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 ...

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, ...

Twelve distinguished scholars have received faculty appointments at the University this year and have joined their new Chicago colleagues in the Biological Sciences Division, the Division of the ...

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 ...

Although he performed both of his prize-winning experiments in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory on the University’s campus early in the 20th century, his work continues to receive accolades in the 21st ...

Jay Berwanger, football star at the University and first winner of the Heisman Trophy, died Wednesday, June 26, of lung cancer. He was 88 years old. To football aficionados, Berwanger is well known as ...

Nearly 200 people filled a tent at the Wednesday, Sept. 24 groundbreaking, where the signature photo to symbolize the start of construction of a new building was taken. Posing with shovels in hand are ...

One student spent 10 weeks chronicling human rights abuses in South Africa; another seeks to forge new ground applying political philosophy to the intellectually disabled; a third aims to spark ...

A scene from the film Andrei Rublev, made by the late, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. A scene from the film Andrei Rublev. Christ the Savior by Andrei Rublev, ca. 1410 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) ...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences have elected to their memberships four University faculty members. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in ...

Wayne Booth, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and one of the 20th century’s most prominent and influential literary critics, died at his ...

A model of a newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, which fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals, is depicted in what scientists believe to be the animal's environment about ...