University of Chicago

Not to be confused with University of Illinois Chicago.

The University of Chicago

Latin: Universitas Chicaginiensis
Motto	Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (Latin)
Motto in English	"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched"
Type	Private research university
Established	1890 (1890)
Founder	John D. Rockefeller
Accreditation	HLC
Academic affiliations	AAU COFHE NAICU URA Space-grant
Endowment	$10 billion (2023)
President	A. Paul Alivisatos
Provost	Katherine Baicker
Academic staff	2,859
Administrative staff	15,949 (including Medical Center)
Students	18,452
Undergraduates	7,559
Postgraduates	10,893
Location	Chicago , Illinois , United States 41°47′23″N 87°35′59″W
Campus	Large city, 217 acres (87.8 ha) (main campus) Warren Woods Ecological Field Station, Warren Woods State Park, 42 acres (17.0 ha)
Other campuses	Beijing Delhi Hong Kong London Luxor Paris
Newspaper	The Chicago Maroon
Colors	Maroon
Nickname	Maroons
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division III – UAA MWC CCIW
Mascot	Phil the Phoenix
Website	uchicago.edu

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood near large areas of public gardens and Lake Michigan.

The university is composed of the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago and four graduate research divisions: Biological Science, Humanities, Physical Science, and Social Science, which also include various organized institutes. In addition, the university includes eight professional schools, which also house academic research: the Booth School of Business; Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Divinity School; Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies; Harris School of Public Policy; Law School; Pritzker School of Medicine; and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. The university has additional campuses and centers in London, Paris, Beijing, Delhi, and Hong Kong, as well as in downtown Chicago.

University of Chicago scholars have played a major role in the development of many academic disciplines, including economics, law, literary criticism, mathematics, physics, religion, sociology, and political science, establishing the Chicago schools of thought in various fields. Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory produced the world's first human-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Chicago Pile-1 beneath the viewing stands of the university's Stagg Field. Advances in chemistry led to the "radiocarbon revolution" in the carbon-14 dating of ancient life and objects. The university research efforts include administration of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as the Marine Biological Laboratory. The university is also home to the University of Chicago Press, the largest university press in the United States.

The university's students, faculty, and staff has included 99 Nobel laureates. The university's faculty members and alumni also include 10 Fields Medalists, 4 Turing Award winners, 52 MacArthur Fellows, 26 Marshall Scholars, 53 Rhodes Scholars, 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 20 National Humanities Medalists, 29 living billionaire graduates, and 8 Olympic medalists.

History

Main article: History of the University of Chicago

Albert A. Michelson, Professor of Physics and first American Nobel laureate, delivers the second Convocation Address in front of Goodspeed and Gates-Blake Halls, with President William Rainey Harper, professors, and trustees in attendance, July 1, 1894.

Early years

Further information: Old University of Chicago

The University of Chicago was re-incorporated as a coeducational institution in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society, using $400,000 donated to the ABES to supplement a $600,000 donation from Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, and including land donated by Marshall Field. While the Rockefeller donation provided money for academic operations and long-term endowment, it was stipulated that such money could not be used for buildings. The Hyde Park campus was financed by donations from wealthy Chicagoans such as Silas B. Cobb who provided the funds for the campus's first building, Cobb Lecture Hall, and matched Marshall Field's pledge of $100,000. Other early benefactors included businessmen Charles L. Hutchinson (trustee, treasurer and donor of Hutchinson Commons), Martin A. Ryerson (president of the board of trustees and donor of the Ryerson Physical Laboratory) Adolphus Clay Bartlett and Leon Mandel, who funded the construction of the gymnasium and assembly hall, and George C. Walker of the Walker Museum, a relative of Cobb who encouraged his inaugural donation for facilities.

The Hyde Park campus continued the legacy of the original university of the same name, which had closed in the 1880s after its campus was foreclosed on. What became known as the Old University of Chicago had been founded by a small group of Baptist educators in 1856 through a land endowment from Senator Stephen A. Douglas. After a fire, it closed in 1886. Alumni from the Old University of Chicago are recognized as alumni of the present University of Chicago. The university's depiction on its coat of arms of a phoenix rising from the ashes is a reference to the fire, foreclosure, and demolition of the Old University of Chicago campus. As an homage to this pre-1890 legacy, a single stone from the rubble of the original Douglas Hall on 34th Place was brought to the current Hyde Park location and set into the wall of the Classics Building. These connections have led the dean of the college and University of Chicago and professor of history John Boyer to conclude that the University of Chicago has, "a plausible genealogy as a pre–Civil War institution".

William Rainey Harper became the university's president on July 1, 1891, and the Hyde Park campus opened for classes on October 1, 1892. Harper worked on building up the faculty and in two years he had a faculty of 120, including eight former university or college presidents. Harper was an accomplished scholar (Semiticist) and a member of the Baptist clergy who believed that a great university should maintain the study of faith as a central focus. To fulfill this commitment, he brought the Baptist seminary that had begun as an independent school "alongside" the Old University of Chicago and separated from the old school decades earlier to Morgan Park. This became the Divinity School in 1891, the first professional school at the University of Chicago.

Harper recruited acclaimed Yale baseball and football player Amos Alonzo Stagg from the Young Men's Christian Association training school at Springfield to coach the school's football program. Stagg was given a position on the faculty, the first such athletic position in the United States. While coaching at the university, Stagg invented the numbered football jersey and the huddle. Stagg is the namesake of the university's Stagg Field.

The business school was founded in 1898, and the law school was founded in 1902. Harper died in 1906 and was replaced by a succession of three presidents whose tenures lasted until 1929. During this period, the Oriental Institute was founded to support and interpret archeological work in what was then called the Near East.

