The College received a record 12,368 applications for the 2008-2009 school year—a 20 percent increase from last year’s 10,334. “Clearly students like what they learn about us,” said Michael Behnke, ...

The University has appointed Robert Rosner to the directorship of Argonne National Laboratory effective Monday, April 18. His appointment was approved by Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. Rosner ...

Wayne Booth, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and one of the 20th century’s most prominent and influential literary critics, died at his ...

The University has appointed Hermann Grunder, an internationally recognized nuclear and accelerator physicist, as director of Argonne National Laboratory, effective Nov. 1. Grunder has been director ...

At their Wednesday, March 10 meeting, members of the University’s Board of Trustees approved a 5 percent increase in undergraduate tuition, room and board charges for the academic year 2004-2005.

The University has signed a participation letter with the new International Student Loan Program, which will provide loans requiring no co-signer to international students at the Chicago Booth School ...

During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance ...

Mathematicians at the University have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Mathematical Society. Wilhelm Schlag, Professor in Mathematics and the ...

This year’s recipients of the Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching are (clockwise from center) Katherine Turk, Chris Conidis, Robert Fong and Tom Lockhart. The prize is ...

How much regulation do financial markets really need? Are government stimulus programs effective? Should bank executives’ pay be restricted? Those are a few of the questions that will be discussed ...

In his new book, Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes (University Press), Albert Alschuler, the Wilson-Dickinson Professor in the Law School, offers a fresh and ...

Instructors in the University’s Little Red Schoolhouse writing program gather for a photo in their new teaching space in Stuart Hall. They are (left to right) Mark Luce, Cecelia Watson, Annal Frenz, ...