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Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of physics at Ball State University, has come under fire for an honors course called, "Boundaries of Science." The problem: the course appears to be little more than thinly veiled Christian evangelism.

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, Dallas B. Phemister Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine, has been named president-elect of the Chicago Surgical Society.

Libby Roether submitted this photo of her and her student models trying on fill-in pieces at TJ Maxx in Beachwood.

Gambling may be a way to boost tourism and tax dollars, but what about those who would do anything for a bet? One Chicago bank went belly-up when a former blackjack addict floated $10 million in checks.

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An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA Delayed transfer to the intensive care unit in hospitalized patients significantly increases the risk of dying in the hospital, according to a new study from researchers in Chicago.

The 16 tornadoes that dropped down on North Texas last week, ripping homes off their foundations and killing six people, was a prelude.

The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 320 kilometres per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

Talk by Esther Newton and performance by Holly Hughes. Thu 5/23, 5-6:30 PM University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th, room 122 gendersexuality.uchicago.edu free Esther Newton is a pioneering scholar of gay and lesbian history, but she and her partner, Holly Hughes, also lived it.

The city's all-powerful mayor was ignoring their pleas, so the public students of Chicago felt they had no choice but to walk out of school and march in protest.

The Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud, as it is called, enables researchers who are authorized by the National Institutes of Health to access and analyze data in The Cancer Genome Atlas without having to set up secure, compliant computing environments capable of managing and analyzing terabytes of data, download the data -- which can take weeks -- and ... (more)

Ball State University is looking into complaints by evolutionists that a science and religion class using material on intelligent design material is promoting Christianity to its students.

Each week, we offer an email Q&A with a local personality. Today, Paul Wood chats with 54-year-old Champaign resident Barbara McFadden Allen, the executive director of the academic consortium of Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago.

Tomorrow night, the University of Chicago's Doc Films will screen the Joseph H. Lewis noir Gun Crazy , one of the major works of classic B cinema and one of the most radical and thoroughly entertaining movies in American film history, period.

A collection of ancient Iranian artifacts, which had been recovered in foreign auctions, was showcased on Thursday in an exhibition at the National Museum of Iran.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that President Obama has narrowed his list of possible replacements for FBI Director Robert Mueller to two candidates.

"All movements go too far." Few writers are more quotable than Bertrand Russell, in or out of context, and few have a more colorful background.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota has gone from being one of the U.S. central bank's more hawkish characters to arguably its most dovish.

If you want to get a sense of how college students approach sex, the play Speak About It is a pretty good place to start.