In the 1890s, the university, fearful that its vast resources would injure smaller schools by drawing away good students, affiliated with several regional colleges and universities: Des Moines College, Kalamazoo College, Butler University, and Stetson University. In 1896, the university affiliated with Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois. Under the terms of the affiliation, the schools were required to have courses of study comparable to those at the university, to notify the university early of any contemplated faculty appointments or dismissals, to make no faculty appointment without the university's approval, and to send copies of examinations for suggestions. The University of Chicago agreed to confer a degree on any graduating senior from an affiliated school who made a grade of A for all four years, and on any other graduate who took twelve weeks additional study at the University of Chicago. A student or faculty member of an affiliated school was entitled to free tuition at the University of Chicago, and Chicago students were eligible to attend an affiliated school on the same terms and receive credit for their work. The University of Chicago also agreed to provide affiliated schools with books and scientific apparatus and supplies at cost; special instructors and lecturers without cost except for travel expenses; and a copy of every book and journal published by the University of Chicago Press at no cost. The agreement provided that either party could terminate the affiliation on proper notice. Several University of Chicago professors disliked the program, as it involved uncompensated additional labor on their part, and they believed it cheapened the academic reputation of the university. The program passed into history by 1910.

1920s–1980s

Some of the University of Chicago team that worked on the production of the world's first human-caused self-sustaining nuclear reaction, including Enrico Fermi in the front row and Leó Szilárd in the second

In 1929, the university's fifth president, 30-year-old legal philosophy scholar Robert Maynard Hutchins, took office. The university underwent many changes during his 24-year tenure. Hutchins reformed the undergraduate college's liberal-arts curriculum known as the Common Core, organized the university's graduate work into four divisions, and eliminated varsity football from the university in an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics. During his term, the University of Chicago Hospitals (now called the University of Chicago Medical Center) finished construction and enrolled their first medical students. Also, the philosophy oriented Committee on Social Thought, an institution distinctive of the university, was created.

Money that had been raised during the 1920s and financial backing from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the school to survive through the Great Depression. Nonetheless, in 1933, Hutchins proposed an unsuccessful plan to merge the University of Chicago and Northwestern University into a single university. During World War II, the university's Metallurgical Laboratory made ground-breaking contributions to the Manhattan Project. The university was the site of the first isolation of plutonium and of the creation of the first artificial, self-sustained nuclear reaction by Enrico Fermi in 1942.

It has been noted that the university did not provide standard oversight regarding Bruno Bettelheim and his tenure as director of the Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children from 1944 to 1973.

In the early 1950s, student applications declined as a result of increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood. In response, the university became a major sponsor of a controversial urban renewal project for Hyde Park, which profoundly affected both the neighborhood's architecture and street plan. During this period the university, like Shimer College and 10 others, adopted an early entrant program that allowed very young students to attend college; also, students enrolled at Shimer were enabled to transfer automatically to the University of Chicago after their second year, having taken comparable or identical examinations and courses.

Front page of Chicago Maroon breaking the news of the university's segregationist off-campus rental policies

The university experienced its share of student unrest during the 1960s, beginning in 1962 when then-freshman Bernie Sanders helped lead a 15-day sit-in at the college's administration building in a protest over the university's segregationist off-campus rental policies. After continued turmoil, a university committee in 1967 issued what became known as the Kalven Report. The report, a two-page statement of the university's policy in "social and political action," declared that "To perform its mission in the society, a university must sustain an extraordinary environment of freedom of inquiry and maintain an independence from political fashions, passions, and pressures." The report has since been used to justify decisions such as the university's refusal to divest from South Africa in the 1980s and Darfur in the late 2000s.

In 1969, more than 400 students, angry about the dismissal of a popular professor, Marlene Dixon, occupied the Administration Building for two weeks. After the sit-in ended, when Dixon turned down a one-year reappointment, 42 students were expelled and 81 were suspended, the most severe response to student occupations of any American university during the student movement.

In 1978, history scholar Hanna Holborn Gray, then the provost and acting president of Yale University, became President of the University of Chicago, a position she held for 15 years. She was the first woman in the United States to hold the presidency of a major university.

1990s–2010s

View from the Midway Plaisance

In 1999, then-President Hugo Sonnenschein announced plans to relax the university's famed core curriculum, reducing the number of required courses from 21 to 15. When The New York Times, The Economist, and other major news outlets picked up this story, the university became the focal point of a national debate on education. The changes were ultimately implemented, but the controversy played a role in Sonnenschein's decision to resign in 2000.

From the mid-2000s, the university began a number of multimillion-dollar expansion projects. In 2008, the University of Chicago announced plans to establish the Milton Friedman Institute, which attracted both support and controversy from faculty members and students. The institute would cost around $200 million and occupy the buildings of the Chicago Theological Seminary. During the same year, investor David G. Booth donated $300 million to the university's Booth School of Business, which is the largest gift in the university's history and the largest gift ever to any business school. In 2009, planning or construction on several new buildings, half of which cost $100 million or more, was underway. Since 2011, major construction projects have included the Jules and Gwen Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, a ten-story medical research center, and further additions to the medical campus of the University of Chicago Medical Center. In 2014 the university launched the public phase of a $4.5 billion fundraising campaign. In September 2015, the university received $100 million from The Pearson Family Foundation to establish The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Pearson Global Forum at the Harris School of Public Policy.

In 2019, the university created its first school in three decades, the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

On April 29th, 2024, students at the University of Chicago set up an encampment on the University's main quad as a part of the nationwide movement in support of Palestine at institutions of higher learning across the country. The encampment was cleared by the University of Chicago Police Department on May 7th.

Campus

Main campus

The campus of the University of Chicago, from the top of Rockefeller Chapel. The Main Quadrangles can be seen on the left (west), the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa and the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics can be seen in the center (north) and the Booth School of Business and Laboratory Schools can be seen on the right (east), as the panoramic is bounded on both sides by the Midway Plaisance (south).

