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Stephen Raudenbush elected to National Academy of Sciences

Stephen W. Raudenbush, chair of the Committee on Education, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.Raudenbush, the Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology and the...

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Martha Nussbaum honored with Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Philosophy Department and Divinity School, has received the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for...

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Chicago Harris students vote for Sallee and Worthington to receive teaching...

Faculty members Jim Sallee and Paula Worthington have won the 2012 Harris School teaching awards. Sallee was named Best Teacher in a Core Course, and Worthington was named Best Teacher in a Non-Core...

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Graduating students honor Prof. Saul Levmore, dean of admissions Ann Perry

Students describe Prof. Saul Levmore as inquisitive, charismatic, confident, engaging and downright funny, with a bit of an edge that keeps them on their toes.They describe dean of admissions Ann K....

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UChicago faculty members honored for graduate-level teaching in the...

University of Chicago Booth School of Business awardsSanjay Dhar, the James H. Lorie Professor of Marketing, Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award, Executive MBA Program North AmericaHaresh...

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College students use undergrad NSF grant to study migration in France

The National Science Foundation has awarded two University of Chicago undergraduate students with summer research grants in France, where they are studying different aspects of France’s large and...

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Bernard Harcourt elected to ranks of leading French research institution

Prof. Bernard Harcourt has been elected to a chair at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and will become a permanent visitor at the research institution. Harcourt, who is the...

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Faculty members honored for excellence in graduate-level teaching

The UChicago professional schools have announced honors for graduate-level teaching for the 2012–13 school year. Click on the schools below for stories on the award winners.University of Chicago Booth...

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Chicago Harris students honor outstanding teachers

"The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching," Aristotle wrote. Students at the Harris School Of Public Policy regard this maxim each year when they vote for the best...

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Law graduates honor Prof. Saul Levmore with teaching award

Note: Prof. Saul Levmore won the Law School's Teaching Award in 2012 and again in 2013. The story below is adapted from a profile published last year.Students describe Prof. Saul Levmore as...

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Alumni Award winners span varied careers and achievements, from economics to...

Nobel Prize–winning economist Gary Becker will receive the Alumni Medal, the highest honor the Alumni Association can bestow, while 16 other distinguished alumni will receive awards in a ceremony at...

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Two UChicago students awarded Marshall Scholarships

Two University of Chicago students have been awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarships for graduate study in the United Kingdom. The recipients are Matthew Jones, a biological sciences and Germanic...

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Ariel Kalil awarded MacArthur Foundation grant

Ariel Kalil, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, has been awarded a $200,000 research grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to...

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Law scholar Richard Epstein receives 2011 Bradley Prize

Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, has been awarded the 2011 Bradley Prize for...

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Four UChicago scholars receive Guggenheim fellowships

Four UChicago scholars—Alison Bechdel, John H. Cochrane, Adrian Johns, and Don Kulick—have been named 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows. They are among 181 diverse scholars,...

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Jean Decety Receives International Neuropsychology Prize

Professor Jean Decety has been awarded the 2013 J.-L. Signoret Neuropsychology Prize awarded by the Fondation IPSEN in Paris. The international prize recognizes Decety’s scholarship on new...

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Two University of Chicago faculty members win India’s prestigious Padma...

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, and Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, will each receive the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award,...

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Crime Lab receives $1 million MacArthur Foundation award in recognition of...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab is one of seven nonprofit organizations around the world to receive a $1 million award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in support of nonprofit...

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Jurist Mikva, arts leader Lee to receive Benton, Rosenberger medals

The University will award the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service to jurist and public servant Abner Mikva, JD’51, and the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to choral director and arts leader...

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Three UChicago alumni to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Three UChicago alumni—a physicist called the “queen of carbon science,” a former congresswoman who championed Title IX, and a former congressman and jurist—are among the 19 people named Nov. 10 as...

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Two students win grants from Davis Projects for Peace

Two UChicago students have won $10,000 grants from Davis Projects for Peace, an initiative that encourages students to design and implement grassroots summer projects that promote peace and address the...

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Third-year Samuel Boland wins prestigious Truman Scholarship

Third-year Samuel Boland has won a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a nationally competitive award that supports exceptional students pursuing careers in public service. Boland is one of 58 undergraduates...

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Professor Martha Nussbaum receives Inamori Ethics Prize for ‘exemplary...

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, has been awarded the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at...

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