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University of Chicago

Founded by Baptists in 1890, along with oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago occupies 211 acres in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Chicago. It has 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional and other students. Its athletic teams are called the Maroons. Although the university was founded by Baptists, it was nondenominational from the start and enrolled women and minorities at a time when many universities did not. The College, for undergraduates, has five divisions: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Humanities Collegiate Division; New Collegiate Division; Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Its six...  Show more »
Founded by Baptists in 1890, along with oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago occupies 211 acres in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Chicago. It has 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional and other students. Its athletic teams are called the Maroons. Although the university was founded by Baptists, it was nondenominational from the start and enrolled women and minorities at a time when many universities did not. The College, for undergraduates, has five divisions: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Humanities Collegiate Division; New Collegiate Division; Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Its six professional schools are: Divinity School; Graduate School of Business; Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Law School; Pritzker School of Medicine; and School of Social Service Administration. The four graduate divisions are: Division of the Biological Sciences; Division of the Humanities; Division of the Physical Sciences; and Division of the Social Sciences. Also connected with the university are the Adler Planetarium, the Argonne National Laboratory; the Chapin Hall Center for Children; the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Field Museum; the Toyota Technological Institute; the Yerkes Observatory; and the Oriental Institute. More than 70 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as faculty members, students or researchers.  « Show less

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    May 22, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Chicago women in D3 tennis finals

    The University of Chicago women's tennis team has become just the second team in school history to make an NCAA Division III tournament final.
    The University of Chicago women's tennis team has become just the second team in school history to make an NCAA Division III tournament final. The No. 2 Maroons advanced to Wednesday's final in Cary, N.C., with a 5-1 win Tuesday over No. 3 Amherst. In a...

    Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports, Tennis

    2. May 22, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  2. Orange honors 97 seniors admitted to top colleges

    Sentinel School Zone - Orlando Sentinel
    The Orange County School Board is recognizing tonight its top one percent — the nearly 100 students admitted to top colleges from amongst about 10,000 high school graduates this year. The district's traditional high schools provided the names of...
    3. May 22, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Corrections and clarifications for Tuesday, May 22, 2012

    •A story on the front page of Monday's A+E section about the "Comics: Philosophy & Practice" conference at the University of Chicago misstated the location of the school's Logan Center for the Arts and its distance from McCormick Place. It is in the...

    Tags: Jesse Jackson, McCormick Place

    4. May 21, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  4. Annual Survey: Community Colleges

    TribLocal - Elgin » News
    Although leaving home for college is a traditional rite of passage for many 18-year-olds, many students still get quality educations at community colleges, such as …...
    5. May 20, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. R. Crumb stars at U. of C. comics panel

    Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, farther south, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering of cartooning royalty. While someone, somewhere Friday night was surely gushing to a visiting dignitary about how great Turkey is, a young Chicago art school graduate was nervously gripping the hand of cartooning superstar Chris Ware, vibrating so visibly that cartoon squiggles seemed to leap off. Ware, deadpan, patient, smiled.
    Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, farther south, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering of...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Politics, Cartoons, NATO, Defense

    6. May 20, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Boy, 12, gunned down on South Side

    A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot late Saturday night near his Southeast Side home, another man was killed on the South Side and five other people were wounded in separate overnight attacks, according to Chicago police.
    Tribune reporters
    A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot late Saturday night near his Southeast Side home, another man was killed on the South Side and five other people were wounded in separate overnight attacks, according to Chicago police. The boy, Nazia Banks, was playing...

    Tags: Chicago Police Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Roseland, Morgan Park, Murder

    7. May 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Find program that fits your dream

    The Chicago area has numerous schools with MBA programs, including two — University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management — whose business schools continue to rank among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. That's in addition to scores of online programs and schools outside Chicagoland.
    The Chicago area has numerous schools with MBA programs, including two — University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management — whose business schools continue to rank among the best in...

    Tags: Elections, Northwestern University, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Politics

    8. May 18, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. What's worse library behavior: watching porn or stabbing someone?

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    Which do you think is worse library behavior: looking at porn or stabbing someone?...
    9. May 19, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  9. Amid Backlash, CEO Pay Still Rising In Connecticut

    For more than two decades, discontent over rising CEO pay has been simmering. Now, a devastating recession, the Occupy movement and mandatory shareholder votes on executive pay have combined to turn up the heat and have led to changes that some experts consider significant.
    The Hartford Courant
    For more than two decades, discontent over rising CEO pay has been simmering. Now, a devastating recession, the Occupy movement and mandatory shareholder votes on executive pay have combined to turn up the heat and have led to changes that some experts...

    Tags: Elections, Colleges and Universities, Shareholders, Pharmaceuticals, Music

    10. May 19, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. CEO compensation list preoccupies us

    Thanks to the 10-year, $275 million deal he signed in 2007, shortly after earning the third of his three American League MVP awards, the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reportedly will make $30 million this baseball season.
    Thanks to the 10-year, $275 million deal he signed in 2007, shortly after earning the third of his three American League MVP awards, the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reportedly will make $30 million this baseball season. There are plenty of other...

    Tags: Sanjay K. Jha, Alex Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Phil Rosenthal, Occupy Wall Street

    11. May 18, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Radio host Ira Glass assures Goucher grads, 'It's normal to feel lost'

    The program at Goucher College's 121st commencement ceremony Friday listed speaker Ira Glass' main connection to the Towson college: His grandmother was a member of its Class of 1931. In the public radio host's remarks, he added that college President Sanford J. Ungar was his former colleague at NPR and had coaxed him into appearing.
    The program at Goucher College's 121st commencement ceremony Friday listed speaker Ira Glass' main connection to the Towson college: His grandmother was a member of its Class of 1931. In the public radio host's remarks, he added that college President...

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Adolf Hitler, Radio

    12. May 20, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Larry Sjaastad, 1934-2012

    Larry Sjaastad, an applied theorist known for his international work in public finance and macro and development economics, was a longtime member of the University of Chicago's storied economics faculty. In addition to research and teaching, Mr. Sjaastad...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Argentina, Electronics

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Linden Li and Jennifer Kung, who won in doubles Tuesday...
(May 22, 2012)
Linden Li and Jennifer Kung, who won in doubles Tuesday as their U of C team beat Amherst in the NCAA semifinals.
Comics: Philosophy and Practice panel at the University...
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Comics: Philosophy and Practice panel at the University of Chicago
MBA student Imran Ahmad (left) with other students at t...
(May 7, 2012)
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