On September 15, the University of Chicago Latinx Alumni Network hosted a reception honoring the bicentennial of Central American independence, partnering with all four Central American consulates who have representatives in Chicago: Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
The world's largest telescope will produce images up to 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. Click the link below to view these images
Tiktaalik was discovered in Devonian-aged rocks of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. This land is ideal for fossil hunting because unlike much of the rest of North America, there is very little vegetation due to the extreme winter temperatures, the short growing season, and the permafrost. With rock faces exposed, it's easy to spot fossils eroding out of the sediments.
A nearly 130-million-year-old small fossilized skull found in Utah is an Earth-shattering discovery in one respect.
Controlled ingestion of peanut protein could help build tolerance in peanut allergy sufferers.
As a founding member of the GMTO Corporation, the Astronomy & Astrophysics Department of the University of Chicago, serves on board that carries out the development and operation of the Giant Magellan Telescope facility.
Many states and municipalities, especially Illinois and Chicago, face huge public pension obligations and other spending commitments. The problem is all the more acute because the locales are already carrying substantial debt. Against this backdrop, two Nobel-winning University of Chicago economists recently brought together experts in the field to explore the crisis.
Forty years ago, Latin American art was largely unknown beyond Frida Kahlo or Diego Rivera. Today, Latin American artists feature in major museum exhibitions, sell their work for millions of dollars, and are increasingly studied by art historians, in part because of the efforts of Mari Carmen Ramírez, AM’78, PhD’89.
