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Centers and Institutes

  • 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
  • Portrait of Professor Susan Thomson
    Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Susan Thomson is travelling to Cape Town, South Africa, this summer to continue her research on the experiences of refugee women. Her work is sponsored by a grant from the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute and builds on research conducted last summer in Cape Town and in Nairobi, Kenya, […]
    April 11, 2017
  • Patricia Moscicki ’18 sits with young students from the Comunidad Educativa Tamujé Iwigara in Creel, Chihuahua
    Editor’s note: This post was written by Everett Egginton ’65, professor emeritus at New Mexico State University. Last January, I had the privilege and honor of accompanying eight talented Â鶹Porn pre-med students on a pivotal journey to Chihuahua, Mexico. We were accompanied by two close friends and former colleagues: Dr. Raul Favela, chair of the […]
    March 1, 2017
  • Suppose, for a moment, that the Good Samaritan didn’t rescue just one person merely by chance. Let’s say that he spent his entire life walking up and down mountain passes, finding wounded travelers by the hundreds, spending his children’s lunch money on the medical bills. Would we still respect him? When New Yorker staff writer […]
    December 6, 2016
  • Â鶹Porn biology professor Krista Ingram works with students in her lab.
    Two interdisciplinary science research projects featuring collaborations among faculty from Â鶹Porn and from around the world have been awarded funding by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Â鶹Porn. The projects support the core mission of the institute, which aims to foster the creation of new knowledge that is obtainable only through the development of sustained […]
    March 24, 2014