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Research News 2012

New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code
05.17.12

Mystery Gene Reveals New Mechanism for Anxiety Disorders
05.15.12

Argonne, Universities partner to design advanced materials
05.14.12

Ice slurry research pays off for a cleaner environment
05.13.12

Stephen Raudenbush elected to National Academy of Sciences
05.08.12

UChicago scientists collect plethora of awards
05.07.12

Beehive extract shows potential as prostate cancer treatment
05.04.12

Mario Small appointed next dean of Social Sciences Division
05.01.12

Thinking in a foreign language helps economic decision-making
04.25.2012

Guidelines for prostate screening widely ignored
04.24.2012

Belief in God rises with age, even in atheist nations
04.18.2012

Eight UChicago faculty members named American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows
04.17.2012

Research charts path to sustainable cities
04.16.2012

Clinical trial measures impact of food on anti-cancer drug effects
04.13.2012

Chicago Booth, Nielsen collaborate on consumer research initiative
04.12.2012

Social stress changes immune system gene expression in primates
04.09.2012

Deaf children’s gesture mismatches provide clues to learning moments
04.05.2012

Antipsychotic drug may be helpful treatment for anorexia nervosa
04.04.2012

South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos
04.02.2012

Organics probably formed easily in early solar system
03.30.2012

Images capture split personality of dense suspensions
03.30.2012

Novel breast cancer therapy shows promise
03.22.2012

What we don't talk about when we don't talk about sex
03.22.2012

Study: Academic program helps more Chicago students attend, stay in college
03.22.2012

Evidence mounts for link between opioids and cancer growth
03.21.2012

A new take on the games people play in their relationships
03.21.2012

New Frontiers in Astronomy, Cosmology
03.19.2012

Ultracold experiments heat up quantum research
03.16.2012

UChicago receives gift to study economic, policy impacts of oil and alternative fuels
03.15.2012

Personal mobile computing increases doctors' efficiency
03.12.2012

Solving the puzzle of early learning
03.12.2012

Gravitational lens reveals details of distant, ancient galaxy
03.08.2012

Prof. John List recruits researchers to teach south suburban eighth-graders about economics
03.07.2012

Quirky physics brown bag series prizes unusual questions
03.07.2012

Bacterial frontier could yield future cures
03.07.2012

2011 UChicago sponsored research funding still robust despite Recovery Act Funding decreases
03.01.2012

Energy network within cells may be new target for cancer therapy
02.23.2012

Mathematician sees artistic side to father of computer
02.23.2012

A classic model for ecological stability revised, 40 years later
02.19.2012

Puzzle play helps boost learning of important math-related skills
02.15.2012

Leading the quest to crack cosmological mysteries
02.15.2012

Smoking cessation aide shows promise as alcoholism treatment
02.14.2012

Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions
02.13.2012

Making renewable energy feasible
02.10.2012

Three new members join Argonne Board of Governors
02.06.2012

90th Percentile Has Twice the Productivity of 10th Percentile
02.06.2012

Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis
02.06.2012

Odds of living a very long life lower than formerly predicted
02.06.2012

Lung transplant system often skips over those most in need
01.31.2012

Study finds lure of entertainment, work hard for people to resist
01.27.2012

New center developing computational bioresearch tool
01.27.2012

Janet Rowley to receive Japan Prize for role in development of targeted cancer therapy
01.25.2012

Urban Education Institute partnership to create model for early childhood, K-12 education
01.23.2012

A new approach to migraine therapy
01.23.2012

Study: Communicating health risk is a risky task for FDA
01.19.2012

New collaboration to benefit women faculty in STEM
01.17.2012

Neural balls and strikes: where categories live in the brain
01.16.2012

Chicago Booth’s Raghuram Rajan and Axel Weber appointed to G30
01.13.2012

Urban Education Lab to study effects of CPS’ new full school day initiative
01.12.2012

Chicago Innovation Mentors celebrates first year
01.04.2012

For those with diabetes, controlling blood pressure is crucial, but not urgent
01.09.2012

Two Chicago Booth professors win Kauffman Prize for entrepreneurship research
01.09.2012

Douglas Diamond wins Morgan Stanley-AFA award for financial economics research
01.09.2012

Scientists use ‘molecular time travel’ to recreate evolution of complexity
01.08.2012

Project Exploration founder Gabrielle Lyon named 2011 'Chicagoan of the Year'
01.05.2012

Experts urge BMI method for calculating weight in kids with eating disorders
01.04.2012

Research News 2011

Physicians Named Among Chicago's 'Best of the Best'
12.29.2011

Science awards go to UChicago physics professor, alumnus
12.29.2011

Shearing triggers odd behavior in microscopic particles
12.22.2011

Building on University of Chicago connections
12.22.2011

UChicago chemist helps craft message for world leaders
12.21.2011

Clinical Scholars Program delves into physician spirituality
12.19.2011

Computer Programming team advances to World Finals
12.16.2011

South Pole centennial history includes UChicago telescopes
12.14.2011

Quantitative Insights gaining ground
12.06.2011

Language may be dominant social marker for young children
12.01.2011

Rosenfield gift to foster studies drawing on economics, policy and law
11.28.2011

Principals can be reliable sources of teacher evaluations, consortium study finds
11.16.2011

First MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics awarded to Dartmouth's John Wennberg
11.16.2011

Members of Chemistry faculty collect more honors for their research
11.15.2011

Roger Myerson honored at economics conference in Marseille, France
11.15.2011

History of Science Society honors Robert Richards with its highest honor, Sarton Medal
11.15.2011

UChicago docs develop content for new Web app for physicians
11.11.2011

Learning spatial terms improves children's spatial skills
11.09.2011

Law School's Exoneration Project helps free wrongly convicted man
11.04.2011

Fat cells in abdomen fuel spread of ovarian cancer
11.04.2011

Black and white American voters live in one country, but two different worlds
11.04.2011

Joint Palestinian-American dig near Jericho yields clues about early Islamic culture
10.28.2011

Collaborative grants aid scientific and medical advancements
09.12.2011

Anonymous gifts support new professorships in Institute for Molecular Engineering
08.10.2011

A change in perspective could be all it takes to succeed in school
08.09.2011

Japan tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica, research finds
08.08.2011

When a man's partner is too close to his friends, his sex life may suffer
08.08.2011

Money isn't everything for well-being, study finds
08.03.2011

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary hits 100,000 downloads
08.01.2011

Project to use prison research in studying neural basis of psychopathy
08.01.2011

Argonne’s top performers recognized
07.14.2011

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