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The Oriental Institute Museum is a world-renowned showcase for the history, art, and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The museum displays objects recovered by Oriental Institute excavations in permanent galleries devoted to ancient Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and the ancient site of Megiddo, as well as rotating special exhibits.
Amos Jerome Snell Hall and Charles Hitchcock Hall, more commonly known as Snell–Hitchcock, make up a residence hall at the University of Chicago. The dorm is on the northwest corner of the University's main quadrangles at the corner of 57th St. and Ellis Avenue. It is connected via emergency exits to Searle Chemistry Laboratory. Built in 1892 (Snell) and 1901 (Hitchcock), they are the oldest residence halls still in use as such on the university's campus. Snell is built in a Collegiate Gothic style, while Hitchcock is Prairie Style-inspired Gothic. The buildings feature fireplaces and exteriors of limestone, as well as hardwood molding and trim.Snell–Hitchcock is known for having a high level of community spirit and involvement, which are best displayed at the annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt. As of 2015, the Snell–Hitchcock team has won 14 of the 29 hunts to date, and holds the longest winning streak (four years) in the history of the game.Hitchcock House's mascot is the armadillo. Snell House's mascot is the tortoise, after being recently changed from a monkey.Hitchcock HallHitchcock was built in 1901, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is built in a Collegiate Gothic style, like Snell and most of the University of Chicago's campus, but has many Prairie School elements, such as stone corn husks instead of gargoyles and flat-roofed instead of gabled dormers.
The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. Formed under Baptist auspices, the school today lacks any sectarian affiliations.It is ranked number one in the field of the study of religion according to the National Research Council's measure of faculty quality in its survey of all doctoral granting programs in religious studies. Along with the departments of religious studies/religion at Harvard, Yale and Columbia University, it is responsible for training the majority of those appointed to tenure track positions in religious studies at American universities. The school offers courses leading to the Ph.D. in history of religions, anthropology and sociology of religion, religion and literature, history of Christianity, history of Judaism, Islamic studies, biblical studies, philosophy of religion, theology, religious ethics, and religion in America.DegreesThe University of Chicago Divinity School grants the following degrees: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Master of Arts in Divinity (M.A.)Master of Arts in Religious Studies (M.A.R.S.)Master of Divinity (M.Div.) The Divinity School also offers several dual degree programs:M.Div./A.M. with the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies A.M.R.S./J.D., A.M./J.D., M.Div./J.D., or Ph.D./J.D. with the University of Chicago Law School M.Div./A.M. with the School of Social Service Administration
Hours: http://hours.lib.uchicago.edu/ Locations: The John Crerar Library 5730 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 D'Angelo Law Library 1121 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Eckhart Library 1118-32 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 The Joseph Regenstein Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 The Social Services Administration Library 969 East 60th Street SSA, 1st Floor Chicago, IL 60637 By the Numbers, 2011-2012 Size - 9th largest research library in North America - 10.7 million volumes in print and electronic form - 48,252 linear feet of archives and manuscripts - 107.6 TB of University electronic archives and research data Facilities - 6 campus libraries with capacity to store approximately 11 million print volumes on campus - 205 miles of shelving - Average Mansueto book retrieval time: 7.5 minutes Services - 333,630 volumes circulated to 14,414 unique individuals - 12,359 Scan & Deliver requests - 5,287 UBorrow requests - 5.6 million successful responses to full-text article requests - 1,131,530 entries into Regenstein and 142,622 entries into Crerar - 9,610 visiting researchers unaffiliated with the University - 21,248 questions to reference librarians - 4,000+ attendees at training sessions Facebook visitors: Please note that the Library is collecting information on who likes its page in order to better serve users by providing relevant information.
The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is the newest library of the University of Chicago, named after alumni Joe Mansueto and Rika Mansueto. The library has a capacity of 3.5 million volumes under an elliptical dome. It was designed by Helmut Jahn.History and ConstructionMansueto Library, designed by Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn, consists of a glass-domed reading room, above high-density closed bookstacks which can be accessed through an automated storage and retrieval system. Mansueto allows the university to maintain the vast majority of its library holdings on campus in a centrally located facility, while creating space to accommodate new acquisitions for approximately 20 years.Planning for the library grew out of studies beginning in 2003, by a faculty task force because other campus libraries, primarily the Regenstein Library, were running out of space for new books. In 2005, the board of trustees approved building a high-density storage facility next to the Regenstein building. The choice of Helmut Jahn was made in February 2006. Construction began in 2008, and the building was dedicated in late 2011. Mansueto has won a number of prizes, including a Distinguished Building Award from the American Institute of Architects Chicago Chapter in 2011.FiguresFigures on the construction of the library: Height of the dome at the highest point: 35 feetLength: 240 feetWidth: 120 feetStorage capacity: 3.5 million volumesNorth American libraries with larger automated storage and retrieval systems: 0Typical book retrieval time: 5 minutes
Located in the basement of Swift Hall, Grounds of Being: The Divinity School Coffee Shop has been a coffee mainstay on campus for 50 years. Our current incarnation serves locally-prepared food, Colectivo (formerly Alterra) roasted, direct trade coffee, and natural and organic products from Testa Produce at reasonable prices. We are committed to sustainability, environmental care and community responsibility in myriad forms, efforts we redouble with our selective business partnerships. All proceeds are donated to the Divinity Students Association and are appropriated for student events, grants and scholarships.
