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Chicago Booth’s Gentzkow awarded 2014 Clark Medal
The American Economic Association has named University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Matthew Gentzkow winner of the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to an American economist under...
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 26 members with UChicago ties
The newly elected class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences includes eight UChicago faculty members and 18 additional University and Laboratory Schools alumni—three of whom are...
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National Academy of Sciences elects five from UChicago, Marine Biological...
Four University of Chicago faculty members and a scientist at the affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., have been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The new...
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French foreign minister to present Prof. Robert Morrissey with Legion of Honor
Laurent Fabius, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, will bestow the French Legion of Honor upon Prof. Robert Morrissey during a special ceremony May 11 hosted by...
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University honors faculty members for exemplary teaching, mentoring of...
Every year, the University honors members of the faculty who exhibit exemplary teaching and mentoring to graduate students with the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. The...
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Moore Foundation selects Matthew Stephens for Data-Driven Discovery grant
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has announced the University of Chicago’s Matthew Stephens as the recipient of a Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery award. Stephens, a professor in...
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UChicago researcher receives prestigious NIH New Innovator Award
UChicago researcher Sarah Cobey has received a prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award. Cobey, assistant professor in ecology and evolution, will receive $2.1 million...
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David Awschalom to receive 2015 Lilienfeld Prize from American Physical Society
The American Physical Society has announced that it will present its 2015 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize to David Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Spintronics and Quantum Information at the...
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David Nirenberg receives prestigious 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced that David Nirenberg, dean of the Social Sciences Division, will receive the 2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for his book, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition....
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Alex Eskin named Simons Investigator in mathematics
Prof. Alex Eskin is among the 16 scholars of mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the mathematical modeling of living systems who have been selected as 2014 Simons...
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Packard Foundation names Jacob Bean a 2014 fellow
The University of Chicago’s Jacob Bean has received a 2014 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. Bean is one of 18 early-career scientists and engineers nationwide to receive the fellowship...
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Diversity Leadership Council adds faculty category to Diversity Leadership...
The University of Chicago’s Diversity Leadership Council is seeking nominations for the Diversity Leadership Awards it presents during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in January. Since...
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Shubin, colleagues win Kavli science journalism award for adaptation of “Your...
The University of Chicago’s Neil Shubin, along with Michael Rosenfeld from Tangled Bank Productions and David Dugan from Windfall Films, will share the 2014 Kavli Science Journalism Award for “in-depth...
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Metaknowledge projects receive $1.38 million in grant funding
Knowledge Lab granted 1.38 million dollars this week to support 15 data-driven projects about how ideas are formed and circulated. Supported by the John Templeton Foundation, the grants encompass 11...
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MLA honors Steinberg for work on Dante
The Divine Comedy may not seem like a conventional legal thriller, but it shares with that genre a preoccupation with justice and structured systems of punishment and reward. Prof. Justin Steinberg...
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University’s sponsored research funding advances groundbreaking innovation,...
The University of Chicago received $451 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2014, a slight increase from the previous year’s figure of $449.8 million. A total of 2,333 awards were...
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Susan Kidwell receives Mary Clark Thompson Medal
The National Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2015 Mary Clark Thompson Medal to geologist Susan Kidwell, the William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences and the Committee on Evolutionary...
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Five UChicago scholars receive 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded five UChicago faculty members 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships: Eric Budish, associate professor of economics at Chicago Booth; Jian Ding, assistant professor...
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Former director of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to receive Alumni Medal...
The University of Chicago Alumni Association and the Alumni Board of Governors announce that leading physicist, Edward C. Stone, SM’59, PhD’64, will be awarded the Alumni Medal at the 74th Annual...
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Three faculty members receive American Council of Learned Societies fellowships
Three University of Chicago faculty members have received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. These prestigious fellowships allow scholars to spend six to 12 months on full-time...
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