The main campus of the University of Chicago consists of 217 acres (87.8 ha) in the Chicago neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Woodlawn, approximately eight miles (13 km) south of downtown Chicago. The northern and southern portions of campus are separated by the Midway Plaisance, a large, linear park created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed the university as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.

Aerial shots from the University of Chicago campus

View of university building from the Harper Quadrangle

The first buildings of the campus, which make up what is now known as the Main Quadrangles, were part of a master plan conceived by two University of Chicago trustees and plotted by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb. The Main Quadrangles consist of six quadrangles, each surrounded by buildings, bordering one larger quadrangle. The buildings of the Main Quadrangles were designed by Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and other architectural firms in a mixture of the Victorian Gothic and Collegiate Gothic styles, patterned on the colleges of the University of Oxford. (Mitchell Tower, for example, is modeled after Oxford's Magdalen Tower, and the university Commons, Hutchinson Hall, replicates Christ Church Hall.) In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, the University of Chicago Quadrangles were selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).

Many older buildings of the University of Chicago employ Collegiate Gothic architecture like that of the University of Oxford. For example, Chicago's Mitchell Tower (left) was modeled after Oxford's Magdalen Tower (right).

After the 1940s, the campus's Gothic style began to give way to modern styles. In 1955, Eero Saarinen was contracted to develop a second master plan, which led to the construction of buildings both north and south of the Midway, including the Laird Bell Law Quadrangle (a complex designed by Saarinen); a series of arts buildings; a building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the university's School of Social Service Administration, a building which is to become the home of the Harris School of Public Policy by Edward Durrell Stone, and the Regenstein Library, the largest building on campus, a brutalist structure designed by Walter Netsch of the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Another master plan, designed in 1999 and updated in 2004, produced the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center (2003), the Max Palevsky Residential Commons (2001), South Campus Residence Hall and dining commons (2009), a new children's hospital, and other construction, expansions, and restorations. In 2011, the university completed the glass dome-shaped Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which provides a grand reading room for the university library and prevents the need for an off-campus book depository.

The site of Chicago Pile-1 is a National Historic Landmark and is marked by the Henry Moore sculpture Nuclear Energy. Robie House, a Frank Lloyd Wright building acquired by the university in 1963, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as well as a National Historic Landmark, as is room 405 of the George Herbert Jones Laboratory, where Glenn T. Seaborg and his team were the first to isolate plutonium. Hitchcock Hall, an undergraduate dormitory, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Campus of the University of Chicago
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  Snell-Hitchcock, an undergraduate dormitory constructed in the early 20th century, is part of the Main Quadrangles.
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  Rockefeller Chapel, constructed in 1928, was designed by Bertram Goodhue in the neo-Gothic style.
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  The Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences was built in 1969.
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  The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, opened in 2003 and designed by Cesar Pelli, houses the volleyball, wrestling, swimming, and basketball teams.

Safety

In November 2021 a university graduate was robbed and fatally shot on a sidewalk in a residential area in Hyde Park near campus; a total of three University of Chicago students were killed by gunfire incidents in 2021. These incidents prompted student protests and an open letter to university leadership signed by more than 300 faculty members.

Satellite campuses

The university also maintains facilities apart from its main campus. The university's Booth School of Business maintains campuses in Hong Kong, London, and the downtown Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. The Center in Paris, a campus located on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, hosts various undergraduate and graduate study programs. In fall 2010, the university opened a center in Beijing, near Renmin University's campus in Haidian District. The most recent additions are a center in New Delhi, India, which opened in 2014, and a center in Hong Kong which opened in 2018.

Administration and finance

Hutchinson Commons

The university is governed by a board of trustees. The board of trustees oversees the long-term development and plans of the university and manages fundraising efforts, and is composed of 55 members including the university president. Directly beneath the president are the provost, fourteen vice presidents (including the chief financial officer, chief investment officer, and vice president for campus life and student services), the directors of Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, the secretary of the university, and the student ombudsperson. As of May 2022, the current chairman of the board of trustees is David Rubenstein. The current provost is Katherine Baicker since March 2023. The current president of the University of Chicago is chemist Paul Alivisatos, who assumed the role on September 1, 2021. Robert Zimmer, the previous president, transitioned into the new role of chancellor of the university.

The university's endowment was the 12th largest among American educational institutions and state university systems in 2013 and as of 2020 was valued at $10 billion. Since 2016, the university's board of trustees has resisted pressure from students and faculty to divest its investments from fossil fuel companies. Part of former university President Zimmer's financial plan for the university was an increase in accumulation of debt to finance large building projects. This drew both support and criticism from many in the university community. In 2023 the University agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle a lawsuit that it and other universities conspired to limit financial aid to students.

Academics

The University of Chicago Main Quadrangles, looking north

The academic bodies of the University of Chicago consist of the College, four divisions of graduate research, seven professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. The university also contains a library system, the University of Chicago Press, and the University of Chicago Medical Center, and oversees several laboratories, including Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Argonne National Laboratory, and the Marine Biological Laboratory. The university is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission.

The university runs on a quarter system in which the academic year is divided into four terms: Summer (June–August), Autumn (September–December), Winter (January–March), and Spring (April–June). Full-time undergraduate students take three to four courses every quarter for approximately nine weeks before their quarterly academic breaks. The school year typically begins in late September and ends in late May.

Reputation and rankings

Academic rankings
National
ARWU	8
Forbes	14
U.S. News & World Report	12 (tie)
Washington Monthly	35
WSJ/College Pulse	75
Global
ARWU	10
QS	21
THE	13
U.S. News & World Report	25

After its foundation in the late 19th century, the University of Chicago quickly became established as one of the wealthiest and, according to Henry S. Webber, one of the most prestigious universities in America. To elevate higher education standards and practices, the university was a founder of the Association of American Universities in 1900. According to Jonathan R. Cole, universities such as Chicago leveraged endowments to fund research, attracting accomplished faculty and producing academic advancements, leading to sustained growth and maintenance of their institutional profile such that Chicago has been among the most distinguished research universities in the US for more than a century. The university is described by the Encyclopedia Britannica as "one of the United States' most outstanding universities".

