Students from the UChicago branch of Organizing for Action (OFA)—a continuation of the national coalition which worked to re-elect President Obama—showed their support for Senate Bill 649, the Safe Schools, Safe Communities Act of 2013, by attending a gun violence vigil organized by the Illinois chapter of the organization at Federal Plaza Saturday evening. At...
The President discussed the potential effects of the $85 billion sequester cuts on federal funding for clean energy research at Argonne National Laboratory on Friday.
University administrators have responded to the Maroon investigation revealing that a UCPD detective was working undercover at the February 23 trauma protest.
Approximately 40 protesters, including individual members of UChicago’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Chicago based activist group US Palestinian Community Network, protested a talk given by Israeli-American Law Professor Amos Guiora from the University of Utah at I-House last night. In addition to picketing, some of the protesters faced their chairs away...
According to an announcement made to the Transportation and Security Advisory Board (TSAB), the University of Chicago will discontinue its partnership with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) this August. In order to replace student transportation provided by the CTA 170, 171, and 172 routes, the University is in the process of searching for new transportation...
Undergraduate students and alumni helped scientists on the ATLAS project, which contributed to the possible discovery of the Higgs boson particle earlier this month.
Senior administrators began looking into local banks after a meeting in February with students, who raised the University's engagement with community financial institutions as an issue.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) have begun a study to determine whether a costly anti-cancer drug could be prescribed at lower doses if taken with food, which would significantly decrease cost and discomfort for patients. Currently, patients taking Zytiga, an oral drug used to treat advanced prostate cancer, are told to...
When Roosevelt Burkett launched his rap career three years ago under the name “Slang Bang,” he had been working as a custodian at the University for over a decade. His work has been simmering since then, laying just under the radar of the Illinois hip-hop scene. But between U of C students on Facebook and...
Hyde Park entrepreneurs Jackie Jackson and Kenneth Faulkner have sealed a sweet deal to open a second branch of Kilwins ice cream and candy shop on East 53rd Street and South Harper Avenue this fall. The cherry on top? The neighborhood will finally be immortalized, in sugar and heavy cream, with its own flavor: “Hyde...
Chicago is still months away from hosting May’s NATO and G8 summits, but that hasn’t stopped Hyde Park politicians from raising alarms about the city’s preparations for the events.
A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and Cornell University have developed a new type of robotic arm that can lend an iron hand to humans in need. The arm, capable of gripping and throwing objects normally challenging for similar robots, uses technology developed at the U of C, which allows an object...
When it opened in 1892, the University of Chicago was one of the few universities in the country willing to admit both men and women. Despite its non-discriminatory foundations, the fight to retain the rights of women at the University was not an easy one, requiring unification, protest, and leadership. In 2009, the University of...
About 4,000 people die annually in the United States due to lack of kidney donors, and another 86,000 patients are on the waiting list, making kidney failure a growing problem for the medical industry.
The student-run coffee shop, which once occupied the A-Level, reopened Monday morning on the first floorof the Regenstein library after months of construction work.
An unsupervised performance on the roof of Ryerson Physical Laboratory with University Theater (UT) members was shut down by the UCPD last Wednesday night.
A University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) study has found a link between excess abdominal fat and the spread of ovarian cancer. The study was prompted when researchers noticed that cancer cells in patients with ovarian cancer tended to metastasize into the fat pad, or omentum, as well. Over 20,000 women were diagnosed with ovarian...
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