Survey on physicians’ religious beliefs shows majority faithful By John Easton Medical Center Public Affairs The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe ...

Evidence for warfare was first reported in 2005, but this season the excavators found gruesome details associated with the preparation for the battle and the aftermath. “We found sling bullets at ...

A year after the looting of the Iraqi National Museum, Oriental Institute archaeologists continue to track missing artifacts. And their work is playing a pivotal role in helping recover items stolen ...

Although he performed both of his prize-winning experiments in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory on the University’s campus early in the 20th century, his work continues to receive accolades in the 21st ...

The Little Red Schoolhouse may need a new nickname. The humble-sounding moniker may have been appropriate for a fledgling program with only a couple of cramped classrooms, two tiny offices and one ...

Chicago in the News The Chronicle’s biweekly column Chicago In the News offers a digest of commentary and quotations by a few of the University faculty members, students and alumni who have been ...

Since 1989, Robert Kottwitz has been helping Chicago graduate students in Mathematics to find strength in numbers. Now he has been rewarded with a 2001 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate ...

Stephen Harvey pauses for a photo during one of his trips to Abydos. A watercolor rendition of a fragment of limestone, which shows a band of sky with stars, was found at the top of a wall from the ...

Jay Berwanger, football star at the University and first winner of the Heisman Trophy, died Wednesday, June 26, of lung cancer. He was 88 years old. To football aficionados, Berwanger is well known as ...

Persistence pays, contends economist James Heckman, as do other non-cognitive skills—for both the individual and society. Like persistence, dependability and other under-studied traits probably play ...

Stone writes Fred Korematsu’s amicus brief, as history repeats By Peter Schuler News Office In a “friend-of-the-court” brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Friday, Oct. 3, Geoffrey Stone wrote, ...

During the Cultural Revolution in China, which lasted a decade (1966 to 1976), artists and intellectuals experienced a level of oppression that is difficult, even now, to comprehend. In an attempt to ...