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.
In the Media
Can democracy survive?
May 10, 2019
Law Professor and SIFK Faculty member Tom Ginsburg sits down with the UChicago Magazine to explore populism and other threats to our political system.In the Media
Should Athletes Be Allowed to Enhance Their Genes?
May 09, 2019
Marcy Darnovsky, a feature speaker at our 2020 Genetic Medicine and Eugenics Conference, weighs in on the ethics of genetic doping.In the Media
Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics.
April 10, 2019
SIFK core faculty member Tom Pashby appears on the Elucidations podcast.Why public distrust could prove ‘corrosive’ to U.S. democracy
April 03, 2019
Presidential scholar and SIFK faculty member William Howell discusses Trump, threats to governmentIn the Media
Why Is Silicon Valley So Obsessed With the Virtue of Suffering?
April 03, 2019
Ada Palmer helps provide insight on why the Stoics continue to be the dominant thought leaders impacting the tech world.In the Media
Why Trump’s decision to intervene in campus speech policies is so dangerous
April 03, 2019
SIFK Faculty Member Ada Palmer explains that while Trump might be encouraging unrestricted speech, he’s creating a method for others to do the opposite.In the Media
How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective
March 25, 2019
UChicago Historian and SIFK Faculty Member Ada Palmer talks censorship, from English printing in 1662 to the EU's 2019 Directive on Copyright.Announcements
Call for Papers: Genealogies of Knowledge II
March 18, 2019
Genealogies of Knowledge II will continue to explore how forms of mediation participate in the production and contestation of knowledge.News
Purely Evidence-Based Policy Doesn’t Exist
March 12, 2019
Nobel laureate and SIFK Professor Lars Peter Hansen on why data needs theory to be usefulSIFK Faculty Member John Goldsmith Publishes New Book: “Battle in the Mind Fields”
March 07, 2019
John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on an interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics.How did the Fetal Ultrasound Become Such an Iconic Image?
March 06, 2019
Margaret Carlyle and Brian Callender discuss the evolution of the image of the fetus. This blog is based off of their current exhibit on display in the Regenstein Library Special Collections.News
Politically Polarized Teams Produce Better Work
March 05, 2019
UChicago’s Knowledge Lab analyzed Wikipedia pages to find that collaborations with balanced ideological diversity and strong guidelines produce higher quality articlesSmaller teams produce more innovative research
February 14, 2019
University of Chicago researchers examined 60 years of publications and found that smaller teams were far more likely to introduce new ideas to science and technology.In the Media
SIFK Faculty Member William Howell on Trump’s State of the Union
February 14, 2019
Howell's Op-Ed contribution to the Hill discusses Trump's risk in pushing aside populism to occupy a grand stageNews
‘The Fetus in Utero’ exhibit reveals mysteries of the womb
February 12, 2019
The Chicago Tribune covers 'The Fetus in Utero' exhibit curated by SIFK members Margaret Carlyle and Brian Callender