Word: chicagoã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...considered for the presidency of MIT in 2004, the top job at Boston University in 2005, and was a finalist in the University of Chicago??€™s presidential search last spring, according to a source close to the provost...
Since it was filed Tuesday, the brief has made a large splash in legal circles principally because two well-known conservatives—Steven G. Calabresi of Northwestern University and Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago??€”joined in the brief...
...America as important as Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub of the University of Chicago. Wilson—who left Hyde Park for Cambridge a decade ago—and Taub conduct sociology in the classic Chicago style: sending well-trained graduate students into Chicago??€™s diverse neighborhoods to probe the city’s complex race, class, and social interactions...
First, the authors note in their acknowledgments that the data from the study was gathered during Wilson’s time as the head of the University of Chicago??€™s Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. But according to the biography posted on Wilson’s Harvard Web site, he left the center in 1996, meaning that the surveys are at least a decade...
...been a time of tremendous urban renewal in Chicago, both within the municipal government and among the city’s neighborhoods. While it is unlikely that any of the neighborhoods chosen by Wilson and Taub have seen significant gentrification, the references to the Board of Education—Chicago??€™s mayor took over the schools in 1995, appointing a CEO whose central administration is now responsible for most everything—seem antiquated, as do mentions of Chicago??€™s notorious housing projects, which have largely been demolished...