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...
December 10, 2024
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
Announcements Faculty Sociology
Sociology’s René Flores examines the cultural stereotypes that drive perceptions of illegal status
Who are the “illegals”? Heated rhetoric on “illegal” immigrants has dominated the media for the past few years, with politicians and pundits blamin...
December 10, 2024
Announcements Alumni Economics
Scholar becomes 91st person associated with UChicago to receive Nobel Prize
Paul Romer, a University of Chicago alumnus and former faculty member, was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfre...
November 21, 2019
2018 Alumni Award and Norman Maclean Faculty Award Recipients Announced
Congratulations to four social sciences alumni on their receipt of an award this year: Early Career Achievement Award: Yuval Levin, AM’02, PhD’10 ...
November 21, 2019