ARWU has consistently placed the University of Chicago among the top 10 universities in the world, and the 2021 QS World University Rankings placed the university in 9th place worldwide. THE World University Rankings has ranked it among the global top 10 for eleven consecutive years (from 2012 to 2022).

The university's law and business schools rank among the top three professional schools in the United States. The business school is currently ranked first in the US by US News & World Report and first in the world by The Economist, while the law school is ranked third by US News & World Report and first by Above the Law.

The university has an extensive record of producing successful business leaders and billionaires.

Undergraduate college

Main article: College of the University of Chicago

Harper Memorial Library was dedicated in 1912, and its architecture takes inspiration from various colleges in England.

The College of the University of Chicago grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 51 academic majors and 33 minors. The college's academics are divided into five divisions: the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division, the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, the Humanities Collegiate Division, and the New Collegiate Division. The first four are sections within their corresponding graduate divisions, while the New Collegiate Division administers interdisciplinary majors and studies which do not fit in one of the other four divisions.

Undergraduate students are required to take a distribution of courses to satisfy the university's general education requirements, commonly known as the Core Curriculum. In 2012–2013, the Core classes at Chicago were limited to 17 courses, and are generally led by a full-time professor (as opposed to a teaching assistant). As of the 2013–2014 school year, 15 courses and demonstrated proficiency in a foreign language are required under the Core. Undergraduate courses at the University of Chicago are known for their demanding standards, heavy workload and academic difficulty; according to Uni in the USA, "Among the academic cream of American universities – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and the University of Chicago – it is UChicago that can most convincingly claim to provide the most rigorous, intense learning experience."

Eckhart Hall houses the university's math department.

Graduate schools and committees

The university graduate schools and committees are divided into four divisions: Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences, and eight professional schools. In the autumn quarter of 2022, the university enrolled 10,546 graduate students on degree-seeking courses: 569 in the Biological Sciences Division, 612 in the Humanities Division, 2,103 in the Physical Sciences Division, 972 in the Social Sciences Division, and 6,290 in the professional schools (including the Graham School).

The university is home to several committees for interdisciplinary scholarship, including the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought.

Professional schools

The university contains eight professional schools: the University of Chicago Law School, the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Booth School of Business, the University of Chicago Divinity School, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies (which offers non-degree courses and certificates as well as degree programs) and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

The Law School is accredited by the American Bar Association, the Divinity School is accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, and Pritzker is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

Associated academic institutions

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a private day school run by the university

The university runs a number of academic institutions and programs apart from its undergraduate and postgraduate schools. It operates the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (a private day school for K-12 students and day care), and a public charter school with four campuses on the South Side of Chicago administered by the university's Urban Education Institute. In addition, the Hyde Park Day School, a school for students with learning disabilities, and the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, a residential treatment program for those with behavioral and emotional problems, maintains a location on the University of Chicago campus. Since 1983, the University of Chicago has maintained the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, a mathematics program used in urban primary and secondary schools. The university runs a program called the Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, which administers interdisciplinary workshops to provide a forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present scholarly work in progress. The university also operates the University of Chicago Press, the largest university press in the United States.

Library system

University of Chicago, Harper Library

The University of Chicago Library system encompasses six libraries that contain a total of 11 million volumes, the 9th most among library systems in the United States. The university's main library is the Regenstein Library, which contains one of the largest collections of print volumes in the United States. The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, built in 2011, houses a large study space and an automated book storage and retrieval system. The John Crerar Library contains more than 1.4 million volumes in the biological, medical and physical sciences and collections in general science and the philosophy and history of science, medicine, and technology. The university also operates a number of special libraries, including the D'Angelo Law Library, the Social Service Administration Library, and the Eckhart Library for mathematics and computer science. Harper Memorial Library is now a reading and study room.

Research

Aerial view of Fermilab, a science research laboratory co-managed by the University of Chicago

According to the National Science Foundation, University of Chicago spent $423.9 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 60th in the nation. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and was a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation from 1946 through June 29, 2016, when the group's name was changed to the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The University of Chicago is not a member of the rebranded consortium, but will continue to be a collaborator.

The university operates more than 140 research centers and institutes on campus. Among these are the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa—a museum and research center for Near Eastern studies owned and operated by the university—and a number of National Resource Centers, including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Chicago also operates or is affiliated with several research institutions apart from the university proper. The university manages Argonne National Laboratory, part of the United States Department of Energy's national laboratory system, and co-manages Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a nearby particle physics laboratory, as well as a stake in the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico. Faculty and students at the adjacent Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago collaborate with the university. In 2013, the university formed an affiliation with the formerly independent Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. The National Opinion Research Center maintains an office at the Hyde Park campus and is affiliated with multiple academic centers and institutes.

University of Chicago building during fall

The University of Chicago has been the site of some important experiments and academic movements. In economics, the university has played an important role in shaping ideas about the free market and is the namesake of the Chicago school of economics, the school of economic thought supported by Milton Friedman and other economists. The university's sociology department was the first independent sociology department in the United States and gave birth to the Chicago school of sociology. In physics, the university was the site of the Chicago Pile-1 (the first controlled, self-sustaining human-made nuclear chain reaction, part of the Manhattan Project), of Robert Millikan's oil-drop experiment that calculated the charge of the electron, and of the development of radiocarbon dating by Willard F. Libby in 1947. The chemical experiment that tested how life originated on early Earth, the Miller–Urey experiment, was conducted at the university. REM sleep was discovered at the university in 1953 by Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky.

