Alison Sider
Chicago Booth economics professor and self-proclaimed “Chicago guy” Austan Goolsbee will be leaving Chicago for Washington, D.C., this January, President-elect Barack Obama announced last week. Goolsbee will request a leave of absence from the Chicago Booth, where he has served since 1995.
Louise Lerner
Student Government (SG) is interviewing three final candidates this week for a new administrative position that will take charge of all campus safety and security measures.
Claire B. Salling
U of C archaeologists working in Southeastern Turkey last summer discovered an Iron Age stele, a funereal stone, at a site in ancient Sam’al, now called Zincirli (pronounced ZIN-jeer-li). A monument to a royal official, who saw to its production prior to his death, the stone is the first evidence in the area to show a belief in the separation of the body and soul.
Louise Lerner
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Argonne is competing to win a $550 million contract from the government to build a new nuclear physics facility that would create beams of rare unstable atomic nuclei.
Tyler Warner
Activists urged the University to reconsider its investment in Hei Hotel and Resorts in a letter to the administration last week. The group claims the company, which does not hire union workers, mistreats its employees.
Adrian Florido
Chris Salata
Around 60 people gathered Wednesday to commemorate the life of Amadou Cisse one year after the 28-year-old chemistry graduate student was murdered near the intersection of East 61st Street and South Ellis Avenue.
