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34 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.

All About Anna

The US theatrical premiere was held on January 18, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, where it was included in the series Cinematic Sexualities in the 21st Century, arranged by Doc Films in collaboration with The University of Chicago Film Studies Center.

Broken Bride

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

Center for Khmer Studies

Some of the Consortium of the CKS’s numerous international partners and affiliates include: The American Association of Asian Studies, Asia Cultural Council, Cornell University, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, New York University, Smithsonian Institution, UCLA and the University of Chicago.

Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr.

a chairman and professor of the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago.

Como Orchards Summer Colony One-Room Cottage

The establishment of the Bitter Root irrigation district and construction of the Lake Como Dam and the Big Ditch Canal, both financed by the Chicago investor W. I Moody and supervised by F. D. Nichols, enabled promoters to attract new investors (particularly college professors from the University of Chicago and intellectuals) with hopes of establishing a huge apple-growing industry in the valley.

Daniel C. Gerould

Gerould began his teaching career at the University of Arkansas (1949–1951) and earned a Diplôme in French Literature from the Sorbonne in 1955 and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 1959.

Edward Chiera

He was faculty of the University of Pennsylvania until 1927, at which time he joined the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

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.

H. Bradford Westerfield

After a year at the University of Chicago he joined the Yale faculty in 1957, and remained there for 40 years.

Harmon Craig

Craig studied geology and chemistry at the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D. under Nobel Laureate Harold Urey with a thesis on carbon isotope geochemistry in 1951.

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.

Horace R. Byers

Byers joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1940, eventually helping establish the Department of Meteorology.

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

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).

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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.

James D. McCawley

He worked at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago from 1964 until his sudden and unexpected death.

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.

John Alexander Armstrong

Born in St. Augustine, Florida on 4 May 1922, he entered the University of Chicago at the age of 20 where he received both degrees of Banchelar and Master.

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.

Lawrence, Michigan

Werner Krieglstein, professor at Western Michigan University, University of Chicago fellow and Fulbright Scholar; lived in Lawrence where he founded the Whole Arts Theater, which later moved to Kalamazoo

Mashkan-shapir

Tell Abu Duwari was first noted, as site 639, in the Nippur survey of Robert McCormick Adams of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.

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.

Pierre R. Graham

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

Shola Inkosi

After the attack Shola briefly remained at the University of Chicago, where he met Kitty Pryde and Xi'an Coy Manh and helped them defeat a remnant of the wild Sentinels that had destroyed his home.

Sleepout

See College of the University of Chicago

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.

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 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.


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).

Ben E. May

He supported the Weizmann Institute; funded the research of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin; aided the investigations of Paul Dudley White, renowned cardiologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; and helped found a cancer research institute led by Charles B. Huggins, director of oncology research at the University of Chicago.

CompStat

Some, such as University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt, have argued that COMPSTAT's crime-reducing effects have been minor.

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.

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.

Ergani

Excavation of Çayönü, one of the largest and best-preserved sites of its kind was begun in 1963 by Istanbul University and the University of Chicago and continues today.

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.

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.

Helmut Röhrl

In the academic year 1958–1959 he was at the University of Chicago, became in 1959 an associate professor and subsequently professor at the University of Minnesota and was from 1964 a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Herman A. Barnett

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

Janet Lewis

Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters.

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.

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 Harkins

Later, when he took over as the head coach of Yale's baseball team, one of his players was long-time future college football head coach for the University of Chicago and the University of the Pacific, Amos Alonzo Stagg.

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).

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.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

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.

Murray Barnson Emeneau

The recipient of four honorary degrees — from the University of Chicago (1968), Dalhousie University (1970), the University of Hyderabad (1987), and Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University (1999) — as well as the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale and the Medal of Merit of the American Oriental Society.

Mwata Bowden

Mwata Bowden (born October 11, 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American jazz reeds player associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and an instructor in improvisational Jazz at the University of Chicago.

NAACP in Kentucky

William English Walling from Louisville, Kentucky (1877–1936), an American labor reformer and socialist educated at the University of Chicago, the Hull House and Harvard Law School, brought his interest in women's rights to his work with the American Federation of Labor and founded the National Women's Trade Union League.

Nilay Patel

In 2003, Patel obtained his degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago and in 2006 received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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.

Paul van Katwijk

He was appointed to the piano faculty of Christian College in Columbia, Missouri, then to similar positions at the University of Chicago and at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

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.

Ray Nelson

After graduation, he attended the University of Chicago (studying theology), then spent four years studying in Paris, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and other Beat Generation icons.

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.

Royden Loewen

Royden attended elementary school in nearby Blumenort, highschool at Steinbach Christian High School, and college at Mennonite Brethren Bible College where he earned his university degrees and fulbright at the University of Chicago.

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.

Storm Bull

In 1919, Storm Bull began his formal musical training at the Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago, the American Conservatory of Music, and the Chicago Musical College.

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.

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.

Victor deGrazia

He studied psychoanalysis and biochemistry at the University of Chicago and Lake Forest College and composition at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, but earned no degree.

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.