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Mixing photos with audio from archive.org, an anonymous creative soul reimagines the lectures of former social thought professor Allan Bloom, PhB'49, AM'53, PhD'55.
Rhythm and Jews perform "My Freeze Ray (Laundry Day)" from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in University Church before Off-Off Campus's final performance of winter quarter.
Neuroscientist and psychology professor John Cacioppo answers audience questions at a lecture at Goethe-Institut Los Angeles about who gets lonelier: Americans or Italians? Extroverts or Introverts?
Award-winning dance instructor Angel Fabian Coria and his partner Paola Bordon perform for members of the Argentine Tango Club at a mid-February workshop in Ida Noyes.
During a Mandel Hall presentation last month called El Mexorcist 4: An Evening of Spoken Word Roulette, Artspeaks 5 fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña used acid Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, multilingualism, and activist theory to reflect on identity, race, sexuality, pop culture, and new technologies in the post-9/11 era: "I love to cross the border between low and high art."
From the Medical Center's Science Life blog of news and ideas in biomedicine: Irving Waxman, director of the Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, explains why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to detect and treat—and how screening methods may improve soon.
Members of the a cappella group Ransom Notes sing "You Know My Name" from the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale with soloist Ali Ekrem Yeşilkanal, '12, at their 2009 winter concert in McCormick Lounge.
Renaissance Society director Susanne Ghez describes the importance
of showing cutting-edge work by regional artists.
Voices in Your Head performed Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight"
at the International Championship of A Cappella in February.
Seth Lerer, PhD’81, took home this year's National Book Critics Circle award in criticism for his analyses of children's literature from Aesop’s fables to Harry Potter.
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At Chicago Booth's second annual "Working with Private Equity" speaker series last month, Professor Erik Hurst provided his insights into the state of the macroeconomy and the effect of policy choices now being made.
BadAstronomy.com's Phil Plait interviews NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, about the final Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.
David:
Now this is a story all about how
Three UChicago students from different towns
All came together and sat right there
To be on College Council sitting in big leather chairs
CK:
In Shengzhen, China, born and raised
In the Regenstein was where I spent most of my days
Stressing out, studying, studying in school
And eating some dumplings outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to some good
Started AIF in my neighborhood
I had some noodles and I cut my hair
I said, “These noodles are too hot! I’m running for College Council!”
Ted:
We dance with Bartlett workers day after day
We go to Ratner Center to lift some weights
When you see our names at the top of the ticket,
Check yes, click send, and we might as well kick it!
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Elizabeth Cheney, JD'96, defends interrogation methods—and talks about crashing her dad's car—during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe while debating with Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson about an op-ed he wrote about her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. (via Twitter @UChicagoLaw)
Professor Neil Shubin describes how new organs arise through evolutionary processes at a University of California lecture earlier this month.
Leon Botstein, AB'67, conducts the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra through a rehearsal performance of a concerto written by a Hungarian composer and Holocaust victim. The concerto had its Israeli premiere earlier this month.
"On both fronts—both domestic politics front and foreign national front—the Pakistani regime, the Zardari regime, is facing big legitimacy crises," says South Asian Islam and Pakistan historian Manan Ahmed, PhD'08, who closely follows current events in Pakistan, as well as how they get talked about in the United States.
Salsa performance group students in color-coordinated outfits—including Magazine intern Shira Tevah, '09, in blue—dance to Sonora Carruseles's Micaela at the University's Ballroom & Latin Dance Association's spring party last Saturday.
Chicago Booth professor Richard H. Thaler talks about real people making real choices based on nudges.
Through her short documentary film The Original Slam, director Melina Kolb, AB'06, shares the story of how Chicago's legendary Green Mill pub has become a home for poetic expression.
Philip Guziec, MBA'00—a derivatives strategist for Morningstar, Inc.'s individual investor business unit—defines derivatives and explains why they're considered to be the financial instrument at the center of the economic crisis.
Joshua Cooper Ramo, AB'92, (start watching at 39:57) tells Charlie Rose about the process of writing and putting together his new book, The Age of the Unthinkable.
Last Friday two pairs of dancers took advantage of the nice weather and performed an improv tango in the Law School's reflecting pool.
University of Chicago student a cappella group Voices in Your Head performs Rihanna's song "Shut Up and Drive."
Chicago-based forensic artist Josh Harker reconstructs the Oriental Institute mummy Meresamun's face using CT scan 3D imagery captured last fall at the Medical Center.
Areva Martin, AB'84, an attorney and the mother of an autistic son, cofounded the Special Needs Network to help needy families with developmentally disabled children. Since its launch three years ago, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit has helped provide resources and services to more than 15,000 families.
