If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This video captures the presentation of the trophies and medals to the alumni, faculty and students who were honored as the 74th Annual Alumni Award recipients. For more information about this year's recipients, please visit: https://alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/alumni-association/alumni-awards. Or contact us at:...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This video captures the presentation of the trophies and medals to the alumni, faculty and students who were honored as the 74th Annual Alumni Award recipients. For more information about this year's recipients, please visit: https://alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/alumni-association/alumni-awards. Or contact us at:...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On June 8, 2013, members of the University of Chicago community, including alumni, staff, faculty, family, and friends, gathered to honor the 2013 alumni awards recipients. The awards presented to this diverse group of individuals are the Howell Murray Alumni Association Award, Young Alumni Service Award, Alumni Service Award,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On June 8, 2013, members of the University of Chicago community, including alumni, staff, faculty, family, and friends, gathered to honor the 2013 alumni awards recipients. The awards presented to this diverse group of individuals are the Howell Murray Alumni Association Award, Young Alumni Service Award, Alumni Service Award,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Focusing on the natural and biological sciences, humanities, and political and social sciences, leading scholars in these areas briefly look back at how their fields have evolved and interacted with other subjects over the past half century. They share their personal visions as to what opportunities and problems lie ahead....

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni reunite with old friends, participate in tradition, and celebrate our alma mater in the University’s annual singing celebration.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Focusing on the natural and biological sciences, humanities, and political and social sciences, leading scholars in these areas briefly look back at how their fields have evolved and interacted with other subjects over the past half century. They share their personal visions as to what opportunities and problems lie ahead....

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Absorption of incoming solar energy acts to heat a planet and its atmosphere. For the planet to maintain a constant temperature, this heating must be offset by an equal amount of cooling. This is accomplished by the emission of thermal radiation by the planet and the loss of this energy into outer space. The exchange of energy...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Alumni Emeriti Reunion Committee presents a dynamic discussion examining the College then and now and quo vadis, as it specifically relates to the environment on campus during 1950 to 1953.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. 2011 UChicago Alumni Public Service Award winner Marianna Tax Choldin, LAB’59, AB’62, AM’67, PhD’79, professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, joins other Graduate Library School alumni for Brunch with Books. Choldin has worked to improve library services in more than 70 countries, promoting new...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The amount of data now being produced in a wide range of fields is overwhelming our ability to analyze it. In this talk, Robert Grossman describes some of the new techniques and approaches that are being used to extract useful information from large amounts of data. Some of the approaches have been developed by such internet...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Art is thought of as, to varying degrees, communication, investigation, personal expression, belief, and therapy. Within our university’s rigorous and stimulating liberal arts environment, how is teaching art conceptualized and put into practice? As an internationally exhibiting artist and a professor at the University of...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago alumni, parents, and friends join President Robert J. Zimmer for a discussion about the ideas, people, and discoveries that shape the University and inform its impact on the global community.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. After long years of high inflation and economic stagnation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Brazil is experiencing political stability, a decrease in income disparity, and high economic growth, though not quite at the levels of India or China. What factors contributed to this economic renaissance in Brazil and, to some...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Mammalian young are born helpless and will only survive if their needs are detected and met by parents, typically mothers. In this talk, Peggy Mason discusses a fascinating recent finding that demonstrates empathic helping behavior in rats. This research adds to growing evidence that caring behavior is found in adult mammals of...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni reunite with old friends, participate in tradition, and celebrate our alma mater in the University’s annual singing celebration.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Throughout the academic year, UChicago’s Expose Yourself series gives graduate students the opportunity to learn about research taking place across disciplines. We invite alumni into the exciting conversations taking place between the genetics and humanities, between politics and design, between literature and cognitive science...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban centers. How do we create policies and programs that improve the lives of residents and optimize the operation of cities? This panel from across campus explores the power of data to inform urban policy decisions, how new modeling and computational methods can improve urban...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni reunite with old friends, participate in tradition, and celebrate our alma mater in the University’s annual singing celebration.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Throughout the academic year, UChicago’s Expose Yourself series gives graduate students the opportunity to learn about research taking place across disciplines. We invite alumni into the exciting conversations taking place between the genetics and humanities, between politics and design, between literature and cognitive science...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban centers. How do we create policies and programs that improve the lives of residents and optimize the operation of cities? This panel from across campus explores the power of data to inform urban policy decisions, how new modeling and computational methods can improve urban...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Disparities in health outcomes, quality of health care, and access to health services remain real and pressing problems for those living in underserved communities. Service learning at the University of Chicago provides a unique training ground for medical students interested in improving community health. Kohar Jones, Director...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Oriental Institute was selected by the US Department of State to partner with the National Museum of Afghanistan (NMA) to play a crucial role in the first-ever inventory of the museum’s holdings and assist in the conservation of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. Positioned on the Silk Road, Afghanistan was the nexus of...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Chicago Harris professor and deputy dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita speaks about political violence. Bueno de Mesquita is an applied game theorist whose research focuses on asymmetric conflict, including terrorism, insurgency, and rebellion. He talks about what an exciting new wave of social scientific research has to teach us about...