Crossing Sonic Borderlands
Victor Friedman Honored for Scholarship and Professional Service
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) has honored Victor Friedman with the 2014 Distinguished Contributions Award.
Connecting Dickinson and Herbert: Strier Leads NEH Summer Seminar
This summer at UChicago Richard Strier led sixteen scholars through the works of two masters of lyric poetry in "George Herbert and Emily Dickinson," a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers.
Learning Through Play
Donning lab coats and pretending to be a group of time-traveling scientists in contact with the future would never qualify as a traditional teaching tactic. Nor would acting out a three-week sci-fi role-playing game along with 70 teenagers. But the team behind the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab believes such games can impart knowledge in ways that ordinary lectures can’t.
New Exhibit at Special Collections Unearths UChicago’s Research in Mexico
“Researching Mexico” explores the University's century-long tradition of research and exploration in Mexico by displaying documents, photographs, and artifacts of various expeditions made by UChicago scholars.
