University of Chicago News

Each week, we offer an email Q&A with a local personality. Today, Paul Wood chats with 54-year-old Champaign resident Barbara McFadden Allen, the executive director of the academic consortium of Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago.

Tomorrow night, the University of Chicago's Doc Films will screen the Joseph H. Lewis noir Gun Crazy , one of the major works of classic B cinema and one of the most radical and thoroughly entertaining movies in American film history, period.

A collection of ancient Iranian artifacts, which had been recovered in foreign auctions, was showcased on Thursday in an exhibition at the National Museum of Iran.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that President Obama has narrowed his list of possible replacements for FBI Director Robert Mueller to two candidates.

"All movements go too far." Few writers are more quotable than Bertrand Russell, in or out of context, and few have a more colorful background.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota has gone from being one of the U.S. central bank's more hawkish characters to arguably its most dovish.

If you want to get a sense of how college students approach sex, the play Speak About It is a pretty good place to start.

If you want to get in beach body shape for summer, don't spare a sagging mattress, especially if you're losing sleep over it.

Mumbai, May 15 : The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in collaboration with the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association is all set to host Chicago Conversations, here on Jun 10 to assess the current condition and take a view of private equity in India.

Every year the programmers at WHPK , University of Chicago's community radio station, organize the Summer Breeze fest and manage to pack it full of amazing, oddball rock and punk acts.

The "Canadian" part was due to astute planning by her father, Karl Abeles. Marianne was born in Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, in 1923.

"When you're talking about praising specific behavior, you're talking about reinforcing positive behavior, which we all know works on kids and it works on us too, as adults," said Seanna Crosbie, with the Austin Child Guidance Center, which serves more than 3,200 kids and families each year.

The distortion of the ancient shoreline and flooding surface of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain are the direct result of fluctuations in topography in the region and could have implications on understanding long-term climate change, according to a new study.

A well-known firearms researcher punched a pinhole in what may be one of the biggest myths being propagated by the gun prohibition lobby and repeated by the mainstream press this week when he noted today that the news media "ignore their own reports" that show gun ownership is increasing.

About 2.4 million new students will enter colleges and universities over the next decade, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

It's time to turn off the burner and join Julia Moskin of The Times and Norman King, the author of "The Way to Fry," to talk about fried chicken, and frying in general.

Women who have come out on top in the job market may not find similar success in the marriage market.

The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.

Annual Conference at www.alaannual.org or can be added to a previously completed conference registration by logging in at http://ala13.ala.org/register-now . The evening will include a cocktail reception, with docents from the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust available on site to answer questions.

Hayley Hopkins and Hardika Dhir are Dunwoody High School 's valedictorians this year, and William Koval is the salutatorian, the DeKalb county school district announced Tuesday.