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• Handy gene kit was held in reserve.

  - 2007-05-29

  Byline: Jeff Hecht May 29, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scientists have discovered that arm fins of the paddlefish Polyodon developed in two phases. Marcus Davis and colleagues at the University of Chicago analysed Hox genes in the paddlefish. They found...

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• University of Chicago Project.(Ardmore Associates LLC)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-25

  Staff Chicago- Gilbane Building Co., in a joint venture with UBM Inc. and Ardmore Associates LLC, is constructing the University of Chicago's new 396,000-square-foot residence hall and dining facility. The new housing complex comprises a 900-bed residence hall with single-, double-...

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• Party On

  - 2006-05-01

  "Ooooooh!" As Angela Pryor pulled a $9.95 mini-hacksaw from her toolbox, the women in Kathy Stegmeier's Patchogue, New York, living room registered their enthusiasm. "After using tools for 30 years, you need something this powerful and light," Stegmeier said, wielding a multiratchet screwdriver. Geraldine Feindt needed the right wrench for...

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• Extensible Terascale Facility

  - 2005-11-01

  Aug. 22--The National Science Foundation has made a five-year, $150 million award to operate and enhance the Extensible Terascale Facility. Described as the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research, "TeraGrid" integrates high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the United States. University...

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• Growing the Grid

  - 2005-10-01

  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The TeraGrid will be expanding as the result of a five-year $48 million award from the National Science Foundation to the University of Chicago. The number of users is expected to grow from the current number of 1,000 to between 7,000 and 10,000. Many of...

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• Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Aged by Culture.(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Aged by Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Reviewed by Diane Gruber, Arizona State University Margaret Morganroth Gullette's Aged by Culture passionately lays the foundation for a new field of academic inquiry: age studies. Frustrated by disciplinary boundaries and conceptual language...

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• Aims to put engine maker on right track.(John Hamilton)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-08-01

  Byline: Bob Tita Job: President and CEO, La Grange-based locomotive maker Electro-Motive Diesel EMD, since April. Vitals: 46 years old; bachelor's degree in engineering and computer science, Princeton University, 1981; MBA, University of Chicago, 1986. Former president and CEO, Tokheim Corp.;...

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• Louis Leon Thurstone

  - 2005-01-01

  Louis Leon Thurstone The American psychologist Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955) was universally heralded as the most renowned psychometrician of his time. He led the way in mental measurement and testing through quantitative methods. Louis Leon Thurstone, whose original family name was Thünström, was born on May 29, 1887, in Chicago....

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• Nature Methods Publishes Breakthrough by Chromatin Co-Founder for Locating Centromeres

  - 2004-10-05

  CHICAGO -- Method Developed by Daphne Preuss at the University of Chicago and Licensed to Chromatin Enables Rapid, Broad Application of Technology Chromatin, Inc. announced today that the current issue of Nature Methods published an article describing findings by Daphne Preuss, Ph.D., the company's co-founder, to extend technology...

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• William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s.(Book Review)

  - 2004-06-22

  Saree Makdisi. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 394. $22.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-50260-0. In Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (1998), Saree Makdisi revealed new ways in which the canonical...

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