If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Alumni Emeriti Webinar Committee welcomes Sara Ray Stoelinga, AB’95, AM’01, PhD’04, the Sara Liston Spurlark Director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, for a conversation about the history, challenges, and hopeful developments in American public school reform.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Alumni Emeriti Webinar Committee welcomes Sara Ray Stoelinga, AB’95, AM’01, PhD’04, the Sara Liston Spurlark Director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, for a conversation about the history, challenges, and hopeful developments in American public school reform.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. How do intestinal immune cells distinguish the trillions of normal, endogenous bacteria in the gut from pathogenic ones. How do normally harmless external dietary substances sometimes elicit a potentially life-threatening immune response in an individual? Pathologist Cathryn Nagler’s laboratory at the University of Chicago is pursuing several complementary lines of research aimed at examining these questions. She studies non-responsiveness to these stimuli in healthy individuals and the harmful responses in individuals with food allergies or inflammatory bowel disease.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. How do intestinal immune cells distinguish the trillions of normal, endogenous bacteria in the gut from pathogenic ones. How do normally harmless external dietary substances sometimes elicit a potentially life-threatening immune response in an individual? Pathologist Cathryn Nagler’s laboratory at the University of Chicago is pursuing several complementary lines of research aimed at examining these questions. She studies non-responsiveness to these stimuli in healthy individuals and the harmful responses in individuals with food allergies or inflammatory bowel disease.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On May 12, 2014 the Chicago Economics Society affinity group hosted a panel of UChicago's best alumni macroeconomic investors on Wall Street for an evening of investment philosophy, top ideas, and stimulating debate at the New York Athletic Club. Speakers included Dr. Todd Petzel (AB, MA, PhD), Chief Investment Officer of Offit Capital, John Scurci (MBA '80), Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer for Corona Associates Capital Management, LLC, Dennis Stattman, CFA (MBA '80), moderated by Rebecca Jarvis, chief business and economics correspondent for ABC News (B.A. 2003)
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. As part of its 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series, the University of Chicago Bay Area Alumni Club presents Peter Selz, AM'49, PhD'54, in conversation with his biographer Paul Karlstrom at the Mechanic's Institute in San Francisco March 13, 2013.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The UChicago Library is the only top research library in North America that is acting to keep its entire collection on campus for the next 20 years. By building the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, the University of Chicago challenges the all-too-common belief that great collections of books are becoming obsolete. The University believes instead that scholarship will thrive in an environment where print and electronic coexist, now and in the future.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The UChicago Library is the only top research library in North America that is acting to keep its entire collection on campus for the next 20 years. By building the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, the University of Chicago challenges the all-too-common belief that great collections of books are becoming obsolete. The University believes instead that scholarship will thrive in an environment where print and electronic coexist, now and in the future.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. What’s the best way to uphold a friendly rivalry? Broomball, of course. Students from Crown House and Alper House meet on the ice for the fourth annual Chairman’s Cup.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Students, professors, and librarians talk about the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library as a breathtaking space with research capabilities that place the University of Chicago at the forefront of scholarship worldwide. As a beautiful new addition to campus, the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library has quickly become a welcoming place that inspires students and scholars alike who conduct research and study there on a daily basis.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This summer, Joe Price, PhD'82, is travellng across the country, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at minor league ballparks, as part of his research on the ritual significance of the national anthem at baseball games.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. David Logan, AB'39, JD'41, a longtime supporter of the arts and investigative reporting who left an enduring legacy at the University of Chicago, has died. The prominent Chicago attorney and investor died of natural causes Jan. 22 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 93.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On January 18th, fellows and alumni volunteers from the University of Chicago Public Interest Program (UCPIP) gathered for an evening seminar. The keynote speaker was UCPIP board member Kelly Kleiman (AB '75, JD '79), who is a nonprofit consultant and widely-published freelance writer. Kelly gave a talk entitled "Nonprofit 101," providing an overview of current practices and challenges in nonprofit management.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On January 18th, fellows and alumni volunteers from the University of Chicago Public Interest Program (UCPIP) gathered for an evening seminar. The keynote speaker was UCPIP board member Kelly Kleiman (AB '75, JD '79), who is a nonprofit consultant and widely-published freelance writer. Kelly gave a talk entitled "Nonprofit 101," providing an overview of current practices and challenges in nonprofit management.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Sara Ray Stoelinga, Director of planning and Program Development with the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago, speaks about school improvement at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of the Chicago Insights series sponsored by the Chicago Society.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. After several years of a slowed economy and the recent devastating earthquake, Chile faces the dual challenge of enduring a long reconstruction and rekindling economic growth. This event will bring together four distinguished University of Chicago alumni who will offer their assessments of the current situation and policy prescriptions for the future as well as debate the merits of each other's ideas.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. After several years of a slowed economy and the recent devastating earthquake, Chile faces the dual challenge of enduring a long reconstruction and rekindling economic growth. This event will bring together four distinguished University of Chicago alumni who will offer their assessments of the current situation and policy prescriptions for the future as well as debate the merits of each other's ideas.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Line up behind your College, division, or school banner (children will have their own Young Maroon banner) at the Bartlett Quadrangle. The University bagpipers will lead the procession through the quads to Rockefeller Memorial Chapel for the 69th Annual Alumni Awards, which celebrates alumni achievement. This year's speaker will be Gary Becker, AM'53, PhD'55, University Professor in Economics, Sociology, and the Booth School of Business, whose research illuminates how economic decisions influence people's lives. A number of other distinguished alumni will receive awards. All are invited to join in the procession and attend Convocation.
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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Alumni Career Services Event