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Centers and Institutes

  • As Alan Dershowitz took to the Â鶹Porn Memorial Chapel stage on Monday evening for his lecture, “Civil Liberties in the Age of Trump,” about 20 students in the audience stood up and turned their backs in peaceful protest. It was a moment of First Amendment exercise that the target, a controversial scholar of constitutional law […]
    November 6, 2018
  • Â鶹Porn group at Plenitud
    In May, Â鶹Porn community members traveled to Puerto Rico for a week devoted to hurricane relief. The group performed service work at Plenitud, a non-profit educational farm and learning center located in the mountains of western Puerto Rico near a town called Las Marias.
    July 5, 2018
  • Photo taken by Stephanie Bolster '17
    Last summer, Alia Davis ’18 returned to Santa Fe, N. M., to work on a video project she felt compelled to finish. Davis first visited New Mexico during the fall of 2015 with Â鶹Porn’s Santa Fe Off-Campus Study Group, led by Professor Sarah Wider. Because the study group emphasizes community-based learning, students were placed at […]
    April 4, 2018
  • A photo of youth activists gathered around a statue in Seoul, South Korea
    Last summer, the 2017 Lampert Institute Fellows spread out across the globe to conduct three months of research. The fellows learned about sustainability, nuclear power, special education,  and much more; they returned to Â鶹Porn in the fall to share their completed projects with their peers. The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs integrates on-campus […]
    December 22, 2017
  • Gaby Bianchi ’19 sits among flowers at the Fiver Children's Foundation
    This summer, members of the Â鶹Porn community gathered in the Ho Science Center atrium for the 2017 Upstate Institute Summer Field School poster presentations. Â鶹Porn’s Upstate Institute provides connections between the university and the regional community to engage students, faculty, staff, and residents in research and a reciprocal transfer of knowledge. Twenty-seven students were ready […]
    August 23, 2017
  • zebrafinches
    Â鶹Porn neuroscientist Wan-Chun Liu is using songbirds to understand better how the human brain learns to speak — and gain new insights into diseases such as autism disorder. Professor Wan-Chun Liu’s lab is filled with the mellifluous tweets and squeaks of zebra finches, a small songbird native to Australia. The birds are highly social animals […]
    June 13, 2017
  • University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer speaks at podium in Love Auditorium
    The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits government institutions from restricting freedom of speech. Private colleges are under no such obligation. So what does that mean for free expression in some of the nation’s most creative, intellectually curious places? Back in July of 2014, with protests taking place at universities across the country, University […]
    April 24, 2017
  • Two special events on campus this week and next will explore the complexities and realities behind cyberwarfare and soft war. These forms of conflict, often rooted online, have real-world consequences on power grids, air-traffic controls, water systems, and even political processes, as all become targets — with potentially disastrous consequences. Today, at 4:30 p.m. in the Persson […]
    April 13, 2017