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1. Telescope gets major upgrade |
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Argonne, Fermilab, and UChicago combine expertise on a new ultrasensitive camera for the South Pole Telescope, to be installed later this year to plumb the cosmos's earliest history. |
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Learn why PSD's Wendy Freedman won the Dannie Heineman Prize. |
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Download early data from Fermilab's Dark Energy Survey. |
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Follow @Argonne, @Fermilab, and @UChicagoPSD. |
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2. Envision South Asia |
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A new exhibit at the Library explores visual representations of South Asia, including palm leaf manuscripts, historical maps, and never-shown artifacts from Special Collections. |
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View the associated web exhibit. |
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Learn about the Ramakrishnan Professorship in Sanskrit Studies. |
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See the top eight dead languages studied in the College. |
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3. Iowa caucus week |
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Before Monday's Iowa caucuses, the Law
School's Brian Leiter explained how Bernie Sanders, AB'64, is like FDR. |
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Plus: Learn why Nate Silver, AB'00, says Donald Trump came out of Iowa looking like Pat Buchanan. |
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See where Ana Marie Cox, AB'94, is bringing her political reporting. |
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Follow @UChiPolitics and @UChicagoGate. |
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Hear what really causes gridlock in Congress. |
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Read about activist Robert Pickus, AB'46, AM'57, who died in January. |
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4. You had me at "venison leg" |
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Hyde Park's A10 made the Chicago Tribune's list of the top 20 restaurants to try in this year's Chicago Restaurant Week. |
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Read about A10 and Yusho chef Matthias Merges. |
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Find the best $5 vegetarian lunch in Hyde Park. |
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5. Hard-earned financial sense |
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Behavioral scientist Anuj Shah found that the poor performed better on financial tests--because they must think about money all the time. |
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Get financial advice from @UChicagoSSA's @Harold Pollack. |
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See what @ChicagoBooth researchers are learning about gift cards. |
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