Faculty Political Science Announcements
Why UChicago’s atomic village mattered beyond its scientific discoveries
John Mark Hansen explores why the researchers at the school’s Metallurgical Laboratory were able to grapple with the moral dilemmas around atomic scie...
December 10, 2024
Announcements Faculty Sociology
New research shows how human-aware AI helps us accelerate scientific discoveries
"It's about changing the framing of AI from artificial intelligence to radically augmented intelligence.” A new study explores how artificial intel...
December 10, 2024
Psychology 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 LabBy Sarah SteimerUsing function...
January 13, 2025
Sixteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships
Sixteen University of Chicago faculty members have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships. Profs. Michael Franklin,...
December 10, 2024
Announcements Faculty History Sociology Psychology Social Thought
UChicago announces 2023 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards
This article was originally published by UChicago News. We've highlighted the awardees from the Division of the Social Sciences, but you can view the ...
December 10, 2024
Announcements Faculty Economics
Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel laureate and pioneering economist, 1937-2023
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. University of Chicago scholar’s research on rational e...
December 10, 2024
Announcements Faculty Psychology
Amanda Woodward reappointed as dean of the Division of the Social Sciences
Prof. Amanda Woodward has been reappointed dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. The William S. Gray Distinguis...
December 10, 2024
Sociology 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...
December 10, 2024
Large-scale study challenges our understanding of memorable images
Using the THINGS database, researchers find semantic features and typical objects have a stronger influence on our memories than previously thought. ...
December 10, 2024
Social Sciences on the Big Screen
Alumni-in-Residence event spotlights the intersection of social sciences and filmmaking By Audrey Weckwerth The Alumni-in-Residence program has...
March 29, 2024