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National Academy of Sciences honors neuroscientist David Freedman
Assoc. Prof. David Freedman, a neuroscientist who studies the neural underpinnings of learning, memory and decision-making, has been awarded the 2016 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of...
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Juan de Pablo elected to National Academy of Engineering
Juan de Pablo, the Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and deputy director for education and outreach, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “design of macromolecular...
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James Heckman earns international honor for his research on poverty
Nobel laureate James Heckman is one of this year’s recipients of the Dan David Prize, an international honor which encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research, for his scholarship on...
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Sloan Foundation awards research fellowships to five UChicago scholars
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded five UChicago faculty members 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships: Rina Foygel Barber, assistant professor of statistics; Loukas Karabarbounis, associate...
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President Obama honors two scholars as extraordinary early-career scientists
Asst. Profs. Jonathan Simon and Bozhi Tian are among the 105 researchers that President Obama has named recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. These awards are the...
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Four faculty members earn Guggenheim fellowships
Four UChicago faculty members have won John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships: Lauren Berlant, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature;...
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Prof. Augusta Read Thomas receives prestigious composer and cultural awards
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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National Academy of Sciences elects two UChicago faculty members
Two UChicago faculty members—mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld and physicist Wayne Hu—have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. They are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates...
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Juan de Pablo to receive 2016 DuPont Medal for excellence in nutrition and...
The Danisco Foundation has selected the University of Chicago’s Juan de Pablo as the recipient of the DuPont Nutrition and Health Science and Excellence Medal 2016.The Liew Family Professor in...
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Jared Lewis receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Asst. Prof. Jared LewisdownloadJared Lewis has been selected for a 2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Lewis, an assistant professor in chemistry...
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Prof. Emeritus Michael J. Murrin to receive Norman Maclean Faculty Award
Michael J. Murrin, the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Divinity School, has...
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Prof. Martha Nussbaum wins Kyoto Prize
Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics and a world-renowned philosopher whose wide-ranging work often centers on questions of human vulnerability, has...
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Faculty members recognized with named, distinguished service professorships
Ten faculty members have received named professorships or have been named distinguished service professors. Luc Anselin, John R. Birge, John List and Angela Olinto received distinguished service...
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Chemistry faculty members earn professional distinctions
Members of the University of Chicago chemistry faculty have collected a variety of local, national and international distinctions in recent weeks.Prof. Yamuna KrishnandownloadYamuna Krishnan, professor...
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UChicago scientists receive honors from Simons Foundation, American Chemical...
The Simons Foundation and the American Chemical Society have honored a quartet of faculty members in the Physical Sciences Division.The Simons Foundation has named Jeffrey Harvey, the Enrico Fermi...
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MBL Director Huntington Willard elected to National Academy of Medicine
Huntington F. Willard, president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the...
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Prof. Neil Shubin honored for research on limbs, organ evolution
Neil Shubin, the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy, has been selected to receive the Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum at a Nov. 4...
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Gift from Nussbaum’s Kyoto Prize to create award for graduate students
Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum will donate a portion of her 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy to the University of Chicago Law School and the Department of Philosophy to create a financial award...
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Four UChicago faculty members named AAAS fellows
Geoffrey GreenedownloadFour University of Chicago scientists representing the Biological Sciences Division have been named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences....
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Award boosts development of solar cells with atomically thin semiconductors
Chemistry professor Jiwoong Park has won a $120,000 award over two years from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to support a postdoctoral fellow who will help develop advanced photovoltaic...
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