Summary
Founded by Baptists in 1890, along with oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago occupies 211 acres in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Chicago. It has 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional and other students. Its athletic teams are called the Maroons. Although the university was founded by Baptists, it was nondenominational from the start and enrolled women and minorities at a time when many universities did not. The College, for undergraduates, has five divisions: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Humanities Collegiate Division; New Collegiate Division; Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Its six professional s...
Founded by Baptists in 1890, along with oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago occupies 211 acres in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Chicago. It has 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional and other students. Its athletic teams are called the Maroons. Although the university was founded by Baptists, it was nondenominational from the start and enrolled women and minorities at a time when many universities did not. The College, for undergraduates, has five divisions: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Humanities Collegiate Division; New Collegiate Division; Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Its six professional schools are: Divinity School; Graduate School of Business; Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Law School; Pritzker School of Medicine; and School of Social Service Administration. The four graduate divisions are: Division of the Biological Sciences; Division of the Humanities; Division of the Physical Sciences; and Division of the Social Sciences. Also connected with the university are the Adler Planetarium, the Argonne National Laboratory; the Chapin Hall Center for Children; the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Field Museum; the Toyota Technological Institute; the Yerkes Observatory; and the Oriental Institute. More than 70 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as faculty members, students or researchers.
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Construction exec led firm into rail business
Special to the Chicago TribuneAs deregulation of the U.S. railroad industry gathered steam in the late 1970s, construction executive Charles M. Williams had the vision and skills to make the most of the opportunity. "He led us in a new direction," said Marty Guimon, president of...Tags: Armed Forces, Heavy Engineering, Oak Park, Eric Williams, Health Treatments
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Thurber's world of wonders
You don't hear much about James Thurber (1894-1961) anymore, and it's not just because the glory days of the New Yorker as a humor magazine are many decades in the past. His work is perennially in print, and his "Writings and Drawings" have merited a...Tags: Books and Magazines, William Goldman, James Thurber, Cartoons, Fiction
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iPhone health applicaions have just about everything but the cold stethoscope
Chicago Tribune reporterCell phones can't actually get hot enough to pop popcorn, regardless of what you may have seen on YouTube. But some do have other unexpected abilities that just might help improve your quality of life. Dozens of new health and fitness Web applications...Tags: Google Inc., New Products, iPhone, Health and Safety at School
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Bleeding cash, Ford looks to Europe for help
AP Auto WritersBleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic. Ford reported its worst-ever quarterly loss Thursday and announced plans to bring over...Tags: Sales, Michigan, Retirement, Boeing Co., Kentucky
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NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'The Year My Parents Went on Vacation' *** 1/2 (Brazil; Cao Hamburger, 2008). This...Tags: Northbrook, Ginger Rogers, Bank of America Corp., Irene Dunne, Glenn Ford
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On schools, Obama is enemy of change
I know, because admirers of Sen. Barack Obama tell me, that this year's election poses a choice between a candidate who represents a fresh approach to problems and one who offers a dreary continuation of the status quo. That much I understand. What I...Tags: Schools, Political Candidates, John McCain, Elections, Colleges and Universities
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Teens at risk, from drugs and the state
Last Wednesday, Araceli Ramirez learned that she might lose her job. That didn't scare her. Ramirez is 30, lively, a Notre Dame graduate with a master's from the University of Chicago. Even if the new state budget kills the substance abuse program she...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Crimes, Gang Activity, Teen-agers, Drug Trafficking
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Educational psychologist Burton Faldet dies at age 79
Chicago Tribune reporterBurton Faldet, an educational psychologist who worked for many years with Science Research Associates, was a steady volunteer and board member for a wide spectrum of social service groups. Dr. Faldet, 79, died of cancer Wednesday, July 16, in...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Illnesses, Society, Mental Illness, International Business Machines Corporation
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Bush likely to push city's bid
Chicago Tribune reporterPresident Bush is likely to campaign on behalf of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid during the Beijing Summer Games next month, according to sources close to the bid. Such a step would represent a ratcheting up of the fervor with which countries compete for...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Political Candidates, International Olympic Committee, Elections, Multi-Sport Events
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Obama's great-uncle recalls liberating Nazi camp
Associated Press WriterCharles T. Payne had his first close brush with history at the end of World War II, when his infantry division liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp. Now 83, Payne is experiencing a second brush as the great-uncle of...Tags: Political Candidates, Elections, Colleges and Universities, New York, Health and Safety at School
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