Twelve distinguished scholars have received faculty appointments at the University this year and have joined their new Chicago colleagues in the Biological Sciences Division, the Division of the ...

Above is a sample of three sling bullets made of clay and found in the collapsed, burnt buildings at the Hamoukar site in Syria. New details about the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities, ...

Bernice Neugarten, Professor Emeritus in Behavioral Science and a pioneer in the study of aging, died Sunday, July 22, in her Hyde Park apartment. She was 85. Her work on the aging process, which ...

Americans are particularly challenged in their ability to understand someone else’s point of view because they are part of a culture that encourages individualism, new research in psychology shows. In ...

A mind that possesses great artistic ability often suffers from great mental anguish, as well. This was a finding in a study of well-known visual and literary artists, and it was a result that Robert ...

Wide swings in temperature and rainfall are common in Syria and nearby areas of the Middle East, and that variability probably had a broad impact on the development of civilization in ancient times, ...

Three University faculty members have received 2004 Guggenheim fellowships in the 80th annual U.S. and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The foundation ...

The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the ...

Stephen Harvey pauses for a photo during one of his trips to Abydos. A watercolor rendition of a fragment of limestone, which shows a band of sky with stars, was found at the top of a wall from the ...

This artifact, the Lady’s Head from Warka (ancient Uruk), is made of marble and dates to 3000 B.C. It was stolen from the Iraqi National Museum in April 2003 and recovered in September. This modern ...

During the Cultural Revolution in China, which lasted a decade (1966 to 1976), artists and intellectuals experienced a level of oppression that is difficult, even now, to comprehend. In an attempt to ...

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named four University faculty members 2007 Guggenheim fellows in its annual competition. This year’s Chicago winners, who were selected from among ...