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| January 18, 2017 | |
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| News, careers, events, and more for University of Chicago alumni, parents, families, and friends. | |
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| 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW | |
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| 1. Improving self-improvement | |
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| Already slipping up on your New Year’s resolutions? Try using a strategy of immediate rewards to reach long-term goals, suggest Chicago Booth researchers. More » | |
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| Revamp your finances with 13 tips from Harold Pollack. | |
| Find out if you really are what you eat. | |
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| 2. A medical approach | |
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| Epidemiologist and CureViolence founder Gary Slutkin, MD'75, is treating Chicago's homicide rate like a public health crisis. More » | |
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| Meet new adult trauma center head Selwyn Rogers. | |
| Watch Rogers discuss the trauma center, and learn more about his public health approach. | |
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| 3. Man in motion | |
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| SportsManias, an app for diehard fans founded by former UChicago football player Vicente Fernandez, AB'14, became the fastest-growing sports app on iTunes. More » | |
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| Check out Nate Silver's (AB'00) updated Super Bowl predictions. | |
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| 4. Age of enlightenment | |
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| In a new memoir, Divinity School alumna Claire Hoffman, AM'05, reflects on growing up in the Transcendental Meditation movement. More » | |
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| Read an excerpt from Greetings from Utopia Park. | |
| Share your memories of the weekly Divinity School lunches. | |
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| 5. Electrifying mystery | |
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| Disproving a long-held theory on static electricity, UChicago physicists have found we don't really know why our clothes stick together in the dryer. More » | |
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| Meet the innovators in Argonne's first entrepreneurship program. | |
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| AlumniU | |
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| Engage the life of the mind through free online courses, seminars, book clubs, career colloquiums, and more. | |
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| More events | |
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| Lite of the mind | |
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| Cold comforts | |
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| Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko, broomball, snowball fights--see photos of past and present Winter Quarter fun. More » | |
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| View highlights from last year's Kuvia. | |
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