In the Media
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.
News
The Shortlist for the 2019 Tony Lothian Prize has been Announced
January 09, 2020
SIFK Postdoctoral Fellow Joe Stadolnik was shortlisted for the 2019 Tony Lothian Prize for his book in progress: "The Unsettled Life of Duarte Brandão."
In the Media
What Will the Next Decade Bring in Science?
January 09, 2020
UChicago scientists, including recent Meeting of the Minds participant Ayelet Fishbach, discuss the future of science in the new decade.
In the Media
They Wanted to Save Their 119-Year-Old Village. So They Got Rid of It.
November 26, 2019
A feud over local taxes turned into a referendum on government itself. But Election Day left residents as divided as ever. SIFK Core Faculty member William Howell comments.
In the Media
Introductions Have a Lasting Impact
November 26, 2019
How SIFK Core Faculty member Gary Tubb taught this first-year college student the importance of continually meeting new people and places for personal growth.
In the Media
A Philosopher and a Psychologist Walk into a Panel
November 26, 2019
UChicago Magazine covers the latest installment of SIFK and Booth's event series, A Meeting of the Minds: Business and the Human
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“We Have To Guard Ourselves Against Gradual Erosion Of Democratic Space”
November 12, 2019
SIFK Core Faculty Member Professor Tom Ginsburg discusses his new book with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Arvind P. Datar, and Payal Chawla
In the Media
Data Science Predicts Which Failures Will Ultimately Lead to Success
November 07, 2019
SIFK Core Faculty Member James A. Evans discusses how to fail the right way.
Features
SIFK Fellow Wins Modernist Studies Association Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection
October 22, 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow Isaiah Lorado Wilner won the Modernist Studies Association Prize with his book "Indigenous Visions" earlier this month.
In the Media
How Should Economics Shape Policy?
October 15, 2019
Chicago Booth and the University of Chicago's Lars Peter Hansen and Kevin M. Murphy discuss the challenges of translating academic research into policy advice
In the Media
The Impeachment Process: How It Works
October 01, 2019
SIFK Core Faculty Member William Howell weighs in on President Trump's possible impeachment
In the Media
Scientists taught these adorable rats to play hide and seek
September 16, 2019
UChicago neurobiologist Peggy Mason comments on the fun side of science.
In the Media
Classic Chicago Magazine discusses SIFK’s upcoming partnership with artist Kevin Pang
August 16, 2019
Walking into the Stevanovich Institute, surely one of the brightest most welcoming buildings on the University of Chicago campus, you are once again aware that learning can be pure joy.
News
Isaiah Lorado Wilner Awarded 2019 Article Prize from the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences
July 31, 2019
In Wilner’s hands, Franz Boas, a supposed producer of modern anthropology, is transformed into an interlocuter and translator of indigenous peoples‘ knowledge.
In the Media
Bad At Sports Episode 692: Audrius Plioplys
July 30, 2019
Chicago-based contemporary artist Audrius Plioplys, practicing neurologist and visual artist for more than 40 years, talks brain, soul, string theory, convergence, and art.
In the Media
A BETTER WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE DEBATE OVER FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS
July 25, 2019
In the nationwide debate over campus free speech, a lot of apparent disagreement derives from failing to separate the objects of study, and the habitat where study takes place.