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The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics Schedules Conference on Market Liquidity
CHICAGO -- The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, established by the Financial Mathematics Program at the University of Chicago, will hold on Saturday, November 1, 2008, a Conference on Market Liquidity involving presentations by eight noted practitioners and academic researchers. "While obviously a timely topic, our Conference on Market...
Distinguished University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein to Address the Mortgage Crisis at Pepperdine School of Law
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Molly Drobnick of Pepperdine University, +1-310-506- 6586, molly.drobnick@pepperdine.edu "The Mortgage (Or, Subprime) Meltdown: Why One Bad Decision Deserves Yet Another" MALIBU, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago School of Law will speak...
Increasing Rate of Return on a Gift Challenge Does Little to Boost Giving.
Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Dec. 15 AScribe Newswire -- A little encouragement makes a big difference in people's motivation to give to a charity, but upgrading the encouragement doesn't automatically boost giving, according to a University of Chicago study on the impact of...
Doing More of What Works to Improve Student Learning: 'Scale-Up in Education'
To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: Barbara Schneider +1-517-432-0188, or Sarah McDonald +1- 773-256-6199, both for NORC at the University of Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two new books address two issues of critical concern on the eve of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ESEA: how confident can...
Black Law Students Association Continues Thurgood Marshall Lecture Series; Political Science Professor Kevin J. McMahon to Discuss FDR and Race.
Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 16 AScribe Newswire -- The Earl B. Dickerson Chapter of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Chicago is hosting its second installment of the Thurgood Marshall Lecture Series at 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007...
South Asian History at Trinity College
DR. VIJAY PRASHAD has been named the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History at Trinity College (Conn.). He is a professor of international studies at the university. Prashad holds a bachelor's from Pomona College and a master's and doctorate from the University of Chicago.
Tropics are cradle, museum of life: study
WASHINGTON AFP — The tropics are at once the cradle and museum of much of the world's biodiversity, said a study, which pointed up the need to preserve rain forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems. Paleontologists and biologists at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Chicago showed that...
Longtime law Professor Bernard H. Siegan Dies
Siegan Dies: Bernard H. Siegan, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, died March 27. He was 82. He had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke late last year. Siegan, who practiced law in Chicago for more than 20 years, joined USD's faculty in...
Klan Leader Praises Harvard Professors' Essay on Israel Lobby.
By the Chicago Tribune & the Financial Times The Associated Press reported Thursday that KKK leader and former U.S. Congressman David Duke's praise that an essay by two Harvard and University of Chicago professors 'validates' the position that Israel lobbies help control media and...
Data devotee.(The Business of Life)(Professor of Economics, Austan Goolsbee)(Brief article)
Byline: Christina Le Beau Austan Goolsbee, 36, the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, graduated from MIT and Yale and taught class on his wedding day wearing a tux. What a brainiac reads: ...
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