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National Endowment for the Humanities supports digital project focused on...
Long before iPhones, Twitter and text messages, 18th-century thinkers already were worried about information overload. How, they wondered, could anyone possibly keep up with the surfeit of new books...
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UChicago’s Arts|Science Initiative awards five graduate collaboration grants
The University of Chicago’s Arts|Science Initiative has awarded five Graduate Collaboration Grants with project topics ranging from “fiction addiction” to compositions modeled on melting glaciers to a...
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French foreign minister to present Prof. Robert Morrissey with Legion of Honor
Laurent Fabius, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, will bestow the French Legion of Honor upon Prof. Robert Morrissey during a special ceremony May 11 hosted by...
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Jurist Mikva, arts leader Lee to receive Benton, Rosenberger medals
The University will award the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service to jurist and public servant Abner Mikva, JD’51, and the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to choral director and arts leader...
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University to bestow seven honorary degrees at 519th Convocation
The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to seven distinguished scholars during the 519th Convocation on Saturday, June 14 on the Main Quadrangle.The honorary degree recipients are...
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David Nirenberg receives prestigious 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced that David Nirenberg, dean of the Social Sciences Division, will receive the 2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for his book, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition....
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MLA honors Steinberg for work on Dante
The Divine Comedy may not seem like a conventional legal thriller, but it shares with that genre a preoccupation with justice and structured systems of punishment and reward.Prof. Justin Steinberg...
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Three faculty members receive American Council of Learned Societies fellowships
Three University of Chicago faculty members have received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. These prestigious fellowships allow scholars to spend six to 12 months on full-time...
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Two faculty members receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Two UChicago faculty members have received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships: Thomas Christensen, the Avalaon Foundation Professor in the Humanities; and Kenneth W. Warren, the...
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UChicago Press honors Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo for book on history of Mexico City
The University of Chicago Press has awarded the 2015 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, professor of history, for his book, I Speak of the City.President Robert J. Zimmer presented the...
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 12 members with UChicago ties
The newly elected class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences includes five UChicago faculty members and seven additional University alumni, including University Trustee Joseph...
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Edes Prize winner explores contrasts in Xilitla, Mexico
Composer, performer and multimedia artist Francisco Castillo Trigueros, PhD’13, refers to his winning proposal for the 2015 Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists as a song cycle...
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Professor Martha Nussbaum receives Inamori Ethics Prize for ‘exemplary...
Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, has been awarded the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at...
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Prof. Augusta Read Thomas receives prestigious composer and cultural awards
University Professor of Composition Augusta Read Thomas has won the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Composer’s Award for 2015-16, the oldest award of its kind in the nation honoring contemporary composers...
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Prof. Emeritus Michael J. Murrin to receive Norman Maclean Faculty Award
Michael J. Murrin, the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Divinity School, has...
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Prof. Martha Nussbaum wins Kyoto Prize
Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics and a world-renowned philosopher whose wide-ranging work often centers on questions of human vulnerability, has...
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Prof. Martha Nussbaum to deliver Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
World-renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 1 at the John F....
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Tyehimba Jess, AB’91, wins Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
downloadTyehimba Jess, AB’91, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Olio, his collection of original verse.Jess’ poems examine the lives of African-American performers from the Civil War up to...
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Three faculty members elected to American Philosophical Society
Three UChicago faculty members have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States.They are Lorraine Daston, visiting professor in the John U. Nef...
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Musician and educator Steve Coleman to receive Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal
The University of Chicago will award the 2017 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to Steve Coleman, a composer, saxophonist, educator and native of the city’s South Side.Coleman, who will receive the award at...
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Fourth-year wins writing fellowship for fiction exploring emigration
Fourth-year Elinam Agbo began at the University of Chicago as a pre-med student majoring in Biological Sciences. But her plans began to change with each creative writing workshop she took.“I’m in my...
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Wu Hung honored for helping create field of contemporary Chinese art history
In recognition of a career spent helping to create the field of contemporary Chinese art history in higher education, Prof. Wu Hung will receive one of the highest academic honors from the world’s...
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Lorraine Daston honored for research on the history of science
Lorraine Daston, a visiting professor in UChicago’s John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Department of History, has been awarded the Dan David Prize for her achievements in the research of...
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Four faculty members receive Guggenheim fellowships
Four UChicago faculty members and a visiting faculty member have won John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships: Alain Bresson, the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in...
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Playwright Martyna Majok, AB’07, wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Editor’s note: Playwright Martyna Majok, AB’07, was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living. In the award, the play is described as “an honest, original work that invites...
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