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Plague Bacteria Linked to Death of Scientist

University of Chicago geneticist exposed to weakened strain

Sep 22, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 60-year-old researcher at the University of Chicago died earlier this month from an infection that may have been set off by the bacteria that causes the plague. Malcolm Casadaban was working with a weakened strain of the bacteria that is normally harmless, and the CDC has been called in... More »

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Chicago • plague • University of Chicago • bacteria • research • scientist • academic scientists

OBITUARY

Economist
Rose Friedman Dead at 98

Collaborated with husband Milton on foundational texts

Aug 19, 09 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rose Friedman, economist and collaborator with husband and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, died yesterday of heart failure, the Chicago Tribune reports. Rose was the co-author of Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, two foundational texts of the Chicago School of economics. Though birth records from her birthplace in modern-day... More »

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economics • University of Chicago • obituary • Chicago School • Ukraine • Milton Friedman • Rose Friedman

ANALYSIS

Liberal Bent, 'Empathy' Mark Potential Justice

Diane Wood was Chicago law faculty colleague of Obama's

May 12, 09 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - In choosing a new Supreme Court justice, President Obama says he wants not just a savvy legal brain, but also someone who can show “empathy.” Diane Wood, his former University of Chicago colleague and a judge on the Seventh Circuit, meets both criteria, the New York Times reports.... More »

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abortion rights • University of Chicago • US Supreme Court • Diane Wood • Richard Posner • 7th Circuit Court

 For Obama, Justice 
 Must Be Pragmatic 

Law school students, colleagues reflect to predict his choice

May 3, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama carries an unusual wealth of Supreme Court knowledge from his days at law school and as a law professor, the New York Times reports, which he'll put to use in replacing Justice Souter. But don’t expect him to go straight for a liberal: Former colleagues and students... More »

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University of Chicago • law school • Harvard Law School • nominee • US Supreme Court • David Souter • President Obama

 Sleep Longer, Live Longer? 

Extra hour of sleep linked to less calcification in arteries

Dec 24, 08 2:00 AM CST
(Newser) - An extra hour in bed may save your life, Web MD reports. Every extra hour of sleep over six hours a night has been linked to a significant drop in people's chances of developing a build-up of calcium in their arteries, potentially cutting their risk of heart attack, according to... More »

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sleep • plague • University of Chicago • heart attack • artery calcification

Univ. of Chicago Biz School Banks $300M

Low-profile fund manager Booth makes historic donation

Nov 7, 08 5:46 AM CST
(Newser) - An alumnus of the University of Chicago who made a fortune from principles he learned at its graduate business school has donated a no-strings-attached $300 million to the school, reports the Chicago Tribune. The donation, by Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David G. Booth, is the largest ever to a business... More »

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philanthropy • University of Chicago • business school • Booth School of Business • Chicago Booth • Edward Snyder • Eugene Fama • Booth Family Trust

GPA, Personal Essay, SATs ... and Sabotage?

Anonymous smear letters on the rise, say admissions officers

Oct 20, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - With competition for college admissions ever rising, some students are aiming to get ahead by trashing their rivals. Admission officials around the US have reported receiving newspaper clippings, references to Facebook pages, and, in one case, a letter written in crayon pointing out other applicants' false claims or unseemly behavior.... More »

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college admissions • University of Chicago • competition • Notre Dame • sabotage • Harvard • colleges and universities • admissions officers

 10 Most-Buzzed-About Schools 

Harvard beats out Columbia for most internet references

Sep 30, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Institutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners:
  1. Harvard University
  2. Columbia University
  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  4. University of California, Berkeley
  5. Stanford
... More »

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Internet • Columbia University • Princeton University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • UC Berkeley • college • publicity • Cornell University • University of Michigan • Harvard • University of Wisconsin Madison

OPINION

PTA Mom: Gotta Love Palin for Public Schooling Kids

Advocate (and Dem) Tsing Loh disturbed to see candidates' offspring in private education

Sep 10, 08 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sandra Tsing Loh likes Barack and Michelle Obama’s politics, but, as a proud PTA mom, wonders why they couldn’t send their kids to a public school in their native Chicago, she writes in the New York Times. The inclusion of middle-class or affluent children, especially from families who... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • University of Chicago • public schools • private schools • Sarah Palin

 Obama Revealed
 Little, Provoked
 Much as a Prof

Dem hid his notions, but unpacked complex issues

Jul 30, 08 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama stood out as a University of Chicago law professor in the 1990s: He didn't publish, he turned down tenure, he ran for office, and he collected a coterie of adoring liberal students at a largely conservative school. Yet he provoked them to take sides more than he revealed... More »

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Barack Obama • University of Chicago • professor • bipartisanship • oratory

