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Chuan He honored for contributions to advancing cancer research
Chuan He, the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, is one of three recipients of this year’s Paul Marks Prize...
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Japanese government honors Prof. Raaj Sah for analysis of economic and...
Prof. Raaj Sah has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the government of Japan.Conferred on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, the award honors Sah’s...
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Three UChicago faculty members named AAAS fellows
Three members of the University of Chicago faculty were named as 2017 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows are elected by AAAS members for their scientifically or...
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Prof. Richard Thaler to receive Nobel Prize this weekend
Nearly two months have passed since a 4 a.m. call from Sweden changed the life of economist Richard Thaler.That morning, Thaler called receiving the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in...
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Prof. Richard Thaler delivers Nobel Prize lecture
Until Prof. Richard H. Thaler came along, economists resisted the idea of basing their models on how real people behave. The reality is people don’t always know what they want, much less what’s best...
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UChicago names recipients of Diversity Leadership Awards
Advocating for the concerns of those whose voices aren't heard is a hallmark of diversity leadership. The University of Chicago’s 2018 Diversity Leadership Award recipients have dedicated their lives...
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Historian Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo receives Humboldt Award
Prof. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo has received a prestigious award from a German foundation for his research on Latin American history.Granted annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany,...
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Award honors Prof. Eugene Parker’s lifetime of physics research
Prof. Emeritus Eugene Parker’s ideas were once widely questioned in the physics world. This week, he will receive one of the field’s highest honors.Parker will receive the American Physical Society’s...
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Two UChicago mathematicians awarded one of field’s top prizes
University of Chicago mathematicians Alexander Beilinson and Vladimir Drinfeld have been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Mathematics “for their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry,...
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Lorraine Daston honored for research on the history of science
Lorraine Daston, a visiting professor in UChicago’s John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Department of History, has been awarded the Dan David Prize for her achievements in the research of...
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Two UChicago faculty members win Sloan research fellowships
University of Chicago chemist Timothy Berkelbach and neurobiologist Mark Sheffield have been awarded Sloan research fellowships.The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gives the awards annually to early-career...
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Five UChicago scholars awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
Five UChicago faculty members have earned 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships: Bryan Dickinson, assistant professor of chemistry; Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, assistant professor of chemistry; Joseph...
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Prof. David Awschalom awarded defense department grant for high-risk,...
David Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Spintronics and Quantum Information, has been selected as a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, which supports bold and ambitious research that can have...
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Five UChicago faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Five members of the UChicago faculty are among the 228 members elected to the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Profs. Lenore Grenoble, Young-Kee Kim, Jonathan Lear, W. J. T....
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Alexander Beilinson, Douglas Diamond elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two University of Chicago faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Alexander Beilinson, the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor of Mathematics; and Douglas W....
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Three faculty members elected to American Philosophical Society
Three UChicago faculty members have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States.They are Lorraine Daston, visiting professor in the John U. Nef...
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Jeffrey Hubbell honored for landmark biomaterials research
Jeffrey Hubbell, the Barry L. MacLean Professor of Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Chicago, recently received the Society for Biomaterials’ 2017 Founders Award, the...
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Prof. David Nirenberg awarded Laing Prize from UChicago Press
The University of Chicago Press has awarded the Gordon J. Laing Prize to Prof. David Nirenberg for Neighboring Faiths, his examination of the interactions of Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle...
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College recognizes excellence in teaching with Quantrell Awards
The Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards, believed to be the nation’s oldest prize for undergraduate teaching, reflect the College’s commitment to honor inspiring teachers.Andrew...
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Faculty honored for excellence in graduate teaching
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring recognizes tenure-track and tenured faculty in the Biological Sciences, Divinity School, Humanities, Institute for Molecular...
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