History and Focus The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture was established in 1996 under the direction of Professor Michael Dawson. From its inception, faculty, students, and staff who have been involved with the Center have been committed to establishing a new type of research institute devoted to the study of race and ethnicity, one that seeks to expand the study of race beyond the black/white paradigm while exploring social and identity cleavages within racialized communities. Scholars affiliated with the Center have also endeavored to make race and ethnicity central topics of intellectual investigation at the University of Chicago by fostering interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public debate among students and faculty. Fundamentally, the Center is committed to producing engaged scholarship that rejects the false dichotomy between rigorous intellectual work and community activism. We seek, instead, to contribute intellectually challenging and innovative scholarship that can help people transform their thinking and their lives. Towards those goals, the Center has provided funding and other types of support for a number of projects initiated by faculty affiliated with the Center, graduate students, and visiting fellows.
The Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago was established in 1996, after a decade of faculty and student self-organization and now consolidates work on gender and sexuality, and in feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer studies. The center was renamed the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality in July, 2011 to more accurately represent our mission.
The Institute is named for two Nobel laureates in Economic Sciences, Gary Becker and his mentor, the late Milton Friedman — two Chicago iconoclasts who became icons in the field. Both applied the powerful tools of economics, grounded in rigorous empirical research, to a wide range of problems, producing enduring insights. The Institute advances that approach, supporting inquiry in some of the most important and complex issues we face today. The Institute organizes conferences and hosts visiting scholars, bringing together the world's best and most innovative researchers to discuss advances in economics and related fields. It supports inquiry on price theory and on the interaction of economics, public policy and the law, historical strengths at the University of Chicago. It is developing ongoing research initiatives on key issues: measuring systemic risk, addressing long-term deficits and fiscal imbalance, understanding the impact of human capital development on the macroeconomy, and family economics. The Institute is a collaboration of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Department of Economics, and the Law School.
The dominant ethos of the University of Chicago Divinity School -- toward the cultivation of new knowledge through research -- imbues both the Ph.D. and masters programs (M.A., M.Div., A.M.R.S.), which are taught by the same faculty. Many Divinity School faculty hold appointments in other departments or schools of the University, and we have a large cohort of associated faculty whose primary appointments range from the Medical and Law Schools to History, Classics and Anthropology. Divinity School students in turn take coursework throughout the University and encounter students from a range of departments in the over 100 courses offered by the Divinity School each year in the academic study of religion, across ten areas of study: Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, Bible, History of Christianity, History of Judaism, History of Religions, Islamic Studies, Philosophy of Religions, Religion and Literature, Religious Ethics and Theology. Our faculty and students engage in advanced research in pursuit of new knowledge about the human phenomenon of religion, as viewed from the broadest possible range of perspectives. We train students for all kinds of roles which require thinking and speaking about religion -- in general and specific religious communities, in traditions, texts, rituals, and other realities -- in a manner that is deeply informed, rigorously critical, and honestly engaged.
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The University of Chicago Interfraternity Sing is the oldest event of its kind in the world. Since 1911, Greek men and women have been gathering every spring to celebrate their collective UChicago experience.
Formally founded in 1990, the mission of the Franke Institute for the Humanities is to foster the development of innovative advanced research across the various disciplines of the humanities. The Franke Institute is designed to build upon the distinguished tradition of humanities research and instruction at the University of Chicago, to consolidate innovations and experiments that have been pioneered on this campus, and to provide a site for argument over new paradigms for research and teaching in the humanities. The Franke Institute sponsors faculty and dissertation-year residential fellowships, coordinates the Big Problems program, oversees the Center for Disciplinary Innovation, organizes the Franke Forum series, hosts the Wednesday faculty luncheon series, and co-sponsors over sixty conferences, lectures, and events annually.
The Institute of Molecular Engineering is at the forefront of an emerging field. This exciting new field involves the incorporation of synthetic molecular building blocks including electronic, optical, mechanical, chemical, and biological components into functional systems that will impact technologies from advanced medical therapies to quantum computing. The Institute is the largest new academic program that the University has started since the founding of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy in 1988. The Institute conducts research at the intersection of chemical, electrical, mechanical, and biological engineering as well as materials, biological, and physical sciences. The Institute’s work exploring innovative technologies in nanoscale manipulation and design at a molecular scale has the potential for societal impact in such areas as energy, health care, and the environment. The Institute of Molecular Engineering was created in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, which brings leading scientists and engineers and world-class facilities to the endeavor, including the Advanced Photon Source, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
The Center for College Student Success (CCSS) provides early academic exposure, transition support, and ongoing advising and resources to students in the College, especially those who are first in their family to attend college or from lower-income backgrounds. CCSS Advisers strive to help students navigate campus resources and foster an inclusive and supportive campus community that facilitates student success. CCSS programming includes opportunities to connect with peers, alumni, and faculty; information about how to best access campus resources; and strategies to navigate the College academically, personally, and financially.
(adapted from Wikipedia) Burton–Judson Courts (B-J/The Beej) is a dormitory at the University of Chicago located south of the Midway Plaisance. Designed by the Philadelphia firm of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary in Tudor Gothic style, it was completed in 1931 at a cost of $1,756,287. It is built around two lovely courtyards named after the university's second and third presidents. Burton-Judson contains six houses: Dodd-Mead, Chamberlin, Vincent, Coulter, Linn-Mathews, and Salisbury.