The Million Neighborhoods is an initiative of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago to provide frameworks, tools, and data for mapping, planning, and coordinating solutions towards fulfilling the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Global Sustainable Development.
More than three million years ago, a distant cousin of ours called Australopithecus afarensis was walking around on two legs—making the species a key chapter in the human story. The study, lead by Anthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged, takes a close look at the foot of Selam, a 3.3-million-year-old female A. afarensis that died before the age of four.
The NigerHeritage project is an international effort to preserve and display the unique archaeological, paleontological, and cultural history of Niger in two new ground-breaking institutions.
Researchers, including Chris Blattman, conducted a randomized evaluation with the Government of Uganda to measure the impact of the YOP on young adults’ employment, income, and general well being.
Diseases of poverty persist in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The global becomes local, as CGH-affiliated faculty pursue research on conditions that impact the health of women and children not only in LMIC but also in neighborhoods within University of Chicago Medicine's catchment area on the city of Chicago's south and west sides.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in partnership with the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, has developed a one-of-a-kind executive education program in El Gouna that will enhance how the public and private sectors do business in Egypt.
Rabat: Middle Eastern Civilizations in Morocco Program
Photo by Anne Wang, '19
Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute have helped discover a lost ancient kingdom dating to the ninth to seventh centuries B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom once ruled by King Midas, in battle.
