Research News
2013
July
- Combining computer science, statistics creates machines that can learn
- Chicago Booth to expand footprint in Asia
- Bernard Harcourt elected to ranks of leading French research institution
- Cosmochemist discovers potential solution to meteorite mystery
- Cloud modeling expands estimate of life-supporting planets
June
- University and national laboratory leaders gather to discuss ‘Big Science’
- Research project to test innovative ways of improving math teaching
- Giving children non-verbal clues about words boosts vocabularies
- Israel-Chicago partnership targets water resource innovations
- Nigel Lockyer of Canada’s TRIUMF lab named Fermilab director
- Fat cells in breast may connect social stress to breast cancer
- University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory agree to form affiliation
- Perfect pitch may not be absolute after all
- Anonymous gift of $3.5 million to support Leo Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics
- Evolutionary study shows bridge species drive tropical engine of biodiversity
- Researchers find genetic variant that could improve drug dosing in African Americans
- Spintronics approach enables new quantum technologies
- Meeting online leads to happier, more enduring marriages
- Genetic mutations more common among African American women with breast cancer
May
- When doctors and patients share in decisions, hospital costs go up
- Chicago Harris names Brett Goldstein inaugural Fellow in Urban Science
- Women donate less to charity than men in some contexts
- Multiple research teams unable to confirm high-profile Alzheimer’s study
- Amit Seru honored for research on mortgage-backed securities market
- Veronica Guerrieri named top Italian economist younger than 40
- New PhD program in molecular engineering marks historic first for UChicago
- UChicago to evaluate effects of increased math tutoring in Chicago Public Schools
- David Axelrod appointed distinguished senior fellow at Chicago Harris
- Two faculty members receive Guggenheim Fellowships
- Chuan He named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
- Chicago Harris launches Center on Policy Entrepreneurship
- New dark matter detector begins search for invisible particles
- Graduate students to present arts-science collaboration projects on May 8
- UChicago gains five new members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April
- Gregory Lawler elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Series of research conferences on urban issues to begin April 25
- Psychopaths are not neurally equipped to have concern for others
- Design principles of quantum biology could open path to new solar technology
- CPS students infrequently use technology for school, study finds
- Janet Rowley shares prestigious medical prize with cancer treatment pioneers
- Rayid Ghani, Obama campaign chief data scientist, joins UChicago
- Gifts to boost University of Chicago as hub for biomedical ‘big data’
- Rocky Kolb appointed next dean of Division of the Physical Sciences
- Michael S. Turner to address ‘Quarks and the Cosmos’ in April 17 Ryerson Lecture
- Oriental Institute exhibit, seminar to examine 2003 looting of Iraqi antiquities
- Chemist Bozhi Tian selected as 2013 Searle Scholar
March
- Childhood asthma tied to combination of genes and wheezing illness
- Prescription for double-dose algebra proves effective
- Sleep consolidates memories for competing tasks
- International technology partnership to focus on water problems
- ‘Nuisance’ data lead to surprising star-birth discovery
- Watery research theme to flow through new Tokmakoff lab
- Space station to host new cosmic ray telescope
- Faculty members recognized for outstanding research with new professorships
- Neubauer Collegium selects inaugural research projects
- Vortex loops could untie knotty physics problems
February
- Songbirds’ brains coordinate singing with intricate timing, study shows
- CCSR report examines effects of closing low-performing Chicago schools
- University’s sponsored research funding increases 6 percent in 2012
- Computational center will study the past and future of knowledge
- Global surveys show environment ranks low on public concerns
- Immigration among Latin American countries fails to improve income
- Humans and chimps share genetic strategy in battle against pathogens
- Higgs boson discussion launches UChicago Discovery Series
- Parents who praise effort can bolster children’s persistence, self-belief
- City cites Crime Lab data in funding innovative youth program
- Sandors make major gift to Law School; Coase-Sandor Institute named to honor mentor
January
- Greg Voth to receive American Chemical Society’s theoretical chemistry award
- Disasters prompt older children to be more giving, younger children to be more selfish
- John Edwardson gives $5 million to University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- UEI’s 5Es Survey adopted for statewide assessment of school performance
- Children’s complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school
- Norman Lebovitz elected fellow of American Physical Society
