Stuff We Like: Living the question, dead of the class, startling emissions, and envelope pushing economist

LIVING THE QUESTION
“College Presidents Pen Admissions Essays” (Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2009)
When Wall Street Journal editors turned the tables on the presidents of 10 top colleges and universities with an unusual assignment—answer an essay question from their own school’s application—University President Robert J. Zimmer responded.

DEAD OF THE CLASS
“Students Exposed to Careers in the Autopsy Lab” (Chicago Tribune, May 1, 2009)
Thirty 7th graders from Paul Revere Elementary School participated in the University of Chicago Medical Center’s “Best of the Best” program, an initiative started in 2003 for South Side students in grades 6-12.

STARTLING EMISSIONS
“Humans Halfway to Causing Dangerous Climate Change” (Wired Science blog, Wired, Apr. 29, 2009)
Wired bloggers dissect the highlights of University of Chicago geoscientist Gavin Schmidt’s recent paper in Nature—written with Oxford’s Myles Allen—in which they posit that climate change is going to be hard to avoid: “Unless emissions begin to decline very soon, severe disruption to the climate system will entail expensive adaptation measures and may eventually require cleaning up the mess by actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”

ENVELOPE PUSHING ECONOMIST
“The 2009 Time 100” (Time, May 11, 2009)
The annual issue of short essays on 100 of “the world’s most influential people” includes Roland Fryer, who as a postdoctorate fellow worked with Gary Becker, AM’53, PhD’55.

May 7, 2009

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