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39 unusual facts about University of Chicago


1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season

Penn defeated Chicago in a national championship playoff, 2 games to 1 (24-28, 29-18, 23-21).

1949 in archaeology

Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues in 1949 during his tenure as a professor at 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.

Arthur Code

After military service, Code received a master's degree and doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Chicago (without having received a bachelor's degree).

Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr.

a chairman and professor of the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago.

Dunkleosteus

After studying a biomechanical model of the fish's jaws, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago concluded that Dunkleosteus had the second most powerful bite of any fish (megalodon being the strongest).

Emma Guy Cromwell

In 1937 she was named State Librarian and Director of Archives, and arranged for the return of the Kentucky state constitution from the University of Chicago Archives.

Ergani

Excavation of Çayönü, one of the largest and best-preserved sites of its kind was begun in 1963 by Istanbul University and the University of Chicago and continues today.

Francis Joseph Mullin

Mullin served as a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago from 1939 to 1951, as well as serving as dean of students there for part of this time.

George Livingston Robinson

He spent his later years as a professor of Theology at the University of Chicago.

Geovisualization

The term visualization is first mentioned in the cartographic literature at least as early as 1953, in an article by University of Chicago geographer Allen K. Philbrick.

H. Bradford Westerfield

After a year at the University of Chicago he joined the Yale faculty in 1957, and remained there for 40 years.

Harold Richman

He continued his studies at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, where he received his M.A. in Social Welfare Policy in 1961 and his PhD in 1969.

Herman A. Barnett

Barnett was accepted to the University of Chicago, Meharry, and UTMB, becoming the first black student accepted to the school.

Horace R. Byers

Byers joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1940, eventually helping establish the Department of Meteorology.

Ignace Gelb

Born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), he earned his PhD from the University of Rome in 1929, then went to the University of Chicago where he was a professor of Assyriology until his death.

Jaipur School

Students have gone on to join Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cardiff University, Indian Institutes of Technology, National Defence Academy (India), and other engineering, medical, defence, liberal arts and business management programs.

James D. McCawley

He skipped several grades in school and entered the University of Chicago in 1954 at the age of 16 and soon gained early admission to the graduate school, from which he received an M.S. in mathematics in 1958.

James E. Miller

(1920–2010) was an American scholar and the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he completed his graduate work, taught, and served as chairman of the English department.

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.

John Harry Williams

He joined the University of Chicago with a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council during 1931–1933, then became an instructor of physics at the University of Minnesota.

Joseph Regenstein

Joseph Regenstein (1889–1957) was an American industrialist whose philanthropy benefited the city of Chicago, especially the University of Chicago, where the Regenstein Library is named in his memory.

Lecturer

When confusion arose about Barack Obama's status on the law faculty at the University of Chicago, the institution stated that although his title was "senior lecturer," the university uses that title for notable people, such as federal judges and politicians, who are deemed of high prestige but lack the time to commit to a traditional tenure-track position.

Malcolm Casadaban

Malcolm Casadaban (12 August 1949 – 13 September 2009) was Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and of Microbiology at the University of Chicago.

Mashkan-shapir

Tell Abu Duwari was first noted, as site 639, in the Nippur survey of Robert McCormick Adams of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.

NBC University Theatre

The adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's Free (July 9, 1948) featured a brief talk by the Dean of the University of Chicago.

Olaf Helmer

Helmer moved to the United States in 1937, first working as a research assistant to Rudolf Carnap at the University of Chicago, then as a teacher of mathematics.

Partha Niyogi

Partha Niyogi (July 31, 1967 – October 1, 2010) was the Louis Block professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Chicago.

Pierre R. Graham

After the war, he married his second wife, Lorraine Shurman, and received his Masters Degree from the University of Chicago.

Shola Inkosi

After the attack Shola briefly remained at the University of Chicago, where he met Kitty Pryde and Xi'an Coy Manh and helped them defeat a remnant of the wild Sentinels that had destroyed his home.

Sleepout

See College of the University of Chicago

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.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

In 1892 Chamberlin accepted the offer to organize a department of geology at the new University of Chicago, where he remained as a professor until 1918.

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

In 2003, the Toyota Technological Institute of Nagoya, Japan opened the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, jointly with the University of Chicago.

Uncial 069

The codex now is located at the Oriental Institute (2057) in University of Chicago.

Walter Reckless

He earned his Ph.D. in criminology in 1925 from the University of Chicago and that same year joined with sociologists Ernest Burgess and Robert Park in crime studies in the same place.

William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History

After Brendler's death in 1986, William W. Scott (a colleague of Nobel Laureate Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago) became curator of the museum.

William P. Lambertson

Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa (Kansas) University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Włodzimierz Kołos

In 1958 he went the University of Chicago, at a time when powerful computers were first becoming available for scientific work.


Bruce Lahn

Bruce Lahn is the William B. Graham professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago.

David L. Bartlett

He has also been on the faculty at schools such as American Baptist Seminary of the West and Graduate Theological Union, The Divinity School of The University of Chicago , Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary.

Dimensional Fund Advisors

The company was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield, both graduates of the University of Chicago's School of Business (now known as the Booth School of Business).

Dina Iordanova

Prior to her arrival at St. Andrews, she held positions at the Radio-TV-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin, a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Leicester in England.

