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unusual facts about The University of Chicago



All About Anna

The US theatrical premiere was held on January 18, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, where it was included in the series Cinematic Sexualities in the 21st Century, arranged by Doc Films in collaboration with The University of Chicago Film Studies Center.

Center on Halsted

Collaborators in the past have included the Museum of Contemporary Art, After School Matters, The Chicago Historical Society, The University of Chicago, The Chicago Architecture Foundation, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Garfield Park Conservatory, the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Cubs.

John Alexander Armstrong

Born in St. Augustine, Florida on 4 May 1922, he entered the University of Chicago at the age of 20 where he received both degrees of Banchelar and Master.

Sleepout

In the US, a sleepout is a tradition of The College of The University of Chicago where students would "sleepout" for their enrollment into their desired subjects of classes.

Zhenan Bao

She was enrolled at Nanjing University before transferring to directly into her Ph.D. in Chemistry from The University of Chicago.


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Abercrombie Lawson

After a year as assistant in botany Lawson spent 1901 at the University of Chicago with Professors John Merle Coulter and Charles Joseph Chamberlain in the new Hull laboratories and was awarded a Ph.D. (1901).

Alice Masaryková

After she finished her studies, Masaryk was invited to stay at the University of Chicago Social Settlement (UCSS) where she metJulia Lathrop, Mary McDowell and Jane Addams.

Allan Bridge

Born in Falls Church, Virginia, Bridge attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a Bachelors degree in fine arts.

Ann Marie Lipinski

She is chair of the board of the University of Chicago Charter School and serves on the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the boards of the University of Chicago Laboratory School, the Chicago Children's Choir and the Court Theatre.

Arthur Dempster

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886–1950), physicist at the University of Chicago and Manhattan Project participant

Berthold Ullman

He joined the faculty at Chicago and also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Iowa State University He taught at the University of Chicago from 1925 until 1944 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming Kenan professor of Latin and department chair.

Byron Trott

Raised in Union, Missouri, Trott received an AB from the University of Chicago in 1981 and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1982.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies/Masters in Public Policy - offered with the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago

Chicago Theological Seminary

Further the building that had served as a seminary for decades became home to the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, an institution named in part after Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a public figure controversial primarily among collectivist academics.

Code of Hammurabi

It is currently on display in The Louvre, with exact replicas in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the library of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches (Dutch: Theologische Universiteit Kampen voor de Gereformeerde Kerken) in The Netherlands, the Pergamon Museum of Berlin and the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

Codex Freerianus

W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts Of The New Testament, 1939, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Dario Maestripieri

Dario Maestripieri conducts research with rhesus macaques at the Caribbean Primate Research Center of the University of Puerto Rico as well as research with human subjects at the University of Chicago.

David Malcolm Renton

The observatory was a project of the University of Chicago, under the direction of Professor George E. Hale and Professor Edwin Frost.

Dilip Sankarreddy

He is a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore and a Full-Time MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Edward Martell

After receiving his Ph. D., he became a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and also took up a position at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Eric E. Whitaker

Whitaker received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Grinnell College in 1987, and in 1993 a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degreefrom the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Feel Tank Chicago

Its founders are Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University of Chicago who focuses on publics and affects; Vanalyne Green, a professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds; Debbie Gould, a sociologist of political feelings at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Patten, a writer and video artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rebecca Zorach, an art historian at the University of Chicago.

Frank B. Jewett

He graduated from the Throop Institute of Technology (later the California Institute of Technology) in 1898, and received the doctoral degree in physics in 1902 from the University of Chicago (IL).

G. Warren Nutter

After serving in U.S. Army Intelligence after the fall of Nazi Germany, he returned to finish his studies at the University of Chicago where he earned his B.A. (1946), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1949) in economics, which he studied with Milton Friedman and Frank Knight.

Grikor Suni

Ronald Grigor Suny, Emeritus Professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is a grandson of Grikor Mirzaian Suni.

Henry Schultz

His research was centered around a large program dedicated to the theory and estimation of private demand for goods functions, a project which started in the early 1920s, during his studies at the University of Chicago, and was completed shortly before his death with the publication of his highly influential book Schultz(1938).

