SSA graduate, Law School student die in tragic North Side porch collapse Julie Sorkin, a 2003 graduate of the School of Social Service Administration, and Henry “Jay” Wischerath Jr., who had just ...

A $25 million gift from alumni Joe and Rika Mansueto will support construction of a new library at the University. Renowned Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn designed the Joe and Rika Mansueto ...

Alumni Association honors membership The Alumni Medal Created in 1941, the Alumni Medal is awarded to recognize achievement of an exceptional nature in any field, vocational or voluntary, covering an ...

Jay Berwanger, football star at the University and first winner of the Heisman Trophy, died Wednesday, June 26, of lung cancer. He was 88 years old. To football aficionados, Berwanger is well known as ...

Survey on physicians’ religious beliefs shows majority faithful By John Easton Medical Center Public Affairs The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe ...

Woodward discovers babies develop reasoning skills as early as 5 months By William Harms News Office New research by Amanda Woodward, Assistant Professor in Psychology, shows that babies begin to ...

Oriental Institute offers free access to volumes of history By William Harms [email protected] News Office A wealth of material that documents the ancient Middle East has become available through a ...

Crown family provides support for University s sustainability solutions By Steve Koppes [email protected] News Office The University has developed an energy consumption reduction program with the ...

What started as a non-profit organization and student club, organized by two habitual volunteers, quickly evolved into a for-credit course and eventually expanded its reach from a North Side campus to ...

Two mathematicians garner fellowships By Steve Koppes [email protected] News Office Mathematicians at the University have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and ...

Daniel S. Katz has joined the Computation Institute as a senior computational researcher and high-performance computing/grid consultant. His appointment was effective Monday, April 27. In announcing ...

Photos by Lloyd DeGrane Xinan Yang (in foreground), a postdoc in Biology, tills the soil in a vacant lot across the street from Emmett Till Elementary School on the South Side of the city. Volunteers ...