Ernst Freund

from the University of Heidelberg (1884); a Ph. D. in political science from Columbia University (1897) He was professor of political science at the University of Chicago (1894–1902) and professor of law at Chicago (1903–32).

Eugene Rabinowitch

During World War II, Rabinowitch, a Russian émigré, worked in the Metallurgical Laboratory (or "Met Lab"), the Manhattan Project's division at the University of Chicago.

Furman University

In the South during recent years, Furman University graduates have earned more Ph.D. degrees than those from any other southern private liberal arts college, according to a survey conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.

Harry S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet

He published his first continuing comic strips in The Chicago Maroon while an undergraduate at the University of Chicago.

Henry C. Morrison

In 1912, the dean of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, asked him to be the guest speaker for a summer session in Chicago.

J. A. B. van Buitenen

Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 - 21 September 1979) was an Indologist at the University of Chicago where he was the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Jessica Nelson North

During college, North was the president of the University of Chicago Poetry Club and was the editor of the Adelphean and the History of Alpha Delta Pi.

Jessie Bernard

Together, the Bernards challenged the dominance of the University of Chicago in the field of sociology that ultimately saw their involvement in the creation of the American Sociological Review.

John Harkins

Later, when he took over as the head coach of Yale's baseball team, one of his players was long-time future college football head coach for the University of Chicago and the University of the Pacific, Amos Alonzo Stagg.

John Waterbury

University of Chicago Egyptologist Peter Dorman succeeded him as the 15th president of AUB on July 1, 2008.

Kartemquin Films

The organization was founded in 1966 by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter, three University of Chicago graduates who wanted to make documentary films guided by their principle of "Cinematic Social Inquiry." They were soon joined by Jerry Blumenthal who along with Gordon Quinn remains with the organization today.

Lawrence, Michigan

Werner Krieglstein, professor at Western Michigan University, University of Chicago fellow and Fulbright Scholar; lived in Lawrence where he founded the Whole Arts Theater, which later moved to Kalamazoo

Lipman Hearne

The two companies worked together on behalf of a number of clients, including the University of Chicago, the Institute of European Studies, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Locrians

James M. Redfield, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, in his book The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy, states that the Locrians of Epizephyrian Locri had a special way to treat the sex difference.

Louis Sass

He has been a visiting professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands, the University of Chicago, the University of Michoacan of San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico, at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, and at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in Paris.

Martha McClintock

McClintock then obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with Norman Adler in 1974 and obtained a faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago in 1976.

Mwata Bowden

Mwata Bowden (born October 11, 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American jazz reeds player associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and an instructor in improvisational Jazz at the University of Chicago.

NAACP in Kentucky

William English Walling from Louisville, Kentucky (1877–1936), an American labor reformer and socialist educated at the University of Chicago, the Hull House and Harvard Law School, brought his interest in women's rights to his work with the American Federation of Labor and founded the National Women's Trade Union League.

Nilay Patel

In 2003, Patel obtained his degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago and in 2006 received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Patrick Epino

Epino is a graduate of the University of Chicago and earned his MFA in Cinema from the film program at San Francisco State University.

Paul Tough

How Children Succeed built upon the work of James Heckman, University of Chicago economist and Nobel lauterate, that stated that education should focus more on promoting the psychological traits of "conscientiousness" among children at young ages rather than more IQ-related studies later in life.

Philipp Fehl

At the University of Chicago, he was friends with the now renowned philosopher, Seth Benardete and the comedians Severn Darden, Elaine May and Mike Nichols.

Ray Nelson

After graduation, he attended the University of Chicago (studying theology), then spent four years studying in Paris, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and other Beat Generation icons.

Robert F. Christy

Christy received his Ph.D. in 1941 and joined the physics department faculty of Illinois Institute of Technology, however he also spent time at the University of Chicago where he was recruited by Enrico Fermi to join the effort to build the first reactor, having been recommended as a theory resource by Oppenheimer.

Sheldon Pollock

Before taking his current position at Columbia University, Pollock was a professor at the University of Iowa and the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.

Storm Bull

In 1919, Storm Bull began his formal musical training at the Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago, the American Conservatory of Music, and the Chicago Musical College.

TeraGrid

It included $48 million for coordination and user support to the Grid Infrastructure Group at the University of Chicago led by Charlie Catlett.

The Call Up

With the line "It's 55 minutes past 11..." the song directly reference the Minutes to Midnight Doomsday Clock which was established and maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, which denotes by just how few minutes it is to midnight to what the impending threat of just how close the world is estimated to be to a global disaster, and it also includes a rejection of dead-end jobs ("who gives you work and why should you do it?").

Thomas Dale Stewart

After one year of research at University of Chicago under Julius Stieglitz, he returned to Berkeley as an instructor in the chemistry department, and became a professor there in 1935.

Timothy M. Devinney

He has held visiting appointments on the faculties of UCLA, Vanderbilt University, University of Chicago, London Business School, Copenhagen Business School, The Humboldt University of Berlin, Trier University, Hamburg University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and City University - Hong Kong.

Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg (born February 22, 1968) is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

William Johnson McDonald

At the time, the university had no faculty of astronomy, so in 1932 it formed a collaboration with Otto Struve at the University of Chicago, who supplied astronomers.

William Norman Guthrie

He was educated at the University of the South, and from 1889 to 1910 was lecturer and professor of literature at several universities, including the University of Chicago.