Chicago

The Division of the Social Sciences has announced the 2018 recipients of the inaugural seed grants for its Social Sciences Research Center.

Story 2018 SSRC Faculty Seed Grant Program Recipients Announced

Beginning in July of 2018, awards to five faculty in Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and the Harris School of Public Policy will facilitate research taking place on four continents.

Story Announcing CISSR'S 2018-2019 Faculty Fellows

New research shows that people are more willing to eat foods that they find disgusting if those foods are presented in a foreign language, such as "escargot" rather than "snails".

Story Describing certain foods in a foreign language reduces aversion

New gift, second-largest in UChicago history, will bring Ken Griffin’s total giving to nearly $150 million

Story University of Chicago announces $125 million gift to support economic scholarship

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The Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

The Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

The Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics advances inquiry that illuminates our choices, our economy, our society, and our future.

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

The Neubauer Collegium supports innovative collaborative research projects of University of Chicago faculty, while pioneering efforts to engage a wider public in humanistic scholarship.

Institute for Mind and Biology

Institute for Mind and Biology

The Institute for Mind and Biology at The University of Chicago supports scientific research answering fundamental questions about the mind and its dynamic interactions with the biological systems of the body.

UChicago SLC uses a researcher/practitioner inquiry model, grounded in an iterative process that allows for continuous feedback, data collection, revised methods, and implementation.

UChicago Science of Learning Center

UChicago SLC researchers engage in multifaceted educational research, including laboratory studies that identify robust learning principles and test the efectiveness of interventions, studies of learning in home and school environments, and analyses of existing datasets. 

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