University of Chicago News

The Great Lakes Brewing Company is trying to recreate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian brew using only clay pots and wood spoons.

Local chemical signals released by fat cells in the mammary gland appear to provide a crucial link between exposure to unrelenting social stressors early in life, and the subsequent development of breast cancer, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the July 2013 issue of the journal Cancer Prevention Research .

Researchers, scientists and other medical professionals from all over have descended upon San Francisco this week for the Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting .

While more men are staying at home and excelling at fatherhood, movies and TV still portray such dads as bumbling, emasculated weaklings, writes Soraya Roberts.

Springfield High graduate Dylan Tan, 18, wears a T-shirt given to him after being accepted into Harvard.

The family of a University of Chicago student who vanished during a powerful storm last week was intending on Monday to review surveillance videos from restaurants, bars and shops near Lake Michigan, hoping for a glimpse of the missing man.

Last week, in Nice, France, I was privileged to participate, along with 30 scholars, mostly scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the universe was designed, or at least fine-tuned, to make life, especially intelligent life.

CHICAGO - Five days after 20-year-old University of Chicago student Austin Hudson-Lapore was last seen, his disappearance is still shrouded in mystery, reported CBS Chicago .

Mir Ali, M.D., Ph.D. has joined the Rezin Orthopedics and Sports Medicine team. He will begin seeing patients July 1, 2013.

MIT will soon be able to tap into the book collections of yet another top institution when the University of Chicago joins Borrow Direct , a partnership that allows for the sharing of library materials between member institutions, this fall.

Bernie Sahlins died yesterday, at 90, in Chicago, the city he made a hotspot for comedy talent through the revolutionary work of Second City.

The ability to distinguish between odors declines steadily with age, but a new study shows that African-Americans have a much greater decrease in their sense of smell than Caucasians.

For a little while last week, the most emailed item on The New York Times website was Robert Hershey's fine obituary for the economic historian Robert Fogel, of the University of Chicago.

When William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago , proposed to add a law school to the new university in 1902, he entrusted the project to Ernst Freund, a political-science professor, former practicing lawyer and well-known expert on police power and the free-speech rights of dissidents.

Six men are dead and at least 29 other people have been wounded in gun violence across the city since Friday afternoon.

The Chicago-based American Library Association will hold the ALA 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition in McCormick Place on the Chicago lakeshore from Thursday, June 27, 2013 to Tuesday, July 2, 2013.

As the director of both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the metaLab Harvard , he typically spends his days grappling with the urgent questions of the wired world, but right now, his most pressing concern is more concrete.

More than monetary success, those who came to say goodbye to the Class of 2013 at John Stark Regional High School yesterday hoped the graduates would find real happiness in the little things and in service to others.

He's the poet laureate of frat boys, the founder of a new genre dubbed "Fratire."

University of Chicago economist and 1995 Nobel laureate Robert Fogel had a long and productive life before he died Tuesday, so I don't consider his death to be tragic.