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    <description>The latest news from UChicago Research</description>
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    <dc:date>2013-06-05T19:01:56+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Researchers find genetic variant that could improve drug dosing in African Americans</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/06/05/researchers-find-genetic-variant-could-improve-drug-dosing-african-americans</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A multi-institutional team of researchers has identified a common genetic variation that can help physicians estimate the correct dose of the widely used blood-thinning drug warfarin, the first genome-wide association study to focus on warfarin dose requirement in African Americans.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-05T19:01+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Spintronics approach enables new quantum technologies</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/06/04/spintronics-approach-enables-new-quantum-technologies</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers, including members of the University of Chicago’s <a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fmolecularengineering.uchicago.edu%2F">Institute for Molecular Engineering</a>, highlight the power of emerging quantum technologies in two recent papers published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em>. These technologies exploit quantum mechanics, the physics that dominates the atomic world, to perform disparate tasks such as nanoscale temperature measurement and processing quantum information with lasers.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-04T19:03+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Meeting online leads to happier, more enduring marriages</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/06/03/meeting-online-leads-happier-more-enduring-marriages</link>
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<description><![CDATA[More than a third of marriages between 2005 and 2012 began online, according to new research at the University of Chicago, which also found that online couples have happier, longer marriages.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-03T19:05+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Genetic mutations more common among African American women with breast cancer</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/06/03/genetic-mutations-more-common-among-african-american-women-breast-cancer</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A high percentage of African American women with breast cancer who were evaluated at a university cancer-risk clinic were found to carry inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast cancer.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-03T19:04+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>When doctors and patients share in decisions, hospital costs go up</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/29/when-doctors-and-patients-share-decisions-hospital-costs-go</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Since the 1980s, doctors and patients have been encouraged to share decision-making. Proponents argue that this approach promotes doctor-patient communication, enhances patient satisfaction, improves health outcomes and even may lower cost.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-29T19:07+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chicago Harris names Brett Goldstein inaugural Fellow in Urban Science</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/29/chicago-harris-names-brett-goldstein-inaugural-fellow-urban-science</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Brett Goldstein, Chief Data and Information Officer for the City of Chicago, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Fellowship in Urban Science at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He will begin the two-year fellowship on July 1, 2013.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-29T19:06+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Women donate less to charity than men in some contexts</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/24/women-donate-less-charity-men-some-contexts</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Given the chance, women are more likely than men to opt out of a request to give a charitable donation, a group of economists have found.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-24T18:05+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Multiple research teams unable to confirm high&#45;profile Alzheimer’s study</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/23/multiple-research-teams-unable-confirm-high-profile-alzheimer-s-study</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Teams of highly respected Alzheimer’s researchers failed to replicate what appeared to be breakthrough results for the treatment of this brain disease when they were published last year in the journal <em>Science</em>.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-23T18:09+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Amit Seru honored for research on mortgage&#45;backed securities market</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/22/amit-seru-honored-research-mortgage-backed-securities-market</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Amit Seru, an associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has been named a co-recipient of the 2013 AQR Insight Award. It honors his research on how to identify and quantify misreported loans in the $2 trillion market for private mortgage-backed securities. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-22T18:11+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Veronica Guerrieri named top Italian economist younger than 40</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/21/veronica-guerrieri-named-top-italian-economist-younger-40</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagobooth.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fdirectory%2Fg%2Fveronica-guerrieri">Prof. Veronica Guerrieri</a>, who studies labor markets and financial market frictions at Chicago Booth, has received the Carlo Alberto Medal, given every two years to the top Italian economist younger than 40.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-21T18:12+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>New PhD program in molecular engineering marks historic first for UChicago</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/14/new-phd-program-molecular-engineering-marks-historic-first-uchicago</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of Chicago will offer an engineering PhD for the first time, emphasizing the development of solutions to technological problems of society based on molecular-level science.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-14T17:10+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>UChicago to evaluate effects of increased math tutoring in Chicago Public Schools</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/14/uchicago-evaluate-effects-increased-math-tutoring-chicago-public-schools</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Up to 1,000 adolescent boys in 12 Chicago Public Schools will receive individualized, daily math tutoring in their regular school day beginning next fall, as part of a new UChicago-supported program designed to boost school performance and reduce violent crimes.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-14T17:08+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>David Axelrod appointed distinguished senior fellow at Chicago Harris</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/13/david-axelrod-appointed-distinguished-senior-fellow-chicago-harris</link>
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<description><![CDATA[As the University of Chicago Institute of Politics builds upon an eventful first year of discussions and programming, Director David Axelrod has been appointed a distinguished senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-13T17:10+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Two faculty members receive Guggenheim Fellowships</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/10/two-faculty-members-receive-guggenheim-fellowships</link>
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<description><![CDATA[This year, two faculty members at the University of Chicago have received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships: Philip V. Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music, the Humanities, and the College, and Jennifer Cole, Professor of Comparative Human Development.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-10T17:11+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chuan He named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/09/chuan-he-named-howard-hughes-medical-institute-investigator</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Howard Hughes Medical Institute on May 9 announced the selection of Chuan He, professor in chemistry and the current director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago, as a new HHMI investigator.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-09T17:13+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chicago Harris launches Center on Policy Entrepreneurship</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/08/chicago-harris-launches-center-policy-entrepreneurship</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy has created the Center on Policy Entrepreneurship, a unique initiative focusing on the politics of the policymaking process.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-08T19:43+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>New dark matter detector begins search for invisible particles</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/07/new-dark-matter-detector-begins-search-invisible-particles</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists heard their first pops last week in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-07T19:44+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Graduate students to present arts&#45;science collaboration projects on May 8</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/03/graduate-students-present-arts-science-collaboration-projects-may-8</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Recipients of the University of Chicago’s 2013 Arts | Science Graduate Collaboration Grants will present the fruits of their projects from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, in the penthouse of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. The event is free and open to the public and a reception will follow.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-03T19:45+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>UChicago gains five new members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/02/uchicago-gains-five-new-members-american-academy-arts-and-sciences</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Four scholars and one distinguished trustee from the University of Chicago have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-02T19:46+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Gregory Lawler elected to National Academy of Sciences</title>
<link>http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/04/30/gregory-lawler-elected-national-academy-sciences</link>
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<description><![CDATA[UChicago mathematician Gregory Lawler has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-30T19:47+00:00</dc:date>
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