University of Chicago News

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.

David Steinberg arrives at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan.

In early May, Professor Robin Chazdon, a tropical ecologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was one of 18 scientists from around the world summoned to a special committee on tropical forest ecology and climate change at the Royal Society and St.

An interview with Scott Allard, an associate professor at the University of Chicago and a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

This knowledge, they say, is critical to making accurate predictions and informing policymakers of how species are likely to be impacted by rising temperatures.

Research into genetic features of pulmonary fibrosis by physicians and scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine may lead to improved treatment of this deadly lung disease, according to a paper published online by JAMA.

Leo Strauss had Donne Trotter's number. Strauss was the University of Chicago professor who coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum .

Unless you decided to go on an Internet-free sabbatical in the past week there's a good chance you've heard something about Kanye West's sixth album, Yeezus , which comes out June 18.

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.

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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