The University of Chicago (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics) operated the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin from 1897 until 2018, where the largest operating refracting telescope in the world and other telescopes are located.

Arts

Saieh Hall for Economics, houses the Department of Economics and the Becker Friedman Institute.

The UChicago Arts program joins academic departments and programs in the Division of the Humanities and the college, as well as professional organizations including the Court Theatre, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa, the Smart Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Presents, and student arts organizations. The university has an artist-in-residence program and scholars in performance studies, contemporary art criticism, and film history. It has offered a doctorate in music composition since 1933 and cinema and media studies since 2000, a master of fine arts in visual arts (early 1970s), and a Master of Arts in the humanities with a creative writing track (2000). It has bachelor's degree programs in visual arts, music, and art history, and, more recently, cinema and media studies (1996) and theater and performance studies (2002). The college's general education core includes a "dramatic, musical, and visual arts" requirement, inviting students to study the history of the arts, stage design, or begin working with sculpture. Several thousand major and non-major undergraduates enroll annually in creative and performing arts classes. UChicago is often considered the birthplace of improvisational comedy as the Compass Players student comedy troupe evolved into The Second City improvisation theater troupe in 1959. The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts opened in October 2012, five years after a $35 million gift from alumnus David Logan and his wife Reva. The center includes spaces for exhibitions, performances, classes, and media production. The Logan Center was designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

Student body and admissions

Admissions

Undergraduate admissions statistics
2023 entering classChange vs. 2018
Admit rate	4.8% ( −3.3)
Yield rate	87.9% ( +24.2)

In Fall 2021, the university enrolled 7,559 undergraduate students, 10,893 graduate students, and 449 non-degree students. The college class of 2025 is composed of 53% male students and 47% female students. Twenty-seven percent of the class identify as Asian, 19% as Hispanic, and 10% as Black. Eighteen percent of the class is international. The university is need-blind for domestic applicants.

Admissions to the University of Chicago has become highly selective over the past two decades, reflecting changes in the application process, school popularity, and marketing strategy. Between 1996 and 2023, the acceptance rate of the college fell from 71% to 4.7%. For the Class of 2027, the acceptance rate was 4.7%.

The middle 50% band of SAT scores for the undergraduate class of 2025 was 1510–1570 (98th–99th percentiles), the average MCAT score for students entering the Pritzker School of Medicine class of 2024 was 519 (97th percentile), the median GMAT score for students entering the full-time Booth MBA program class of 2023 was 740 (97th percentile), and the median LSAT score for students entering the Law School class of 2021 was 172 (99th percentile).

In 2018, the University of Chicago attracted national headlines by becoming the first major research university to no longer require SAT/ACT scores from college applicants.

Athletics

Official athletics logo

Main article: Chicago Maroons

The University of Chicago hosts 19 varsity sports teams: 10 men's teams and 9 women's teams, all called the Maroons, with 502 students participating in the 2012–2013 school year.

The Maroons compete in the NCAA's Division III as members of the University Athletic Association (UAA). The university was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and participated in the NCAA Division I men's basketball and football and was a regular participant in the men's basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen. In 1935, Chicago Maroons football player Jay Berwanger became the first winner of the Heisman Trophy. However, the university chose to withdraw from the Big Ten Conference in 1946 after University president Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football. In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division III team, resuming playing its home games at the new Stagg Field. UChicago is also the home of the ultimate frisbee team UChicago Fission.

Student life

The university's Reynolds Club, the student center

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022 hide

Race and ethnicity	Total
White	36%	36
Asian	20%	20
Foreign national	15%	15
Hispanic	15%	15
Other	9%	9
Black	5%	5
Economic diversity
Low-income	12%	12
Affluent	88%	88

Student organizations

Students at the University of Chicago operate more than 400 clubs and organizations known as Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs). These include cultural and religious groups, academic clubs and teams, and common-interest organizations. Notable extracurricular groups include the University of Chicago College Bowl Team, which has won 118 tournaments and 15 national championships, leading both categories internationally. The university's competitive Model United Nations team was the top-ranked team in North America in 2013–2014, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, and again for the 2017–2018 season. The university's Model UN team is also the first to be in the top 5 for almost a decade, according to Best Delegate. Among notable student organizations are the nation's longest continuously running student film society Doc Films; the organizing committee for the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt; the weekly student newspaper The Chicago Maroon; the satirical Chicago Shady Dealer; an improvisational theater and sketch comedy group Off-Off Campus; The Blue Chips, an investing club managing $150k in assets; UT, performing up to 12 shows a year across campus; and UCJAS, organizers of UChi-Con, a yearly anime convention

The University of Chicago is home to eight student-run a cappella groups, several of which compete regularly at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). The school's two most prominent co-ed a cappella groups are Voices in Your Head, which competed at the ICCA finals in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022, as well as the Ransom Notes, which competed at the ICCA finals in 2021. Other successful a cappella groups on campus include the all-female group Unaccompanied Women, which is also the school's oldest established group, as well as the all-male group Run For Cover, which performs in prolific events across the Midwest every year.

Student government

All recognized student organizations, from the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt to Model UN, in addition to academic teams, sports clubs, arts groups, and more are funded by The University of Chicago Student Government. Student Government consists of graduate and undergraduate students elected to represent members from their respective academic units. It is led by an executive committee, chaired by a president with the assistance of two vice presidents, one for administration and the other for student life, elected together as a slate by the student body each spring. Its annual budget is greater than $2 million.

Fraternities and sororities

There are 13 fraternities at the university: Alpha Delta Phi (Chicago chapter), Alpha Epsilon Pi (Lambda chapter), Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Delta Delta), Delta Upsilon (Chicago chapter), Lambda Phi Epsilon (Psi chapter), Phi Delta Theta (IL Beta chapter), Phi Gamma Delta (Chi Upsilon chapter), Phi Iota Alpha (Chicago Colony chapter), Psi Upsilon (Omega chapter), Sigma Chi (Omicron Omicron chapter), Pi Kappa Alpha (Iota Xi chapter) and Zeta Psi (Omega Alpha chapter). There are four sororities: Alpha Omicron Pi (Phi Chi chapter), Delta Gamma (Eta Zeta chapter), Kappa Alpha Theta (Epsilon Phi chapter) and Pi Beta Phi (IL Kappa chapter) at the University of Chicago, as well as one co-ed community service fraternity are Alpha Phi Omega (Gamma Sigma chapter). Social fraternities and sororities are not recognized by the university as registered student organizations. Four of the sororities are members of the National Panhellenic Conference There is no Interfraternity Council on campus. The Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) consists of three fraternities and four sororities: Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity (Theta chapter), Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (Beta chapter), Delta Sigma Theta sorority (Lambda chapter), Phi Iota Alpha fraternity (University of Chicago Colony), Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity (Psi chapter), Lambda Pi Chi sorority (Chi chapter), and alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority (University of Chicago, associate chapter).

As of 2017, approximately 20 to 25 percent of students are members of fraternities or sororities. This is an increase from the numbers published in 2007 by the student activities office, stating that one in ten undergraduates participated in Greek life.

Student housing

Max Palevsky Residential Commons is a dormitory completed in 2001 designed by postmodernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.

Main article: Housing at the University of Chicago

On-campus undergraduate students at the University of Chicago participate in a house system in which each student is assigned to one of the university's seven residence hall buildings and to a smaller community within their residence hall called a "house". There are 39 houses, with an average of 70 students in each house. The houses are named after former professors and other historical figures in the University community, such as Eugene Fama.

Traditionally only first years were required to live in housing, but starting with the Class of 2023, students are required to live in housing for the first 2 years of enrollment. About 60% of undergraduate students live on campus.

For graduate students, the university owns and operates 28 apartment buildings near campus.

Traditions

Qwazy Quad Rally, Scav Hunt 2005

Main articles: Doc Films and University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt

Каждый май с 1987 года Чикагский университет проводил охоту за мусором Чикаго , в котором крупные команды студентов конкурируют, чтобы получить общеизвестно эзотерические элементы из списка. Каждый январь университет проводит недельный зимний фестиваль, Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko (Kuvia), который включает в себя ранние утренние упражнения и мастерские по фитнесу. Университет также ежегодно проводит летний карнавал и концерт под названием Summer Breeze, который принимает за пределами музыкантов и является домом для Doc Films , студенческого кино общество, основанное в 1932 году, которое показывает фильмы ночью в университете. С 1946 года университет организовал дебаты Латке-Хаманташ , которая включает в себя юмористические дискуссии об относительных достоинствах и значениях Лакс и Хаманташена .

Люди

Для более полного списка см. Список людей Чикагского университета .

Дополнительная информация: Список нобелевских лауреатов, связанных с Чикагским университетом

По состоянию на октябрь 2020 года , в Чикагском университете было 100 нобелевских лауреатов, связанных с Чикагским университетом, 21 из которых проводили исследования или на преподавателях в университете во время объявления о награде. Примечательные выпускники и преподаватели, связанные с университетом, включают 33 нобелевских лауреатов по экономике .

Кроме того, многие выпускники и ученые Чикаго выиграли награды Фулбрайта и 53 имеют учебные заведения как ученые Родса .

Выпускники

Для более полного списка см. Список выпускников Чикагского университета .

Физик Энрико Ферми

В 2019 году Чикагский университет претендовал на 188 000 выпускников. В то время как первый президент университета, Уильям Рейни Харпер, подчеркнул важность многолетней теории над практичностью в учебной программе его института, это не остановило выпускников Чикаго быть одним из самых богатых в мире.

В бизнесе, известные выпускники включают Microsoft генерального директора Сатья Наделла , основатель Oracle Corporation и шестой богатый человек в Америке Ларри Эллисон (который присутствовал на один срок, но решил уйти перед выпускными экзаменами), ) , Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs и MF Global Geal, а также бывшего губернатора), Goldman Sachs и MF Global, а также бывшего губернатора и MF Glob Нью-Джерси Джона Корзина , основателя McKinsey & Company и автора первого по управлению учебника Джеймсом О. МакКинси , соучредителем группы Blackstone Peter G. Peterson , соучредителя AQR Capital Management Cliff Asness , основателя Dimensional Fund Advisors Дэвид Бут , основатель группы Карлайл Дэвид Рубенштейн , бывший главный операционный директор Goldman Sachs Andrew Alper -миллиардер и основатель Management Oaktree Capital Management Howard Marks (инвестор) , Bloomberg Lp генеральный директор Daniel Doctoff , Credit Suisse генеральный директор Brady Dougan , Morningstar, Inc. , инвестор и генеральный директор Джо Мансуэто , Cubs Chicago Themas владелец и председатель Томас С. Рикеттс и NBA комиссар Адам Сильвер .

Премьер -министр Канады Уильям Лион Маккензи Кинг в 1947 году

Верховного суда Судья Джон Пол Стивенс

Сенатор США Кэрол Мозли Браун

Примечательные выпускники в области права, правительства и политики включают Верховного суда судьи Джон Пол Стивенс ; Господь главного судьи Англии и Лорд Уэльса Томас из CWMGIDD ; Президент Верховного суда Израиля Симона Аграната ; Генеральный прокурор и федеральный судья Роберт Борк ; Генерал адвокатов Рэмси Кларк , Джон Эшкрофт и Эдвард Леви ; Премьер -министр Канады Уильям Лион Маккензи Кинг ; 33 -й премьер -министр Новой Зеландии Джеффри Палмер ; 11 -й премьер -министр Польши Марек Белка ; бывший вице -президент Тайваня Лиен Чан ; Губернатор Банка Японии Масааки Ширакава ; Дэвид Акселрод , советник президентов Барак Обама и Билл Клинтон ; основатель современного сообщества, организующего Саул Алинский ; Запретный агент Элиот Несс ; Бывший мэр Чикаго Лори Лайтфут ; первая женщина афроамериканцев афроамериканца Кэрол Мозли Браун ; Сенатор США из Вермонта и кандидат в президенты от Демократической партии в 2016 и 2020 годах Берни Сандерс ; бывший Всемирного банка президент Пол Вольфовиц ; Китайский юрист Мэй Джуа-Ао и Амиен Раис , профессор и бывший председатель Народного консультативного собрания Индонезии.

Заметные выпускники, которые являются лидерами в области высшего образования, появились почти во всех частях университета: президент колледжа и канцлер Ребекка Чопп ; нынешний президент колледжа Мидлбери Лори Л. Паттон ; Магистр Клэр Колледж, Кембридж и вице-канцлер Лорда Кембриджского университета Эшби ; Президент Принстонского университета Кристофер Л. Эйсгубер ; Бывший президент колледжа Морхаус Роберт М. Франклин -младший ; Президент Открытого университета Израиля Джейкоба Метцер ; и президент Shimer College Сьюзен Хенкинг . Социолог Гарольд Л. Шеппард получил степень магистра в области социологии в Чикагском университете в 1945 году и доктора философии. в области социологии и антропологии из Висконсинского университета в 1949 году.

В журналистике известные выпускники включают обозревателя New York Times и комментатора PBS News Hour David Brooks , Washington Post обозревателя Дэвид Бродер , Washington Post издатель Кэтрин Грэм , репортер и комментатор Вирджиния Грэм , журналист по расследованию и политический писатель Сеймур Херш , прогрессивный столбец Милтон Майер. Четырехкратный журналист Пулитцеровской премии Рик Аткинсон , статистик бейсбола Сара Лэнгс , статистический аналитик и основатель FiveThirtyEight и создатель Нейт Сильвер и корреспондент ABC News Ребекка Джарвис .

В литературе автор бестселлера «Нью -Йорк Таймс» до того, как я упаду , Лорен Оливер , Пулитцеровской премии романист Филип Рот ; в Канаде Пулитцеровская премия и Нобелевская премия за литературу, выигравшую писателя Саула Беллоу ; Политический философ, литературный критик и автор бестселлера «Нью -Йорк Таймс», закрытие американского ума Аллана Блума ; Автор Большой Страны и Мэтт Хелм Шпион Романов Дональд Гамильтон ; Добрый автор войны забивает Terkel ; писатель, эссеист, режиссер, учитель и политический активист Сьюзан Сонтаг ; Аналитический философ и Стэнфордского университета профессор сравнительной литературы Ричард Рорти ; профессор правительства и автор риторического президентства Джеффри К. Тулиса ; Культурный комментатор , автор и президент колледжа Святого Стефана (ныне Бард Колледж ) Бернард Иддингс Белл ; и романист и сатирик Курт Воннегут являются примечательными выпускниками.

В искусстве и развлечениях минималистский композитор Филипп Гласс , танцор, хореограф и лидер в области танцевальной антропологии Кэтрин Данхэм , Bungie основатель и разработчик Alex серии видеоигр Seropian , сериал , Сара Кениг актер Эд Аснер , актриса Анна Члюмсский , Пулитцеровская премия за критику, выигравшую кинокритику и тему документального фильма 2014 года, сама жизнь Роджер Эберт , режиссер, писатель и комик Майк Николс , режиссер и сценарист Филип Кауфман , а также фотограф и писатель Карл Ван Вехтен , фотограф и писатель, являются Выпускники.

Астроном Карл Саган в 1980 году

В науке выпускники включают астрономов Карла Сагана , выдающегося вкладчика в научные исследования внеземной жизни , и Эдвин Хаббл , известный « Закон Хаббла », НАСА астронавт Джон М. Грунсфельд , генетик Джеймс Уотсон , наиболее известный как один из со-соавтора. Обнаружения структуры ДНК , вакцинолога Морис Хилман спасают почти 8 миллионов жизней в год, экспериментальный физик Луис Альварес , популярный эколог Дэвид Сузуки , астроном . Аллен Ханек физик и исследователь -ядерный Дж , . , чьи вакцины Биологи Эрнест Эверетт Юстоса и Линн Маргулис , компьютерный ученый Ричард Хэмминг , создатель кода хэминга , литий-ионных аккумуляторов разработчик Джон Б. Гуденоу , математик и медали получатель Пол Джозеф Коэн , геохимист Клер Кэмерон Паттерсон , который развил урану- знакомств Метод в датирование свинца , геолог и геофизик М. Кинг Хабберт , известный своей Кривой Хабберта и теорией пика Хабберта , основные компоненты Пик нефть и «Королева углеродного» Милдред Дрендельхаус . Рэй Соломонофф , один из основателей области машинного обучения , а также сложности Колмогорова , получил BS и MS в физике в 1951 году, обучаясь при Rudolf Carnap .

Нобелевская мемориальная премия в области экономических наук Милтон Фридман в 2004 году

В экономике известная экономических наук Нобелевская Мемориальная премия по победителям Милтон Фридман (крупный советник республиканского президента США Рональда Рейгана , консервативного британского премьер -министра Маргарет Тэтчер и чилийского военного диктатора Огуста Пиночета ), Джордж Стиглер (Нобелевская лауреат и сторонник Регулярного захвата ). Герберт А. Саймон (ответственный за современную интерпретацию концепции организационного принятия решений) Пол Самуэльсон (первый американец, получивший Нобелевскую мемориальную премию в области экономических наук) и Юджина Фама (известная своей работой по теории портфеля , ценообразования активов и Поведение фондового рынка) - все выпускники. Американский экономист , социальный теоретик , политический философ и автор Томас Соуэлл также является выпускником. Министр экономики Бразилии Пауло Гедес получил докторскую степень. из Учикаго в 1978 году.