Irving Kaplansky

After moving to the University of Chicago, he stopped playing for two decades, but then returned to music as an accompanist for student-run Gilbert and Sullivan productions and as a calliope player in football game parades.

James M. Redfield

He took his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1954, studied at New College, Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and returned to Chicago for his Ph.D. in 1961.

Joel Stern

He teaches at or has served on the faculties of several graduate business schools in America and abroad, including as a professor at Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, The University of Chicago, the University of Cape Town, Singapore Management University and Old Dominion.

Jonathan Hall

Jonathan M. Hall, professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Chicago

Kaegi

Walter Kaegi, historian and scholar of Byzantine History, and professor of history in the University of Chicago

Kate L. Turabian

The various editions of her style guide present and closely follow the University of Chicago Press's Manual of Style ("Chicago style").

Langdon Brown Gilkey

Gilkey attended elementary school at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, and in 1936 graduated from the Asheville School for Boys in North Carolina.

Laves

Gerhardt Laves (July 15, 1906 - March 14, 1993) a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Yale University doing fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages.

Lee Butler

Lee Pierce Butler (1884–1953), librarian at the University of Chicago

Leonid Hurwicz

Hurwicz received six honorary doctorates, from Northwestern University (1980), the University of Chicago (1993), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1989), Keio University (1993), Warsaw School of Economics (1994) and Universität Bielefeld (2004).

Midway Plaisance

The proximity of the Midway to the University gave the school's early football teams, the Maroons, a second nickname, "Monsters of the Midway", a name later applied to the Chicago Bears when the University of Chicago dropped its football program.

Morris Philipson

At the University of Chicago Press, Philipson became known for large-scale scholarly projects such as The Lisle Letters (a six-volume collection of 16th-century correspondence by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle), The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, a four-volume translation of the Chinese classic The Journey to the West, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s five-volume The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857.

Nadler

Judith Nadler, Jewish Romanian-American librarian and director of the University of Chicago Library

Oszkár Jászi

He came to the United States in 1925 and joined the faculty of Oberlin College, where he settled down to a career as a history professor and wrote a series of books, the best known of which is The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1929.

Paul Collard

After attending a lecture at the University of Chicago on solar power, Paul left to start Midway Labs a solar power company using Roland Winston's non-imaging optics to build concentrator solar electric panels.

Paul Jordan-Smith

He also enrolled part-time in graduate classes at the University of Chicago and developed a broad acquaintance among both literary and social activist circles, including lawyer Clarence Darrow, activist Emma Goldman, novelist John Cowper Powys, editor and publisher Margaret Anderson, writer Floyd Dell, Chicago Little Theatre founder Maurice Browne, and bookseller George Millard.

Peter Smagorinsky

After working as a hall monitor and substitute teacher in New Jersey (primarily the public schools in Trenton) after graduating from college in 1974, Smagorinsky began his teaching career as an English teacher in the Upward Bound/Pilot Enrichment Program under the direction of Larry Hawkins, in Hyde Park on Chicago's South Side, where the University of Chicago is located.

Raup

David M. Raup (b. 1933), American Paleontologist at the University of Chicago

Robert M. Strozier

While Dean at the University of Chicago, Strozier was a member of the advisory council of the National Student Association.

Robert Redfield

Redfield and his wife Margaret are the parents of Lisa Redfield Peattie, Professor Emerita, Department of Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James M. Redfield, a professor of classics at the University of Chicago and Joanna Redfield Gutmann (1930–2009).

Roger Arliner Young

In the fall of 1929, Young returned to the University of Chicago to begin her doctorate degree under the direction of Frank Rattray Lillie.

Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

Over the past three years, Fryer has collaborated with several other academics, including Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist and author of Freakonomics, Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist, and Edward Glaeser, an urban economist at Harvard.

Salvador Giner

Salvador Giner got his PhD in the University of Chicago and has postgraduate courses in the University of Cologne.

South Hadley, Massachusetts

George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists.

Steve Berry

R. Stephen Berry (born 1931), emeritus chemistry professor at the University of Chicago

Trajectory optimization

The first efforts were based on optimal control approaches which grew out of the calculus of variations developed at the University of Chicago in the first half of the 20th century most notably by Gilbert Ames Bliss.

Zeitlin

Judith T. Zeitlin, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago