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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

In conjunction with the Provost’s Office, Student Services and the News Office, the Web Services group in Networking Services and Information Technologies has ...

The last session of “The Idea of the University Colloquia” was presented by President Randel (at right, in photo at left), who talks with Robert Pippin, the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner ...

Architect Helmut Jahn designed the new elliptical glass-domed Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which will be built adjacent to the Joseph Regenstein Library. The architecture of the new library ...

The University will confer about 3,000 degrees on students from the College, graduate divisions and professional schools at its 498th Convocation ceremonies. Sessions will be held Friday, June 12, ...

Speaking in Breasted Hall Monday, President Randel addresses University staff members at a town hall meeting. Randel discusses some of the University’s recent successful projects and initiatives.

A student utilizes the storage space recently added to the RSO Resource Center in the lower level of the Reynolds Club. Since students use the space more for storage than for work, the Office of the ...

Rosa McCullagh (center), a mathematics teacher at University High School, is one of 10 Chicago-area teachers to receive the prestigious Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. Each of the ...