Making Disability Matter: English Grad Student Recognized with Bridge Builder Award
Stephen Pannuto, a graduate student in the Department of English Language and Literatures, was awarded the 2014 Bridge Builder Award for his role in “Disability Matters,” a series of public lectures and workshops focused on building a community interested in disability as a lived experience and a critical category.
For Archaeologists, Middle East Conflicts Create "Perfect Sandstorm" of Challenges
Conflicts in the Middle East have made archaeological work increasingly difficult, but the work must go on, scholars said at a recent conference organized with the help of the Oriental Institute.
Gift from Randy and Melvin Berlin to bring leading public intellectuals to campus
Beginning in 2014, the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago will welcome leading scholars, writers and creative artists from around the world through the new Randy L. Berlin and Melvin R. Berlin Family Lectures.
Mellon Foundation grant to support art history initiative with UChicago, Northwestern, Art Institute
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chicago Objects Study Initiative, an unprecedented, four-year, inter-institutional pilot effort, will provide graduate students from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University with new or significantly enhanced coursework and training in object-based art history research.