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Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
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Tom Ginsburg features in The College Fix’s article, ‘Free and open discourse’ forum launched at UChicago
October 05, 2023
A new forum dedicated to “free and open discourse” will launch this week at the University of Chicago. Professor Tom Ginsburg will serve as the faculty director of the Chicago Forum
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Prof. William G. Howell features in Voa news article, Vowing to Defend Democracy, Biden Hits Hard at Trump
September 29, 2023
Prof. William G. Howell discusses the impact of Trump's legal battles on voter opinions
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Erin Adams features in Nature.com’s article, CRISPR screens decode cancer cell pathways that trigger γδ T cell detection
September 07, 2023
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Brad Bolman features in CityBeat’s article, “Lloyd Library’s Newest Exhibit, ‘A Foray into Fungi,’ Explores the International (and Local) World of Fungi”
August 23, 2023
Bolman says a lot of why American mycologists are so prominent now is because of Lloyd’s early efforts and research
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James Evans features in MarketWatch’s article, Opinion: AI Could Be Just the Productivity Boost the Economy Needs
August 09, 2023
University of Chicago professors Jamshid Sourati and James Evans found AI-based systems could help predict future scientific discoveries, dramatically accelerating science in some domains.
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IFK Faculty Prof. Patrice Rankine is interviewed in the Uchicago New’s article, The classics are everywhere; most of us are likely just not looking for them’
August 02, 2023
In this interview with Patrice Rankine, a classics professor, he discusses how he makes the classics accessible and relevant to his students.
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Genevieve Lakier features in the New Yorker’s article, The Evolving Free-Speech Battle Between Social Media and the Government
July 17, 2023
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a ruling that restricted various government agencies from communicating with social-media companies. Genevieve helps demystify what this means
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Postdoctoral Research Jordan Bimm features in an AP new article discussing the behavior of water molecules in the context of recent footage from Chinese astronauts showing a stagnant glass of water
June 26, 2023
“Water molecules like to stick to glass and also to other water molecules more than they like to disperse in the air,” Jordan Bimm said
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IFK’s James Evans features in Nature’s article, Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?
May 25, 2023
James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, warns that efforts to deliberately find and promote scientific consensus in this way could be counterproductive
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IFK Faculty Rebecca Willet features in abc7chicago’s article, Looking at AI, ChatGPT: The possibilities and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
May 25, 2023
"At its heart, what it's doing is it's just modeling probabilities. What's the probability of the next word given all of your past words?" Willet said.
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IFK Faculty Genevieve Lakier features in The Washington Post’s article, The largely forgotten book ban case that went up to the Supreme Court
May 25, 2023
“The line that the court draws is a very fine one,” Lakier said — too fine to settle the matter for good.
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Ada Palmer features in Tor.com’s article, Jo Walton’s Reading List: April 2023
May 16, 2023
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IFK’s Jordan Bimm features in a Conde Naste Traveler’s article, Space Hotels—The Final Frontier for the Ultra Rich
April 27, 2023
As space tourism continues to grow, so does the potential need for somewhere to stay for those who make it there.Features
IFK Postdoctoral Researcher Katherine Buse features in BBC’s article on What The Last of Us, Snowpiercer and ‘climate fiction’ get wrong
April 19, 2023
According to Katherine Buse, there is a mismatch between how climate novelists imagine the future and how climate scientists forecast it.