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• Increasing Rate of Return on a Gift Challenge Does Little to Boost Giving.

  - 2007-12-15

  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...

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• Replacing rhetoric with research: two scholars with ties to the University of Chicago aim to shed light on Black life in the 21st century

  - 2007-08-23

  Chicago's South Side has long been a renowned laboratory for groundbreaking research on Black urban life. Dr. E. Franklin Frazier wrote The Negro Family in Chicago in the 1930s. Dr. St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton authored Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City in...

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• Multiple recipients: 4 scholars to share award.(Frontlines)(Shlomo Benartzi from University of California)(Richard H. Thaler from University of Chicago)(Jonathan B. Berk from University of California)(Richard C. Green from Carnegie Mellon University)(Brie

  - 2006-02-06

  Byline: Barry B. Burr Four scholars will share the 10th annual Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, splitting its $10,000 prize. Shlomo Benartzi, associate professor of accounting at the Univ Byline: Barry B. Burr...

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• Lynton Keith Caldwell (1913 – ) American Scholar and Environmentalist

  - 2005-10-25

  Lynton Keith Caldwell (1913 – ) American scholar and environmentalist Lynton Caldwell has been a key figure in the development of environmental policy in the United States. A longtime advocate for adding an environmental amendment to the Constitution, Caldwell has insisted that the federal government has a duty to...

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• Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology.(book)(anthropological biography)(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-01

  WILCOX, CLIFFORD. Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology. xi, 233 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004. [pounds sterling]35.00 cloth Biography and biographical analysis are not adequately utilized by historians of anthropology. In fact, there is only one current scholarly...

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• Utah justice hopeful 'outside the box'

  - 2005-06-26

  WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has placed the name of Michael McConnell, a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and former University of Utah professor, on its list of potential Supreme Court nominees, highlighting a conservative legal scholar whose opposition to abortion and provocative ideas about church and...

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• Notes.(Time Out!)

  - 2005-04-01

  Women in hip-hop The University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture is hosting a three-day conference starting Thursday that will focus on "Feminism and Hip-Hop." Scholars, activist and artists will participate in panels that explore images of women in...

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• Correction

  - 2004-12-01

  In "Bernard Lewis Revisited" by Michael Hirsh November, a scholar at the University of Chicago was mistakenly identified as Robert Wood. His name is John Woods, and he was among those who was attacked by Martin Kramer as an apologist for Islamic radicalism.

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• Discussing disgust

  - 2004-07-01

  Many conservative scholars argue that shame and disgust should play central roles in public life. But in her new book Hiding From Humanity Princeton University Press, Martha C. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, argues that these sentiments tend to distort public discussion in...

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• 'Queer Origins of Modern American Culture': Workshop Series Explores Gay Roots of U.S. Modernism.

  - 2003-10-03

  Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 3 AScribe Newswire -- During the Cold War, the United States stepped onto the world stage as an artistic force, producing what was recognized for the first time as a bona fide national culture. At the same time,...

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