- UChicago engages in national gun policy discussion
- UChicago engages in national gun policy discussion
- Alexander Razborov receives 2013 Robbins Prize from American Mathematical Society
- Chicago high school students find new ‘classroom’ at O.I. dig in Israel
- Divinity School lecture to explore violence in Islamic history
- MacArthur Foundation grant fuels computational city research
- Gov. Quinn joins officials to mark completion of Center for Care and Discovery
- New book connects the human community to its cosmic roots
- Institute of Politics to host leaders for panel on gun violence
- Molecular scientists reveal extraordinary properties of ordinary glasses
- For very stable glass, pack molecules like Tetris
2012
December
- Larry Norman earns honor from Modern Language Association
- Exploding star missing from formation of solar system
- New computational center will use data-driven techniques to inform urban policy
- Paleontologist chalks up another Schuchert Award for UChicago
- Graeme Bell receives international diabetes prize
- Four on faculty elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
- University of Chicago receives $4.8 million grant to study philanthropy
- Next scientific fashion could be designer nanocrystals
- Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship expands venture creation across UChicago
November
- Axelrod reflects on election and career at Institute of Politics event
- National labs, UChicago scientists and scholars engage in ‘Playing with Time’
- Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional, brain study shows
- Public invited to Dec. 8 open house at Center for Care and Discovery
- Science film series to launch with ‘A Beautiful Mind’ screening, discussion
- Advocate for women in STEM disciplines speaks on today’s barriers to ‘breaking into the lab’
- MicroRNAs can convert normal cells into cancer promoters
- Public Invited to See University of Chicago Medicine’s ‘Hospital of the Future’
- David Axelrod to reflect upon election at Nov. 26 Institute of Politics event
- Failed explosions explain most peculiar supernovae
- New Research Computing Center provides access to hardware and expertise
- Q&A: Assoc. Prof. Christopher Berry discusses rise of women in Congress
- Women eager to negotiate salaries, when given the opportunity
- First class of American Mathematical Society fellows includes 20 from UChicago
- Physicist William Irvine receives Packard Fellowship
- Partisanship shapes beliefs about political and non-political issues, NORC survey finds
- Of Microbes and Men
October
- When people worry about math, the brain feels the pain
- Animals learn to fine-tune their sniffs
- Ancient ecosystem’s vulnerability to catastrophe contributed to dinosaur extinction
- For presidential candidates, image may trump debate issues
- Even your fat cells need sleep, according to new research
- Book and Humanities Day lecture trace history of Japan’s postwar period through popular music
- Jens Ludwig elected to prestigious Institute of Medicine for research on social determinants of heal
- First Institute of Politics event of the year debuts to a packed house
- Synthetic universes: How simulations will help search for dark energy
- 2012 Brinson Lecture to explore exoplanets under planetarium dome
- Move to less impoverished neighborhoods boosts physical and mental health
- World’s most powerful digital camera begins hunt for dark energy
- Chicago Demotic Dictionary refines knowledge of influential language
- Divorce can hit children under age five especially hard
- Sharon Feng appointed executive director of Institute for Molecular Engineering
- Poorest miss out on benefits, experience more material hardship since 1996 welfare reform
September
- Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade
- More grandparents fill caregiver role
- Study points to new target for cancers resistant to certain drugs
- First stars, galaxies formed more rapidly than expected
August
- Manipulating the microbiome could help manage weight
- Ian Foster appointed to third term as director of Computation Institute
- Nancy Kawalek appointed distinguished fellow in arts, sciences, technology
- New study finds consumption measures poverty better than income
- UChicago Awards $375,000 to Fermilab-University collaborators
- Giant galaxy cluster sets record pace for creating stars
- Diabetes Initiative Taps Power of Rx Pad to Drive Healthy Food Choices
- Diabetes Initiative Taps Power of Rx Pad to Drive Healthy Food Choices
- Giant galaxy cluster sets record pace for creating stars
- Antisense approach promising for treatment of parasitic infections
- Ando receives research award from Germany’s Humboldt Foundation
- University spinoff puts research results into practice
- Student performance improves when teachers given incentives upfront
- Physics initiative launches with hiring of Dam Thanh Son
- College students use undergrad NSF grant to study migration in France
- Grapefruit juice lets patients take lower dose of cancer drug
- Donald Liu, pediatric surgeon, 1962-2012
- Pier Oddone to retire as Fermilab director
