Alumni Student Social Thought Anthropology Announcements

A fund created to support the next generation of scholars

The Elmer Kennedy Memorial Fund invests in SSD Teaching FellowsBy Sarah SteimerA son and his family’s remembrance of his father has created an investm...

Faculty Student Political Economy Political Science Announcements

College Students Co-author Scholarly Article on Climate Change Attitudes

The final quarter of a Social Science Inquiry sequence, taught by Andrew Eggers, saw students collaborating on the design and execution of a social sc...

Faculty Student Political Science Political Economy Announcements

Pathways in World Politics previews international relations studies at a research university

Over three weeks, high school students explore world politics in a university environment, and with research-focused professors teaching the course, l...

Student Alumni Announcements

A highlight for students and graduates, the Alumni-in-Residence program marks a successful year

The program includes workshops, speaker sessions, and one-on-one networking to help grow career connections and the UChicago community.By Sarah Steime...

Faculty Student Announcements

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 (phot...

Faculty 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...

Political 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 ...

Faculty 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...

Political Science Student

John Henry Murdy comments on the chaos in Ecuador

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 Lab By Sarah Steimer Using ...