 Live-In Lovers
 Hit Record Number

6.4M unmarried hetero couples live together

Jul 29, 08 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The number of unmarried heterosexual couples living together reached a record 6.4 million in 2007, or 10% of all hetero couples who share a home, according to the Census Bureau. It's a snapshot of the changing American family. Some 2.5 million of the couples—45.5%—are raising... More »

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marriage • Census Bureau • University of Chicago • University of Michigan • cohabitation • Population Studies Center • Pamela Smock • heterosexual couples • Linda Waite

Obama Impressed
Law School's Conservatives

University of Chicago courted him despite liberal leanings

Jul 23, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The University of Chicago Law School—an institution noted for its conservative leanings—tried hard to recruit part-time lecturer Barack Obama into academia when his early political career was foundering, the New Republic reports. Some of the school's conservative scholars say they disagreed with Obama's political bent but were impressed... More »

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Barack Obama • University of Chicago • law school • professor • bipartisanship

 Yoga Turning 
 B-Schoolers 
 on Their Heads 

Capitalists latch on to search for inner peace

Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT... More »

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MIT • business • University of Chicago • stress • business school • capitalism • Harvard • yoga • BusinessWeek • Northwestern University

OPINION

Note to Right: Hyde Park Is Neither Liberal nor Elite

Hyde Park is maverick—and conservative

Jun 11, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the right cranking up to use Obama's Chicago neighborhood as a weapon against him—the Weekly Standard depicting it in a long piece as an liberal elitist bastion—Wall Street Journal columnist (and former Barack neighbor) Thomas Frank says it’s complete bunk. Not only do Hyde Park-ers have... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • University of Chicago • Hyde Park • right-wing attacks • Milton Friedman

opinion

 What Hyde Park
 Tells Us About Obama 

Lefty enclave is racially mixed, but lofty

Jun 9, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - "It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard of the area in south Chicago Barack Obama calls home. It's a college town, a lefty enclave where the moneyed mix with boho bookworms, and "NPR... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • University of Chicago • elitism • Bill Ayers • Hyde Park

OPINION

 Dear Michelle: Let Him Light Up 

Barack needs a cigarette to get his cool back, scribe pleads with Mrs. O

Apr 29, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Please, Michelle Obama, can’t Barack have just one cigarette? Your husband “looks tired, and he’s been awful on TV,” declares Paul Devlin at The Root. The “future of the free world depends on” a puff or two, as the Democratic front-runner needs to regain his... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • cigarettes • University of Chicago

That's Professor Obama to You

U of Chicago refutes Clinton claim; liberal blog backs off McCain plagiarism allegation

Mar 28, 08 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama was indeed a professor at the University of Chicago's law school, the school said today. The Clinton campaign and the Sun-Times have said otherwise, but academic semantics back the onetime senior lecturer. The university said that title did qualify Obama as a professor—and the law school had... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • plagiarism • University of Chicago • professor • Chicago Sun Times

Obama Brain Trust's Key 'Ism' Is Pragmatism

Team of behavioral economists bucks convention, ideology

Feb 29, 08 9:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s brain trust leans heavily on behavioral economics, the New Republic reports, with academics who start small in their analyses—looking at everyday anomalies—and are relatively ideology-free pragmatists. From his top economic adviser to his health-care and Social Security aides, Obama is surrounded not by "big-think... More »

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Barack Obama • nuclear weapons • University of Chicago • Richard Thaler • behavioral ecnonomics • automatic tax return • Austan Goolsbee • carbon emissions

UPDATED

NIU Gunman Had Stopped Taking Meds

Honor student's behavior 'somewhat erratic' before shooting

Feb 15, 08 10:38 AM CST
(Newser) - The gunman who killed five and wounded 15 in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall yesterday was identified this morning as Steven Kazmierczak, an ex-NIU grad student who had won top sociology department honors, the Chicago Tribune reports. "There were no red flags," said the campus police chief.... More »

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Chicago • University of Chicago • college • school shooting • gunman • Northern Illinois University • gun violence

Poor Sleep Linked
to Diabetes

Tired bodies have trouble regulating blood sugar, research shows

Jan 1, 08 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Poor sleep may lead to weight gain and diabetes, according to new research. After only 3 nights of light sleep, healthy people lost their ability to process sugar by 23%, perhaps explaining why many diabetics also have sleep disorders, ABC News reports. Although the survey sample was small, it casts... More »

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diabetes • University of Chicago • pancreas • sleep deprivation • insulin • weight gain • slow wave sleep • Joslin Diabetes Center • Dr. Esra Tasali • Dr. Martin Abrahamson • University of Rochester • insulin resistance • sleep disorder

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