- Stephan Meyer earns part of another Gruber Prize
July
- New book explores fears about Muslims in the West
- Daley shows students the many roads to public service
- University of Chicago to boost transformative medical research with $23 million grant
- UChicago law students win Supreme Court prediction contest
- Kevin Corlette to direct UChicago Financial Math Program
- Study: Chicago counseling program reduces youth violence, improves school engagement
- Physicists’ search for Higgs boson reveals new particle with very large mass
- UChicago team contributing to search for Higgs boson
- Tevatron scientists announce their final Higgs particle results
- New method knocks out stubborn electron problem
- Mass extinctions reset the long-term pace of evolution
- Law School scholars discuss high court’s landmark healthcare decision
June
- Survey finds youth use new media for peer-based participatory politics
- Landmark initiative reimagines humanistic inquiry
- Good CARMA contributes to detection of rare gravitational phenomenon
- Immediate rewards for good scores can boost student performance
- Scientists achieve milestone against deadly diseases
- Early grasp of fractions, long division predicts high school math achievement
May
- Images capture split personality of dense suspensions
- New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code
- Mystery Gene Reveals New Mechanism for Anxiety Disorders
- Argonne, Universities partner to design advanced materials
- Argonne, Universities partner to design advanced materials
- Ice slurry research pays off for a cleaner environment
- Stephen Raudenbush elected to National Academy of Sciences
- UChicago scientists collect plethora of awards
- Beehive extract shows potential as prostate cancer treatment
- Mario Small appointed next dean of Social Sciences Division
April
- Thinking in a foreign language helps economic decision-making
- Guidelines for prostate screening widely ignored
- Belief in God rises with age, even in atheist nations
- Eight UChicago faculty members named American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows
- Clinical trial measures impact of food on anti-cancer drug effects
- Chicago Booth, Nielsen collaborate on consumer research initiative
- Social stress changes immune system gene expression in primates
- Deaf children’s gesture mismatches provide clues to learning moments
- Antipsychotic drug may be helpful treatment for anorexia nervosa
- South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos
March
- Organics probably formed easily in early solar system
- Study: Academic program helps more Chicago students attend, stay in college
- What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about sex
- Novel breast cancer therapy shows promise
- Evidence mounts for link between opioids and cancer growth
- A new take on the games people play in their relationships
- New Frontiers in Astronomy, Cosmology
- Ultracold experiments heat up quantum research
- UChicago receives gift to study economic, policy impacts of oil and alternative fuels
- Personal mobile computing increases doctors’ efficiency
- Gravitational lens reveals details of distant, ancient galaxy
- Quirky physics brown bag series prizes unusual questions
- Prof. John List recruits researchers to teach south suburban eighth-graders about economics
February
- Mathematician sees artistic side to father of computer
- Energy network within cells may be new target for cancer therapy
- A classic model for ecological stability revised, 40 years later
- Puzzle play helps boost learning of important math-related skills
- Smoking cessation aide shows promise as alcoholism treatment
- Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions
- Making renewable energy feasible
- 90th Percentile Has Twice the Productivity of 10th Percentile
- Odds of living a very long life lower than formerly predicted
- Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis
- Three new members join Argonne Board of Governors
January
- Lung transplant system often skips over those most in need
- New center developing computational bioresearch tool
- Study finds lure of entertainment, work hard for people to resist
- Janet Rowley to receive Japan Prize for role in development of targeted cancer therapy
- A new approach to migraine therapy
- Urban Education Institute partnership to create model for early childhood, K-12 education
- Study: Communicating health risk is a risky task for FDA
- New collaboration to benefit women faculty in STEM
- Neural balls and strikes: where categories live in the brain
- Chicago Booth’s Raghuram Rajan and Axel Weber appointed to G30
- Urban Education Lab to study effects of CPS’ new full school day initiative
- Douglas Diamond wins Morgan Stanley-AFA award for financial economics research
- Two Chicago Booth professors win Kauffman Prize for entrepreneurship research
- For those with diabetes, controlling blood pressure is crucial, but not urgent
- Scientists use ‘molecular time travel’ to recreate evolution of complexity
- Project Exploration founder Gabrielle Lyon named 2011 ‘Chicagoan of the Year’
