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Five faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Five UChicago faculty members are among the 213 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists and business leaders newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Profs....
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University of Chicago Press honors Prof. Amir Sufi for book on Great Recession
The University of Chicago Press has awarded the 2016 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Prof. Amir Sufi, who co-authored House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession and How We Can Prevent It...
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Augusta Read Thomas receives prestigious composition and cultural honors
University Professor of Composition Augusta Read Thomas has won the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Composer’s Award for 2015-16, the oldest award of its kind in the nation honoring contemporary composers...
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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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Two faculty members receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Two UChicago faculty members have received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships: Thomas Christensen, the Avalaon Foundation Professor in the Humanities; and Kenneth W. Warren, the...
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UChicago Press honors Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo for book on history of Mexico City
The University of Chicago Press has awarded the 2015 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, professor of history, for his book, I Speak of the City.President Robert J. Zimmer presented the...
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 12 members with UChicago ties
The newly elected class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences includes five UChicago faculty members and seven additional University alumni, including University Trustee Joseph...
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Mathematician Alex Eskin, two alumni elected to National Academy of Sciences
The University’s newest member of the National Academy of Sciences is Alex Eskin, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics. Eskin joins 83 other new members and 21...
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University of Vienna bestows honorary degree on Professor and Dean John W. Boyer
Dean of the College John W. Boyer has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Vienna in recognition of his more than three decades of scholarship on the history of the Habsburg...
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John Carlstrom to receive Gruber Cosmology Prize for experimental...
The 2015 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize has honored the University of Chicago’s John E. Carlstrom, alumnus Jeremiah P. Ostriker, PhD’64, and Princeton University’s Lyman Page for their individual...
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Professor Martha Nussbaum receives Inamori Ethics Prize for ‘exemplary...
Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, has been awarded the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at...
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Microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert named one of Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’
Assoc. Prof. Jack Gilbert, a microbial ecologist at UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory, has been named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” for his environmental and biomedical-focused...
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Physical sciences faculty members collect multiple honors
Six faculty members in the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division recently have received noteworthy professional honors from the American Chemical Society, the Association for Computing...
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Neil Shubin’s ‘Your Inner Fish’ receives Emmy award
“Your Inner Fish,” the three-part, prime-time, PBS special based on the best-selling book by Prof. Neil Shubin, shared the 2015 Emmy award for “outstanding graphic design and art direction” with...
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Profs. Melissa Gilliam and David Meltzer elected to National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine on Oct. 19 announced that Profs. Melissa Gilliam and David Meltzer have been elected to membership in the Academy.Election is considered one of the highest honors in...
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Prof. Emeritus James Hopson receives award for seminal work on mammalian...
Prof. Emeritus James Allen “Jim” Hopson, a distinguished educator and paleontologist whose seminal work on the earliest forerunners to mammals shaped our understanding of mammalian evolutionary...
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Two University of Chicago scientists named AAAS fellows for 2015
Two distinguished scientists and educators have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance...
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Wendy Freedman to receive Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Prof. Wendy Freedman will receive the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, which recognizes outstanding mid-career work in astrophysics.Established in 1979, the Heineman Prize is awarded jointly by...
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