University of Chicago News

A young man's body has been pulled from Lake Michigan, not far from where a missing University of Chicago student is believed to have been when he vanished during last week's thunderstorms.

The search for a University of Chicago student from Albuquerque took a tragic turn Wednesday after a body was pulled from Lake Michigan.

When last we left the stand off between the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Daryl Issa, and the committee's senior Democratic Member, Elijah Cummings over the release of IRS Interview Transcripts, Issa had largely ignored Cummings request to begin to publicly release the full transcripts of recent interviews with IRS ... (more)

Wednesday's line-up will attempt to follow Tuesday evening's official opening party which celebrated President Shimon Peres' 90th brithday; today, Blair, Emanuel and Peres will get down to business.

If your wallet is suffering from bills due to expensive vision-related diseases, you are certainly not alone.

Walter Stewart Fitch of Oracle died June 2, 2013 following a debilitating fight with operative and post-operative complications as a result of a fall in early March.

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.