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.
Starting in November 2006, Broken Bride was produced as a staged theater piece by University Theater at the University of Chicago.
He was an instructor at the University of Chicago 1893-95 and then professor of Biblical literature at Brown.
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.
After studying a biomechanical model of the fish's jaws, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago concluded that Dunkleosteus had the second most powerful bite of any fish (megalodon being the strongest).
He was faculty of the University of Pennsylvania until 1927, at which time he joined the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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.
from the University of Heidelberg (1884); a Ph. D. in political science from Columbia University (1897) He was professor of political science at the University of Chicago (1894–1902) and professor of law at Chicago (1903–32).
He earned a BA from Stanford in 1967 and, after a year at Cornell, he began work towards a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago.
The term visualization is first mentioned in the cartographic literature at least as early as 1953, in an article by University of Chicago geographer Allen K. Philbrick.
In 1912, the dean of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, asked him to be the guest speaker for a summer session in Chicago.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
He joined the University of Chicago with a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council during 1931–1933, then became an instructor of physics at the University of Minnesota.
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.
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.
The adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's Free (July 9, 1948) featured a brief talk by the Dean of the University of Chicago.
University of Chicago linguist Salikoko Mufwene explains the phenomenon of creole languages as "basilectalization" away from a standard, often European, language among a mixed European and non-European population.
In the “Sex in America” surveys (1999 and 2008), University of Chicago researchers found that between adolescence and age 59, approximately 30% of men reported having experienced PE at least once during the previous 12 months, whereas about 10 percent reported erectile dysfunction (ED).
With the line "It's 55 minutes past 11..." the song directly reference the Minutes to Midnight Doomsday Clock which was established and maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, which denotes by just how few minutes it is to midnight to what the impending threat of just how close the world is estimated to be to a global disaster, and it also includes a rejection of dead-end jobs ("who gives you work and why should you do it?").
The codex now is located at the Oriental Institute (2057) in University of Chicago.
He earned his Ph.D. in criminology in 1925 from the University of Chicago and that same year joined with sociologists Ernest Burgess and Robert Park in crime studies in the same place.
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 (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.
He was educated at the University of the South, and from 1889 to 1910 was lecturer and professor of literature at several universities, including the University of Chicago.
Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa (Kansas) University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
In 1958 he went the University of Chicago, at a time when powerful computers were first becoming available for scientific work.
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Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues in 1949 during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago.
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.
The school offers co-curricular and extracurricular activities: the yearbook club, Model United Nations in which students attend a conference in the United States hosted by the University of Chicago, chess, folkloric groups, U.S. Beta Club, etc.
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).
Bruce Lahn is the William B. Graham professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago.
Some, such as University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt, have argued that COMPSTAT's crime-reducing effects have been minor.
The company was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield, both graduates of the University of Chicago's School of Business (now known as the Booth School of Business).
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.
Since 2004, they have given an annual award named after the University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins.
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.
He published his first continuing comic strips in The Chicago Maroon while an undergraduate at the University of Chicago.
Barnett was accepted to the University of Chicago, Meharry, and UTMB, becoming the first black student accepted to the school.
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).
Under the leadership of Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman, he supported the creation of the Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development at the University of Chicago.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The two companies worked together on behalf of a number of clients, including the University of Chicago, the Institute of European Studies, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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.
McClintock then obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with Norman Adler in 1974 and obtained a faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago in 1976.
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.
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.
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.
Partha Niyogi (July 31, 1967 – October 1, 2010) was the Louis Block professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Chicago.
How Children Succeed built upon the work of James Heckman, University of Chicago economist and Nobel lauterate, that stated that education should focus more on promoting the psychological traits of "conscientiousness" among children at young ages rather than more IQ-related studies later in life.
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.
At the University of Chicago, he was friends with the now renowned philosopher, Seth Benardete and the comedians Severn Darden, Elaine May and Mike Nichols.
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.
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.
In the US, a sleepout is a tradition of The College of The University of Chicago where students would "sleepout" for their enrollment into their desired subjects of classes.
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.
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.
After one year of research at University of Chicago under Julius Stieglitz, he returned to Berkeley as an instructor in the chemistry department, and became a professor there in 1935.
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.
In 2003, the Toyota Technological Institute of Nagoya, Japan opened the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, jointly with the University of Chicago.
With EES and then with his firm Campus Facilities Associates, Rovetch did management and planning studies for the University of Chicago, City University of New York, Ohio Board of Regents, Rutgers, California State University, Iowa State University, and other institutions.
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.