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28 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).

Alan Gewirth

Alan Gewirth (November 28, 1912 – May 9, 2004) was an American philosopher, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of Reason and Morality (1978), Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications (1982), The Community of Rights (1996), Self-Fulfillment (1998), and numerous other writings in moral philosophy and political philosophy.

Broken Bride

Starting in November 2006, Broken Bride was produced as a staged theater piece by University Theater at the University of Chicago.

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).

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.

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.

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 Rago

He was also a Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Chicago jointly in the Divinity School and in the New Collegiate Division.

Herman A. Barnett

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pierre R. Graham

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

Sleepout

See College of the University of Chicago

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?").

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.

Wilbur S. Jackman

In 1904, Jackman was appointed dean of the growing School of Education of the University of Chicago (formerly the Cook County Normal School).

William Andrew Irwin

William Andrew Irwin (1884-1967) was Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago and Southern Methodist University, where his papers can be found today.

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.

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.


Adeline Masquelier

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993 studying under the prominent Africanist and Anthropologist Jean Comaroff, and has done her field work among the people of rural Niger in the Hausa town of Dogondoutchi.

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).

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.

Diamond–Dybvig model

The model, published in 1983 by Douglas W. Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip H. Dybvig, then of Yale University and now of Washington University in St. Louis, provides a mathematical statement of the idea that an institution with long-maturity assets and short-maturity liabilities may be unstable.

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.

Donald C. Peattie

He studied French poetry for two years at the University of Chicago and then transferred to – and graduated (1922) from — Harvard University, where he studied with the noted botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald.

Drake Group

Since 2004, they have given an annual award named after the University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Eugene Aserinsky

Eugene Aserinsky (May 6, 1921July 22, 1998), a pioneer in sleep research, was a graduate student at University of Chicago in 1953 when he discovered REM sleep.

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.

FGV Management

It maintains international partnerships with universities in Europe − ISCTE (Lisbon), IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) − and the United States − Ohio University, University of California, The University of Tampa, Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago −, where students can take part in short- and medium-term programs.

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.

Gastrointestinal pathology

That first evening session was organized by Jack Yardley from Johns Hopkins University, and included Henry Appelman (University of Michigan), Harvey Goldman (Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Bill Hawk (The Cleveland Clinic), Tom Kent (University of Iowa), Si-Chun Ming (Temple University), Tom Norris (University of Washington), and Robert Riddell (University of Chicago).

Harry Prosen

Canadian by birth, Prosen obtained his initial qualifications from the University of Manitoba in the 1950s, before spending part of his residency at the University of Chicago studying under a number of luminaries including Heinz Kohut.

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

van Buitenen contributed to the training of several able scholars in the USA, among them James L. Fitzgerald (Brown University), Walter O. Kaelber, Michael D. Willis, Bruce M. Sullivan (Northern Arizona University) and Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago).

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.

Jay Yuenger

Growing up in the diverse Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's south side (home to the University of Chicago), Yuenger was exposed to soul, jazz, folk, and the electric blues and attended Kenwood Academy.

Jesse Sheidlower

Sheidlower received an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Chicago and did graduate work at Cambridge University in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic.

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 Tolan

He was born in Milwaukee and received a BA in Classics from Yale (1981), an MA (1986) and a PhD (1990) in History from the University of Chicago, and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2001).

John Waterbury

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

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.

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.

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.

Maud Babcock

At other times in her professional life, she studied at the University of Chicago and schools in London and Paris; served as president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech; and, for twenty years, a trustee for the Utah State School for Deaf and Blind.

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.

Piney Woods Country Life School

More than 98 percent of Piney Woods' graduates go on to attend colleges, including Xavier University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Smith College, Harvard University, Vassar College, Tufts University and Amherst College.

Post-creole continuum

University of Chicago linguist Salikoko Mufwene explains the phenomenon of creole languages as "basilectalization" away from a standard, often European, language among a mixed European and non-European population.

Raymond Geuss

He taught at Princeton University, Columbia University, and University of Chicago in the United States and at Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany before taking up a lecturing post at Cambridge in 1993.

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.

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.

Steven Wilf

He also has held fellowships as John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University, Fellow in Comparative Legal History at the University of Chicago, Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law, and at The Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.

TeraGrid

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

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.

Thomas 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.

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 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.