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University of Chicago Applications Hit Record High
Undergraduate applications to the University of Chicago are up 42 percent over last year, making the pool of applicants the largest in the school's history. The U of C received 19,306 applications for the class entering in the fall of 2010, a 42 percent increase from last year's 13,564 app...
Sat, Jan 16 | from Chicagoist
Ben Hecht— A brash poet of Chicago's underbelly
Hecht was a reporter, a newspaper man in America's hottest crime city during American journalism's golden age." So begins Richard Rayner's review of the University of Chicago Press's republication of Ben Hecht's writing for the Chicago Daily News in A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chi...
Mon, Dec 14 | from The Chicago
EXCLUSIVE: A New Christmas Story from Barry Gifford
Picture, if you will, a vanished Chicago. The stockyards are still open. Richard J. is in City Hall. And a fresh wave of Croatian immigrants is settling into the fabric of the city; Edward "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak, the son of Croatian saloonkeepers from the Southeast Side, is attending the Unive...
Sun, Dec 13 | from Chicagoist
Good visual art everywhere in 2009
Further afield, we were pleasantly surprised by the fall show at the Renaissance Society on the University of Chicago campus: Allan Sekula's "Polonia and ...
Fri, Dec 11 | from Chicago Tribune
Student Held in Killing of Binghamton Professor
College News He had taught at the University of Chicago, Manchester University in England and Cairo University, according to his curriculum vitae. ... Fatally Stabbed BU Professor Was Fulbright Scholar and Accomplished AuthorWBNG-TV all 302 news articles »
Sat, Dec 5 | from New York Times
Opinion: “Wannabe U” Builds Prestige
Universities, with their verdant quads and hallowed halls of learning, are celebrated as bastions of ideas and academic freedoms. But more and more often, universities are being operated not as secular temples of education but as corporate business. Gaye Tuchman's exposé of the modern...
Wed, Oct 7 | from The Chicago
Ralley emerges as Petoskey's top city manager candidate
MI His educational background includes a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago as well as a master's in public administration and a law degree from Syracuse University. During his interview Saturday, Ralley said he pursued ...
Sun, Jun 14 | from Petoskey News-Review
How To: Thailand Wage rate across Regions. MIT Chicago TSpower Advanced Tutorial 1
Author: TSpowerGuide Keywords: MIT University of Chicago Economics Thailand Developing Economices Development Economics Townsend Tspower Wage Rate Wage Added: March 11, 2009
Wed, Mar 11 | from YouTube
Opinion: Interview: The Galloping Ghost's Gary Andrew Poole
GP: Yeah, definitely. Football really started as an East Coast game but there were significant teams in the Midwest and it definitely became less of an elitist sport because of the rise of football in the Midwest, particularly in Chicago and the rural areas of Illinois and Ohio and other pl...
Fri, Jan 30 | from Chicagoist
Podcast: Student Blogger - Chicago???s Best Ideas: Dean Saul Levmore on ???The Internet???s Anonymity Problem???
Levmore illustrated the problem with the website Juicy Campus, which I will not link to; obviously, many similar websites exist. The website categorizes gossip message boards by school: one for UCLA, one for Tennessee Tech, one for University of Chicago (which is rather sparse), and so...
Sat, Nov 22 | from The University of Chicago Law School Faculty
Opinion: Obama's Constitution
Long tradition of American political thought--states owe to every citizen a degree of subsistence. Second Bill of Rights made possible by attack on distinction between negative and positive rights. Effort to separate them is unfit for the American legal framework.
Tue, Oct 28 | from Power Line
Opinion: A lost magazine from an elegant era
Now, as Julia Keller notes in a recent review for the Chicago Tribune, "thanks to the archival detective work of Neil Harris, emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, we can glide our way back to an era when elegance mattered—not only in dress and deportment, but also in sentence a...
Mon, Oct 27 | from The Chicago
Chicago Audio Works Podcast: Episode 3
Chicago Audio Works is produced by Chris Gondek of Heron & Crane and the Invisible Hand. This and previous episodes of Chicago Audio Works are also available from iTunes and other digital media aggregators. See all audio and video available from the University of Chicago Press.
Thu, Oct 23 | from The Chicago
How To: Google Earth with Lucy Gray
Lucy Grey, from University of Chicago, is leading the session. We’re starting with a look at Google Maps and how to use the search feature to make your own customized maps. Using the Sears Tower in Chicago, we’re looking at the street ...
Sat, Jun 28 | from BlogWalker
Podcast: Grant Achatz Wins 2008 James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Award
Grant Achatz: Alinea Restaurant (Chicago) Chicago’s Acclaimed Alinea Restaurant Chicago’s Grant Achatz Wins The James Beard Foundations’ Best Chef Award Achatz Describes His Battle with Cancer in December The 2007 James Beard Foundation Awards
Mon, Jun 9 | from disembedded (WordPress)
College apps jump by record numbers
Applications to the College rose nearly 20 percent this year, resulting in the largest applicant pool in the history of the University. The College received 12,381 applications for the 2008–2009 year, up from 10,334 applicants last year, said Michael Behnke, vice president and dean of...
Mon, Jan 28 | from Chicago Maroon
