Grey City sat down with five new faculty members appointed within the last year and half: Kenneth Pomeranz (history), Amie Wilkinson (mathematics), Patrick Jagoda (English), Nicolas Brunel (statistics and neurobiology), and Paul Nealey (the new Institute for Molecular Engineering). You might not know their names yet. But you may well soon. .
GC: Describe your work in three sentences or less. NB: My field is called computational neuroscience, and the idea is basically to use quantitative tools from applied mathematics, statistics, and physics to try to understand how the brain works. There are many different branches of computational neuroscience—some people work on mathematical models of single neurons...
GC: A lot of your molecular engineering research focuses on computer chips. Can you describe your work in three sentences or less, as if you were explaining it to a political science major? PN: The size of the device is now on the molecular level, so it’s kind of consistent with molecular engineering. The traditional...
GC: Describe your work in three sentences or less. PJ: I’m interested in the ways the network arose as a material metaphor in the late 20th century. So, why it is that we use the metaphor of the network to describe economic systems, the Internet, terrorist networks, ecosystems? My work looks at the ways different...
GC: My brother got all the math genes in my family, but is it possible to describe your work to me in three sentences or less? AW: My work is in an area called dynamical systems, which is a space that evolves over time according to a set of rules. Both planetary motion and the...
GC: Describe your work in three sentences or less. KP: Most of my work has been trying to trace long-run patterns of economic development, environmental change, state formation, and social structure in China—particularly rural China. One way of thinking about that is looking at particular sets of patterns of land and water rights and how...
When Mayor Rahm Emanuel entered talks with the University on Hyde Park development and city permits, what emerged was the Memorandum of Understanding: a nine-page document that outlines a collaboration between the city and the University on $1.7 billion worth of capital projects. But despite its heft, the MOU is already encountering rough scrutiny from the community..
International judges confirmed last week what all U of C students have known for years: John Boyer, in addition to being Dean of the College, is Dean of Moustaches.
The Pub may be operated by the food service provider that takes over residential dining areas and campus cafés as part of the Global Dining Initiative.
Mayor Daley spoke as part of the Future of the City Symposium, which was organized by the Harris School of Public Policy and the Office of Civic Engagement.
Street conditions prompted administration to cancel classes on Wednesday and Thursday. Students enjoyed the blizzard's aftermath, with hundreds coming to the Main Quad for a snowball fight.
The number of community service RSOs more than doubled to 75 during Goode's time at the UCSC. The new director will likely take his position as advisor to all of them.
The 15 current members of College Council will vote in Stuart Hall Monday on who will fill the spot after both candidates speak in front of the Council.
Students pressed Zimmer to discuss the relationship between campus police and minority students, the University's role in the Hyde Park community, and alcohol use on campus.
Second-year David Akinin plans to strengthen the role of undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees by establishing a trusting relationship between student representatives and the Board if he is elected.
The pilot late-night food program, which runs until midnight from Monday to Thursday, will be used by Aramark to gauge the need for after-hours dining on campus.
Students and faculty associated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) were relieved to hear it will continue receiving funding after associate director Rusty Rook (M.A. ‘96) was fired three weeks ago, although concerns remain over CMES’s independence from the University.
The associate director's termination was seen by many as a signal that the University may no longer support Center for Middle Eastern Studies' mission or that administrators may want more control over how the center spends its funds.
Candidates from the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Independent, and Republican parties were present at the debate hosted by Free and Equal, an organization dedicated to improving ballot access laws.
A People’s History of the United States author Howard Zinn urged a crowded Mandel Hall to take action against injustice in a conversation about social activism Saturday.
Now in its 31st year, the mission of Humanities Day is to make scholars and their research accessible to the general public. According to Wellbery, Faust was the perfect subject for the address because the character appears in so many adaptations, and connects to every aspect of the humanities.
Started by the Gaming Guild, a club devoted to organizing sports and pastimes, “Capture the Flag on the Quads” began last spring as an occasional Saturday night activity.
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