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The graduate students seek to improve wages and working conditions, including benefits, grievance procedures and support for international students.

About $100 million of that increased cost is due to “hyperinflation” since the project was announced

A growing list of medical schools are rejecting the rankings

The hospitals will now include in their names the title UChicago Medicine AdventHealth

Vintage Chicago Tribune offers a look back at events, places and people involved in shaping Chicago’s past, present and future, in ways both small and big.

Sitch's journey started as a 5-year-old girl playing on boys' teams.

VIrginia's championship city is once again hosting a pair of national title "final 4's".

Janel Mueller became chair of the U. of C.'s English department in the 1980s.

A University of Chicago course focusing on the "problem of Whiteness" sparked controversy after a student publicly raised his concerns about the course.

University of Chicago sophomore Daniel Schmidt shared a Tweet decrying the class with over 31,000 followers on social media.

The seven suspected incidents of students’ drinks being drugged occurred primarily off-campus and there is no clear pattern, according to the university.

The University of Chicago professor discusses his research on political violence in the U.S. and its implications as the midterm elections approach.

Ben Bernanke, the former Fed chairman, Douglas W. Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip H. Dybvig of Washington University in St. Louis were awarded the prize for research on banks and financial crises.

The quantum internet aims to use nature's smallest particles to share information in a manner that can't be hacked--and someday to link new quantum computers.

Most people say it's harder to own a home or raise a family these days, crimping their standard of living.

The University of Chicago's South Side Science Festival is an all-day, all ages event to highlight the importance of STEM education, careers in science, and understanding how science impacts daily life.

The following is a transcript of an interview with University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape that aired Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

Three Americans are among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize.

With students returning to campuses in just a couple of weeks, universities and colleges across the state are preparing for the spreading monkeypox virus, which could pose a unique risk to students because they live in close quarters and often have heightened sexual contact, experts say.

A Chinese University of Chicago student that had been missing since May and who was recently found spent over two months working at a charitable organization in Los Angeles, according to his family’s attorney.

After almost three months of being missing, a Chinese student at the University of Chicago has been found safe and reunited with his family, according to an email sent to students Friday.

Tucker Carlson on choosing a spouse: 'If she cries, marry her. If she yells at you, don't.'

A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. Two-thirds of Republicans and independents say the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like…

A doctor and leader from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had been named as the new head of University of Chicago Medicine.

Zimmer became chancellor last year. Prior to that, he was the university’s president for 15 years.

Local researchers have created one of the world’s largest networks for sharing quantum information — a field of science that depends on paradoxes so strange they’re the basis of science fiction stories.

The family of a missing University of Chicago student, Diwen Fan, 20, is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who may have information that would lead to his whereabouts. He hasn't been seen since May 5.

Three musical instruments including a 1758 violin were stolen from a town home in the South Loop Wednesday morning while a family of musicians was sleeping.

An Earthbound experiment is replicating the extreme heat found in galaxy clusters located in deep space using nearly 200 lasers.

Hiring picked up in January with some 678,000 new jobs, as the pandemic eased.

A crackdown on the Russian elite could help the situation in Ukraine and offer solutions to broader social problems.

A new analysis suggests a key reason why dirty air problems continued here while other cities saw clear skies for the first time in years: Pollution from diesel trucks and locomotives barely changed in the Chicago area, one of the nation’s major freight hubs.

A man was injured Tuesday after an on-duty University of Chicago police officer shot him in the Hyde Park neighborhood, school officials said.

Some of the country's most exclusive universities have been accused.

Browse all of our full transcripts from 2022 of "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan.

Amid a wave of COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant, dozens of colleges are making plans to move classes online for at least the first week of the semester.

The head of an oncology program at the University of Chicago was hit with federal charges Monday, accused of insider trading

College campuses are having to step up safety protocols as murder rates soar nationwide.

An increase in anti-Black sentiment has reportedly been observed at the University of Chicago after the fatal shooting of a Chinese international student in early November. Driving the news: Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng, 24, was fatally shot during a robbery in Hyde Park on Nov. 9. Three days later, Alton Spann, an 18-year-old Black man, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, as per CBS Chicago.

Chinese state influence and misguided responses to it expose the risks to free inquiry.

At least 200 University of Chicago students, many of them international, gathered at the campus’ Main Quadrangle Tuesday — a week after the fatal shooting in Hyde Park of Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng, a recent graduate — to demand further safety measures from the university.

18-year-old charged for the death of University of Chicago student

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office released bodycam footage of deputies arresting a 14-year-old shooting suspect.

Chicago police say they've arrested an 18-year-old man in this week's shooting death of a Chinese student near the University of Chicago's campus.

The fundraiser, which was created Wednesday night, had raised more than $20,000 of its $25,000 goal by Thursday afternoon.

Cash balance retirement plans provide benefits for affluent people who don’t need the government’s help to save for their golden years. Curbing them would be only fair.

Pape, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, discusses anti-government sentiment in U.S. with "Intelligence Matters" host Michael Morell.

Chicago hospitals seeing early rise in RSV cases among young children.

Flag-wearing loyalists turned out for the embattled Brazilian president this week. Moderate voters and investors are harder to keep onside.

The longer the central bank continues ultra-easy monetary conditions, the more the richest families benefit disproportionately.

A passenger rendered aid to a shooting victim on the Green Line who later died. He recalls the incident and pleads for something to be done to end such violence.

The University of Chicago survey found that cryptocurrency was more popular with underrepresented groups than traditional stock trading.

More than 1 in 10 Americans invested in cryptocurrency over the past year, according to a survey, a sign of the popularity of digital currencies.

University of Chicago Medicine is requiring its workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, making it at least the second Chicago-area hospital system to do so.

Mask and distancing restrictions may be relaxing across much of the country, but it’s been another tough semester on many college campuses, where COVID-19 spikes have meant even tougher measures.

Ending involuntary homelessness by 2035 is the goal for one advocacy group. On Friday, researchers focused on the factors that go into homelessness, particularly for children. It’s associated with increased secondary educational attainment. It’s associated with prevention of early pregnancy and parenthood,” said Dr. Amy Dworsky with the University of Chicago. According to the group, Times for Homes, a fifth of children live in poverty in America.

Most Americans are concerned at least somewhat by the potential for foreign interference in Novembers election, and a majority believes that Russian sought in 2016 to influence the outcome of that race. The extent of concerns about 2020 election interference breaks largely along partisan lines, with 68% of Biden supporters saying they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about foreign countries influencing how Americans perceive the candidates, according to the poll. Among supporters of President Donald Trump, 30% are extremely or very concerned, with 29% saying they are somewhat concerned. Foreign interference, or influence, could theoretically take many shapes. Austin Wright, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School, said it was striking that Americans are not more concerned by the threat of foreign interference given the range of dangers.