- Experts urge BMI method for calculating weight in kids with eating disorders
- Chicago Innovation Mentors celebrates first year
2011
December
- Science awards go to UChicago physics professor, alumnus
- Physicians Named Among Chicago’s ‘Best of the Best’
- Shearing triggers odd behavior in microscopic particles
- Building on University of Chicago connections
- UChicago chemist helps craft message for world leaders
- Clinical Scholars Program delves into physician spirituality
- Computer Programming team advances to World Finals
- South Pole centennial history includes UChicago telescopes
- Quantitative Insights gaining ground
- Language may be dominant social marker for young children
November
- Rosenfield gift to foster studies drawing on economics, policy and law
- Principals can be reliable sources of teacher evaluations, consortium study finds
- First MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics awarded to Dartmouth’s John Wennberg
- History of Science Society honors Robert Richards with its highest honor, Sarton Medal
- Roger Myerson honored at economics conference in Marseille, France
- Members of Chemistry faculty collect more honors for their research
- UChicago docs develop content for new Web app for physicians
- Learning spatial terms improves children’s spatial skills
- Law School’s Exoneration Project helps free wrongly convicted man
- Black and white American voters live in one country, but two different worlds
- Fat cells in abdomen fuel spread of ovarian cancer
October
- Joint Palestinian-American dig near Jericho yields clues about early Islamic culture
- Brain study reveals how successful students overcome math anxiety
- UChicago Awards $600,000 to Argonne-University collaborators
- Moving poor women to lower-poverty neighborhoods improves their health
- New research links common RNA modification to obesity
- University of Chicago Law School launches Law & Economics 2.0 initiative
- New data-mining effort launched to study mental disorders
- Exploring Knowledge about Knowledge
- Two seemingly unrelated phenomena share surprising link
September
- New Bucksbaum Institute fosters doctor-patient communication
- Smells may help birds identify their relatives
- Book traces long trail of global warming scholarship
- Innovation Fund advances test for cancer therapy
- Chicago Public Schools releases University-developed 5 Essentials School Reports
- A Final Smash For America’s Giant Particle Collider
August
- Anonymous gifts support new professorships in Institute for Molecular Engineering
- A change in perspective could be all it takes to succeed in school
- Japan tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica, research finds
- When a man’s partner is too close to his friends, his sex life may suffer
- Money isn’t everything for well-being, study finds
- Chicago Assyrian Dictionary hits 100,000 downloads
- Project to use prison research in studying neural basis of psychopathy
July
- Geophysical Sciences professors earn Macelwane Medal, Nier Prize
- Law School launches new environmental law clinic
- Two genetic variations predict second cancers after radiation treatment for children with Hodgkin’s
- College-educated, undocumented young adults may face same narrow range of jobs as parents
- Chicago Innovation Mentors receive $60,000 grant from Chicago Biomedical Consortium
- Two genetic variations predict second cancers after radiation treatment for children with Hodgkin ly
- Two faculty members, trustee emeritus elected to American Philosophical Society
- National survey names Medical Center as one of the best U.S. hospitals
- Fermilab-University investigators receive $225,000 in collaborative seed grants
- Lilly and Argonne announce $2 million upgrade to Lilly’s beamline capabilities
- Argonne’s top performers recognized
May
- Peter Littlewood named associate laboratory director at Argonne
- Developing the science of spatial learning
- From humanities to sciences, six faculty members receive named appointments
- Jean Comaroff to deliver annual Ryerson Lecture
- UChicago Press awards Robert Richards the Laing book prize
- Strong relationships make students and teachers feel safer in schools, study finds
- Terrorism research gains world’s attention
- Focusing on Reproductive Health
- Harris School economist: Refunds don’t always help lower-income taxpayers
- Neil Shubin, Pier Oddone elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Monsters of the Midway
- Insomnia linked to high insulin resistance in diabetics
- Work of paleoartist Tyler Keillor on exhibit until June 26
- New mothers can learn a lot from watching their babies
- The winners of mass extinction: With predators gone, prey thrive
- Political Science faculty members to celebrate published scholarship
- New software to support interest in extreme science
- Siberian hot springs reveal ancient ecology
- Language quest turns to the brain
- American Association for the Advancement of Science elects four UChicago fellows
- Freakonomics ideas flourish in the classroom
- From the beginning, the mind knows the difference between night and day
