Education: UChicago time line
The University’s focus on the aims and methods of education has led to discussion, experiment, and innovation. Our time line notes a few milestones.
Incentives
An ambitious economic field experiment studies how financial incentives for students, teachers, and parents affect academic performance.
After the classroom
Students often continue to collaborate with professors after earning their degrees. Sometimes, as in these four examples, those relationships move beyond collegial to true professional and personal friendships.
Charter school principals
For the leaders of the University of Chicago Charter School, being in charge means being in the thick of change.
Charter school murals
The murals decorating the University of Chicago Charter School campuses tell stories of success.
Vivian Gussin Paley
Retired Laboratory Schools teacher Vivian Gussin Paley, PhB'47, writes about the importance of play in early schooling.
The future of PhDs
How can we better prepare PhD students for nonacademic careers?
Reclamation project
Karen Reimer, MFA’98, embroiders ordinary items to add rich new meaning to the familiar.
Microfinance
Microfinance was supposed to lead the poor out of poverty. Yet after a rash of borrower suicides in one Indian state, experts and governments question the industry’s success.
Craft and cooperation
In his latest book, sociologist Richard Sennett, AB’64, explores the social craft of cooperation.
Champagne toasts
For five decades, Stuart Rice and his doctoral students have had great chemistry.
Why we choke
Psychologist Sian Beilock studies what makes people choke under pressure and offers techniques to prevent those mental meltdowns.
Good deed repaid
In 1980s Baltimore, a family recalls an act of kindness—and finds a way to repay it.
Career ufologist
For 41 years Stanton Friedman, SB’55, SM’56, has traveled the world with a simple message: UFOs are real.
DNA nanotechnology
Nadrian Seeman, SB’66, uses DNA not to study biology but as a building block for nano-tiny structures.
Mansueto Library
... Reg Egg, Igloo: As quickly as students have dreamed up pet names for Mansueto, they’ve adopted the futuristic library as their own.
Bright passage
For one alumna, Mansueto’s opening recalls the change in Russian libraries since the Glasnost days.
1970s West Side photos
Alzheimer’s has erased the stories behind Lou Fourcher’s (PhD’71) images, but his photographs of a demolished West Side neighborhood have stirred memories in former residents.