University of Chicago News

University faculties enjoy a form of freedom of speech called academic freedom that you will not find in any other institution.

A recent study finds that women who earn more than their potential spouse are more likely to have negative economic or family outcomes.

Caleb Cantres-Maldonado was all of 6 weeks old and just stirring from a nap when his mother propped him up and pointed him in the direction of a picture book.

Newswise - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the appointment of eight more outstanding international scientists as part of its Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs program.

Generally speaking - beyond some exceptions that we'll outline below - the burden of supplying information is indeed on the taxpayer when he is told by the IRS that he underpaid his taxes or when he faces an IRS audit.

Source: Washington Post President Obama has tapped John H. Thompson, the head of a private-sector research group with ties to the University of Chicago, to lead the U.S. Census Bureau, which has operated without a permanent director for about nine months.

Gun violence in Chicago is costing the troubled city a staggering $2.5billion a year according to research by financial group Bloomberg.

President Obama on May 23 announced nominations for the heads of two of the more data-intensive agencies in the federal government, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Want to get in beach-body shape for summer? Replace your mattress if it's seen better days.

Upon entering the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's Kovler Atrium, audiences will find rows of pews from University of Chicago's Bond Chapel.

He needed to give President Obama, the man he had publicly vowed to make a one-term president, a nominee for the Legal Services Corporation.

I'm a law professor, but I generally avoid mentioning this to casual acquaintances, since they're apt to flee upon discovering it.

Chelsea Leu, a third-year in geophysical sciences, spent spring break learning scientific field methods at San Salvador in the Bahamas with a group of other University of Chicago students and faculty members.

Although a study in 2012 suggested a cancer drug could reverse the thinking and memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease, three groups of researchers now say they have been unable to duplicate those findings.

Last year's finding that the drug bexarotene reduced the buildup of Alzheimer's-causing plaques may not legitimate, a new study finds.

OF ALL a firm's inputs, its workers' effort is perhaps the oddest. It is as vital as land, factories or machines, but much harder to control.

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.

Hillsdale College in Michigan hosts Mises Lectures in free-market economics and houses the library of Mises in the Ludwig von Mises Room in its Mossey Library.

For the college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor's degree long after graduation day, here's some consolation: At least it didn't take you six or eight years.

By Jamey Dunn Legislation that would end abstinence-only sex education in the state's public schools is headed to Gov.