In honor of what would have been her 100th birthday, listen to Katherine Dunham, PhB'36, describe the importance of Orisha Shango, "one of the strongest of the African gods."
Physics professors Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel demonstrate principles of physics with explosive results.
John Callaway, founding director of the University of Chicago's William Benton Fellowship Program in Broadcast Journalism, died Tuesday. To honor his legacy, the Museum of Classic Chicago Television staff compiled this short collection of "outtakes and little pieces made just for fun."
Between one and two million Americans over the age of 65 is injured or mistreated by someone they depend on for care. Actor Ed Asner, X'48, speaks out about elder abuse in the documentary Saving Our Parents.
Four members of the Chicago Booth faculty chat on the phone like it’s 1999 in this video created for the business school's annual comedy variety show, Chicago Booth Follies.
Jake Grubman, '11
Started in Japan during the 1970s, the Lolita fashion movement has spread its bows, knee socks, and petticoats around the world. Four U of C undergrads document the city of Chicago's Lolita community in their short film Lolita in Transition.
Jake Grubman, '11
In 1933 University archaeologists working at Persepolis in Iran discovered tens of thousands of clay tablets with texts in numerous scripts and languages. Matthew Stolper, the John A. Wilson professor of Oriental studies at the Oriental Institute, discusses the history and significance of this collection.
Jake Grubman, '11
Watch Kurt Elling, X'92, and the Airmen of Note perform John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." Coltrane died on this day in 1967.
Actor David Issacson takes us through his strategy to shed the pounds
required to transform himself into Nobel Prize-winning author Saul
Bellow, X'39, for the critically-acclaimed play "Strauss at Midnight,"
now showing at the Chicago DCA Theater through Sunday.
Luke Fiedler, '10
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Auburn, AB'91,
talks at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival about the new challenges
presented in directing his first movie, The Girl In The Park,
starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth.
Luke Fiedler, '10
Founder of the political blog Wonkette and a national correspondent for Air America, Ana Marie Cox, AB'94, discusses how the Obama administration is changing the ways people receive news from and communicate with the White House.
Luke Fiedler, '10
Legal scholar Robert Bork, AB'48, JD'53, talks with Eugene Meyer, president of the Federalist Society, about his recently published book A Time to Speak.
Luke Fiedler, '10
Professor James Heckman discusses the importance of family life for the success in the classroom as part of the 2009 Chautauqua Institution Summer Lecture Series.
Jake Grubman, '11
The University's Balle Bhangra team performs a music and dance routine for the crowd at a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Rays.
Luke Fiedler, '10
Shaindel Beers, AM’00, reads her poem “HA!” from her first collection of poetry, A Brief History of Time (Salt Modern Poets, 2009). Beers uses a variety of styles in her collection to discuss life in rural America and social justice. >> Watch the video (YouTube)
Jake Grubman, '11
Philip Glass, AB'56, talks about minimalism and “ideology” in music during an informal, hour-long conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page.
Raúl Coronado, assistant professor of English, reps Hyde Park on Chicago Magazine’s list of the city of Chicago's top 20 singles. He’s on leave for the academic year, so the fawning will have to wait.
Jake Grubman, ’11
Matthew Crawford, AM’92, PhD’00, sits down with the BBC to discuss his transition from academia to motorcycle-ology, explaining the satisfaction of not being able “weasel your way out” of fixing a Ducati engine.
Jake Grubman, '11
Opening October 1, the Smart Museum's exhibit Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at the innovative forms of artistic creation taking place in the American heartland. Hear artists Artur Silva, Greely Myatt, and Deb Sokolow talk about their installations and performances.
Click on the image above to go to the Smart's Web site where the video is hosted.
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Carl Sagan, AB'54, SB'55, SM'56, PhD'60, sings about the universe with the help of Auto-Tune (and creative sound-blending by musician John Boswell).
Environmentalist and recent "alternative Nobel" recipient David Suzuki, AM'93, shares his energy-saving tips.
Music by Philip Glass, AB'56, accompanies "Geometry of Circles," an animation created thirty years ago for Sesame Street.
Economics professor Steven D. Levitt talks about controversial findings in his new book SuperFreakonomics, the followup to Freakonomics.
Listen to "Allegro inquieto" from music professor Easley Blackwood's Symphony no. 5, op. 34, as performed in 1992 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted by James DePreist.
Public television journalist Ray Suarez, AM'92, talks about immigration as it relates to business, politics, culture and demographic changes in our schools.
PBS Nightly Business Report's Susie Gharib interviews Chicago Booth professor Richard Thaler about behavioral finance and its practical implications.
Philip Roth, AM'55, sits down with Tina Brown to talk about writing and his latest novel, The Humbling. Watch one of the six segments from their chat:
Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien unveil the design for the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts.
