Tag: University of Chicago

  • Nation & World

    How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?

    Book by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway traces history of how Americans came to trust markets more than government.

    12 minutes
    Naomi Oreskes, book cover and Erik Conway.
  • Nation & World

    The right game plan

    Harvard’s new director of athletics, Erin McDermott, talks about her commitment to the student-athlete’s success in the classroom and on the court, what lies ahead for the Crimson.

    17 minutes
    Erin McDermott.
  • Nation & World

    Oliver Hart named University Professor

    Nobel-laureate economics Professor Oliver Hart is awarded Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

    4 minutes
    Oliver Hart.
  • Nation & World

    Tishman Speyer to develop first phase of Enterprise Research Campus in Allston

    Harvard selects Tishman Speyer to develop first phase of Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.

    9 minutes
    Conceptual rendering of portion of Enterprise Research Campus.
  • Nation & World

    Want to live past 100?

    A two-day symposium organized by Professor of Medicine Steven Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School examined the scientific, nutritional, and health-related aspects of aging.

    4 minutes
    Two people sitting on a bench
  • Nation & World

    Ludwig Cancer Research awards HMS $90M

    Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder, Daniel K. Ludwig, has given Harvard Medical School $90 million to spur innovative scientific inquiry and discovery. According to the Ludwig announcement, this new financial support is among the largest private gifts ever for cancer research.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fighting poverty, by design

    A young Harvard architect, with an eye to other cultures, challenges his profession to use design to end poverty and spur social justice.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where money meets politics

    James M. Snyder Jr., an economist and Harvard’s newest professor of government, is a student of American elections, where he finds that campaign contributions don’t have the sway you might suppose.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Abraham Freedberg

    Abraham Freedberg had a long and illustrious medical career at Harvard. He was outstanding in all the metrics of academic excellence. In addition to his research, teaching and patient care, Al (Freedberg preferred to be called Al or A. Stone) had a multidimensional fourth quality that set him apart.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Daniel Bell, social scientist, 91

    Daniel Bell, the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and one of America’s most dynamic thinkers, died on Jan. 25. He was 91.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Gabrielse wins Lilienfeld Prize

    Harvard Physics Professor Gerald Gabrielse was named the recipient of the 2011 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, awarded by the American Physical Society for outstanding contributions to physics.

    2 minutes
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    Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96

    Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.

    1 minute