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January 20, 2015 | |
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| Must-reads, job listings, 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. Preparing emerging leaders | |
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| On a trip to South Africa, leaders from around the city of Chicago found common cause with young black women there. "These are problems that are plaguing the world, and it leaves me feeling like there's a lot I've got to do," says one participant in UChicago's Civic Leadership Academy. | |
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| See the Civic Leadership Academy's Class of 2016. | |
| Follow @UChiEngagement. | |
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| 2. Road rage: A legit brain disorder | |
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| A new study by UChicago scientists provides evidence that people with intermittent explosive disorder have altered brains. | |
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| Learn more about the science behind a bad temper. | |
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Follow @UChicagoMed and @ScienceLife. | |
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| 3. Women in computer science | |
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| Associate professor Shan Lu's research on software bugs, efforts to increase gender diversity in the Department of Computer Science, and the "first" computer bug. | |
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| Learn how the department's new chair will lead its expansion. | |
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| 4. Business-minded social sector | |
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| Chicago Booth now provides weekend MBA scholarships to government and nonprofit professionals, funded in part by trustee Joseph Neubauer's (MBA'65) family foundation. | |
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| Read career advice from Google's Banks Baker, MBA'05. | |
| Learn how to find a job in two hours. | |
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Follow @UChicagoCareers and @UChicagoAlumni. |
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| 5. Lloyd Rudolph, 1927-2016 | |
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| Political scientist Lloyd Rudolph's distinguished career was almost entirely in collaboration with his wife, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, who died in December 2015. | |
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| Revisit Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph's 1956 travel journal. | |
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| Lite of the mind | |
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| Face with tears of joy | |
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| UChicago linguist Jason Riggle on 2015's words of the year, including "identity," "-ism," and an emoji. | |
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| Find out who's winning the serial-comma debate. | |
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