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Number of Employees 12,460
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Fitch Affirms University of Chicago's Illinois Short-Term Rating at 'F1+'
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Data Conversion Laboratory Converts Historic French Encyclopedias for the University...
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Books: A plan to scan
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- 2009-08-13
A 1960 sociological study of female Finnish students or an 1894 handbook on how to ???play cricket are probably at the top of no one???s poolside reading list this year. Long out of print, such works are more likely to be gathering dust in attics, languishing forgotten at the backs...
U. Chicago Business School gets $300 Million, New Name
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- 2008-11-11
Entrepreneur and visionary marketer David G. Booth has made history 300 million ways with a $300 million gift to the University of Chicago business school, which will be renamed University of Chicago Booth School of Business in his honor. This is the largest gift to any business school in the...
The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics Schedules Conference on Market Liquidity
- 2008-10-29
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...
Curriculum Changes Announced by University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
- 2008-10-08
CHICAGO -- The faculty at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business today approved changes in the school's curriculum that will add flexibility to an M.B.A. program already known for allowing students wide latitude in course selection. The faculty also voted to add a new academic concentration in...
Dosing Initiated in TransMolecular's Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial for Intravenous Administration of Iodine-TM601 in Patients with Recurrent Malignant Glioma
- 2008-09-29
-First patient treated at University of Chicago Medical Center- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- TransMolecular, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on targeted therapies for cancer, announced today that dosing was initiated in a Phase 1/2 trial of 131I-TM601 delivered intravenously IV for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma....
Making a difference
- 2008-08-16
DOES YOUR work matter to you? If so, then start reading Tad Waddington's Lasting Contribution: How to think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work. A book critics have aptly described as `a powerful dose of wisdom in a concise package', Lasting Contribution is filled with profound and effective advice...
US scientists find biggest stone age burial ground in Niger
- 2008-08-14
WASHINGTON AFP — US archaeologists have discovered the largest known burial ground of the Stone Age in the Sahara desert, in Niger, that besides human remains has also yielded fossils of huge crocodiles and dinosaurs, National Geographic magazine said. Named Gobero, the archaeological site is an estimated 10,000 years...
The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea—actually, a rather obvious one
- 2008-08-04
The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea--actually, a rather obvious one: name a research institute after Milton Friedman. But some 100 professors throughout the university had another idea: block the naming of the institute after Friedman. Why? Because, in the words of...
Among royalty
- 2008-07-29
IN THE 1960s, famed community organizer Saul Alinksy, Arthur M. Brazier and the Woodlawn Organization took on the University of Chicago, the mayor's office, some church groups and even this magazine as they strove to improve life for people in the Woodlawn community near Hyde Park. This summer, the...
Nudge Against the Fudge
- 2008-06-30
Dare we hope that Barack Obama shares the ‘libertarian paternalism’ of two of his former University of Chicago colleagues? Barack Obama is a “choice architect” aiming to implement “libertarian paternalism.” He might not know that he is; he might embrace the practice without understanding the theory. It is adumbrated...
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