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Four University faculty members have received 2008 Guggenheim fellowships. They are among only 190 Guggenheim recipients chosen from 2,600 applicants in the United States and Canada.

Guggenheim fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The new fellows include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities. Many hold appointments in colleges and universities, with 89 institutions being represented by one or more fellows.

The four Chicago scholars who have received fellowships for research are Victor Friedman, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the College; Rachel Fulton, Associate Professor in History and the College; David Galenson, Professor in Economics and the College; and Donald Harper, Professor and Chairman of East Asian Languages & Civilizations.

Conference on Augustine to honor Tracy’s Christian theology research, teachings
David Tracy, one of the nation’s most influential Catholic theologians who recently retired after nearly 40 years at the University’s Divinity School, will be honored with a May conference focusing on Augustine of Hippo.

University Press awards Gossett’s Divas and Scholars
At the University Press’ annual award ceremony on Thursday, April 24, President Zimmer presented the 2008 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Philip Gossett for his 2006 book, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. Gossett’s book has been widely lauded for its dazzling account of how opera comes to the stage.

Family of former Lab Schools students provides $10 million gift
The Laboratory Schools have received their largest gift ever––$10 million from the family of Chicago business leader Earl Shapiro, to honor Shapiro, a member of the Laboratory Schools’ class of 1956.

CEMSE works to reverse negative trends in science, math education
A recent study shows that American students are no longer in the world’s top 10 in science by the time they reach eighth grade, and by age 15, they rank 28th globally in mathematics.

Rapid collisions of packed particles produce liquid state in collider, tabletop experiments
A paper published in 1883 reported how a stream of water hitting a narrow, flat, circular target becomes transformed into the thin, hollow shape of a bell. Would a stream of granular materials do likewise?

Berlin gift supports scholar studying the novel
The Division of the Humanities has received a $2 million gift to create its first distinguished professorship devoted to the study of one of the world’s most important and enduring genres: the novel.

Chicago in the News

Collegiate Scholars heading to top schools
Members of the third graduating class of the Collegiate Scholars Program are headed next fall to some of the best colleges in the country.

Metro editor will direct University News Office
The University has appointed veteran journalist Steven Kloehn of the Chicago Tribune as director of its News Office, the department primarily responsible for communicating the University’s mission and activities to the public. Kloehn’s appointment is effective Tuesday, May 27.

Former Secretary of State Albright will visit for Czech independence celebration
Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, will join University leaders and Czech dignitaries on Tuesday, May 13 for a series of events at the University, including a lecture at 5 p.m. in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Albright’s visit will mark the 90th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia and the special relationship between Czechs and the University.

Book aims to help international students adapt
As thousands of high school seniors across the country watch for their college acceptance letters this spring, thousands more around the world are making plans to come to the United States to join them.

Trilobites rich in evolutionary data
Paleontologist Mark Webster has hunted a group of odd-looking fossilized creatures called trilobites from the northwest highlands of Scotland to the deserts of the American Southwest.

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Updated May 1, 2008. Published by the University of Chicago News Office.