Features - Archive

December 11, 2007

The Program on Political Institutions hosted an Author’s Roundtable on Thursday, December 6, to discuss the draft of Assistant Professor Christopher Berry’s book manuscript, Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multi-level Governments.   more >>

November 1, 2007

Several Harris School faculty members participated in a presidential forum in El Salvador focusing on security, democracy, and trade.   more >>

October 31, 2007

Economists gathered at the Gleacher Center on October 25 to address the importance of economics in environmental conservation, including how market mechanisms can be used to protect the world’s land and water.    more >>

October 31, 2007

James R. Flynn, professor emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, challenged the fundamental assumptions about the nature of intelligence at the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy’s first Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society.    more >>

October 30, 2007

Faculty and graduate students from across the University of Chicago gathered on Wednesday, October 24, at an inaugural conference for the Harris School’s new Program on Political Institutions (PPI).   more >>

October 10, 2007

Dr. Helen Caldicott, environment and anti-nuclear advocate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke at the Gleacher Center about the danger of nuclear power and its effects on the environment. Caldicott was named on of the most influential women of the 20th Century by the Smithsonian Institute, has written seven books, and won an Academy Award for her film, If You Love This Planet.

October 9, 2007

Research!America presented Tomas Philipson with the 2007 Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award for his paper entitled “Who Benefits from New Medical Technologies?” (co-authored with Anupam Jena, PhD’06). In their study, Philipson and Jena, a current medical student at the University of Chicago, estimate that HIV/AIDS drugs developed between 1980 and 2000 are worth nearly $1.4 trillion based on the resulting gains in patient survival. Read the study. Read the University of Chicago’s press release.

October 2, 2007

At this year’s Mentor Dinner, the keynote speaker was Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth, who discussed the United States’ diminishing integrity in human rights and how to reverse the trend.   more >>

September 19, 2007

The new Council Special Report about trade adjustment assistance, which is set to expire at the end of the month, argues against several proposed reform bills that would expand unemployment insurance. Instead, Robert LaLonde calls for shifting resources to wage insurance programs. Read the report.

June 8, 2007

Steve Karam, AM'90, Senior Urban Economist, The World Bank is 2007 Hooding Ceremony Speaker   more >>

May 24, 2007

Author Mai Yamani discusses democracy, women's rights, and Saudi Arabia on Chicago Public Radio's Worldview   more >>

March 13, 2007

Hans Blix on WBEZ's Worldview   more >>

March 6, 2007

Dalia Rabin met with Harris School students more >>

February 23, 2007

Alumnus named Wisconsin's Medicaid Director more (PDF) >>

January 18, 2007

Alumnus to head the American Medical Association more >>

January 18, 2007

Alumna named Ohio's Medicaid director more >>

January 18, 2007

Alumna discusses book Are Judges Political? on ABC News' Politics Live more >>

May 30, 2006

Panel Says Bioterrorism Hard to Defend, But Hard to Perpetrate more >>

May 15, 2006

Ariel Kalil on welfare, health, and children of immigrants more >>

January 9, 2006

Charles Wheelan's International Policy Practicum Class Visits India more >>