Above is a sample of three sling bullets made of clay and found in the collapsed, burnt buildings at the Hamoukar site in Syria. New details about the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities, ...

After 20 years as Dean of College Admissions, Ted O’Neill is embarking on what he calls the “best next stage for my life,” as a full-time teacher, researcher and writer at the University. “Admissions ...

Human evolution—in what has become our most important organ, the brain—is still under way, University researchers report in two related papers published in the Friday, Sept. 9 issue of Science. The ...

For a new graduate student in mathematics, the easy part is mastering equivariant K-theory or the geometry of quiver varieties. But navigating the transition from learning to doing research is another ...

The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the ...

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named four University faculty members 2007 Guggenheim fellows in its annual competition. This year’s Chicago winners, who were selected from among ...

Americans are particularly challenged in their ability to understand someone else’s point of view because they are part of a culture that encourages individualism, new research in psychology shows. In ...

Thirteen distinguished scholars have received faculty appointments at the University this year. The 13 new professors are: Dan Black, Lee Fennell, Leela Gandhi, Lenore Grenoble, Ramón Gutiérrez, ...

Wide swings in temperature and rainfall are common in Syria and nearby areas of the Middle East, and that variability probably had a broad impact on the development of civilization in ancient times, ...

Professor in Chemistry Nien-chu Yang, who studied organic photochemistry, the reactions induced by light in organic compounds, died Thursday, Oct. 2. Yang, a longtime resident of Hyde Park, was 80. In ...

Kenneth Warren, the Fairfax Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language & Literature, has been named to the newly created position of Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues.

During the Cultural Revolution in China, which lasted a decade (1966 to 1976), artists and intellectuals experienced a level of oppression that is difficult, even now, to comprehend. In an attempt to ...