Другие выдающиеся выпускники включают антропологов Дэвид Гребер и Дональд Йохансон которые наиболее известны за то, что обнаружили ископаемое женского гоминидного австралопитеки, известной как « Люси » в регионе издалека , психолог Джона Б. Уотсона , американский психолог, который создал психологическую школу поведения , , теоретик связи Гарольд Иннис , политический теоретик Энн Нортон , шахматный гроссмейстер Сэмюэль Решевский , и ученый -консервативный ученый по международным отношениям и координатор по планированию безопасности Совета национальной безопасности Сэмюэля П. Хантингтона .

Американские лидеры движения за гражданские права Вернон Джонс , считающийся некоторыми являются основателем американского движения за гражданские права, американского педагога, социалиста и соучредителя горной народной школы Майлз Хортон , адвокат по гражданским правам и председатель Комитета по справедливой практике занятости граф Б. Дикерсон , летчиков Tuskegee командир Бенджамин О. Дэвис-младший , афроамериканский ученый и журналист по истории и журналист Картер Дж. Вудсон и Nubian Scholar Solange Ashby -выпускники.

Три ученика из университета были привлечены к ответственности по заметным судебным делам: печально известные убийцы острых ощущений Натан Леопольд, Ричард Лоб и преподаватель естественных наук в старшей школе Джон Т. Скапс, которые были предприняты в суде по обезьянам обезьяны для преподавания эволюции .

Факультет

Для более полного списка см. Список факультета Чикагского университета .

Арка между часовней Бонд и Свифт -Холл, где проживает Университетская школа Божественного Божества

Примечательным факультетом экономики является Фридрих Хайек , Фрэнк Найт , Милтон Фридман , Джордж Стиглер , Джеймс Хекман , Гэри Беккер , Роберт Фогель , Роберт Лукас -младший , Джон А. Лист и Юджин Фама . Кроме того, медаль Джона Бейтса Кларка , которая ежегодно вознаграждается лучшему экономисту в возрасте до 40 лет, также была присуждена 4 нынешним членам университетского факультета.

Примечательный факультет физики включал в себя калькулятор Скорости Света А.А. Микельсон , калькулятор элементарного заряда Роберт А. Милликан , обнаружение Эффекта Комптона Артура Х. Комптона , создателя первого ядерного реактора Энрико Ферми , «Отец водородной бомбы » Эдвард Теллер , «один из самых блестящих и продуктивных экспериментальных физиков двадцатого века» Луиса Уолтера Альвареса , Мюррея Гелла-Манна , который представил Кварка , вторая женщина-нобелевская лауреат Мария Гепперт-Мейер , самый молодой американский победитель Нобелевской премии Цунг. Дао Ли и астрофизик Субрахманан Чандрасекхар .

В законе бывший президент США Барак Обама , самый цитируемый юридический ученый 20 -го века Ричард Поснер , судьи Верховного суда Елена Каган , Антонин Скалия и Джон Пол Стивенс и нобелевский лауреат по экономике Рональд Коас работали на факультете. Другие выдающиеся ученые, которые работали на факультете, включают Карла Ллевеллина , Эдварда Леви , Касса Санштейна и юридического историка Стэнли Нидер Кац .

Философы, которые были членами факультета, включают философа Нобелевской премии философа Бертрана Рассела , Джона Дьюи (центральная фигура в прагматизме и основатель функциональной психологии ), философ и политический теоретик Ханна Арендт , Джордж Х. Мид (который считается одним из основателей Социальная психология и американская социологическая традиция), и Лео Штраус (выдающийся философ и основатель Шкаусской школы в области философии). Примечательные писатели Т.С. Элиот , Ральф Эллисон , и JM Coetzee все служили на факультете.

Среди прошлых преподавателей также входили астроном Джерард Куйпер , биохимик и женской славы национальный член Флоренс Б. Сейберт , биолог Сьюзен Линдквист , Химики -победители Нобелевской премии Гленн Т. Сиборг (разработчик концепции актинидов ), Генри Тауб и Юань Т. Ли , египтолог Джеймс Генри Брюш , математик Альберто Кальдерон , Фридрих Хайек (одна из ведущих фигур австрийской школы экономики и лауреата Нобелевской премии), метеоролог Тед Фудзита , лингвистический антрополог Майкл Сильверштейн , новичок -премия Соул Беллоу , американский политичный ученый Герберт хранится , политический философ и автор Аллан Блум , консервативный политический философ и историк Ричард М. Уивер , исследователи рака Чарльз Брентон Хаггинс и Джанет Роули , одна из самых важных фигур в раннем развитии дисциплины лингвистики Эдвард Сапир , основатель McKinsey & Co. Джеймс О. МакКинси и лауреат Нобелевской премии Джеймс Кронин .

В настоящее время входят философы Жан-Люк Марион , Джеймс Ф. Конант , Роберт Пиппин и премии Киото лауреат Марту Нуссбаум ; Политологи Джон Мершаймер и Роберт Папе ; антрополог Маршалл Сахлинс ; историки Дипеш Чакрабарти , Дэвид Ниренберг и Кеннет Померанц ; палеонтологи Нил Шубин и Пол Серено ; Эволюционный биолог Джерри Койн ; Лауреат Нобелевской премии Экономисты Юджин Фама , Джеймс Хекман , Ларс Питер Хансен , Роджер Майерсон , Ричард Талер и Дуглас Даймонд ; Freakonomics Автор и известный экономист Стивен Левитт ; Автор эффекта напряжения и известный экономист Джон список ; Индии бывший губернатор центрального банка Рагурам Раджан ; и бывший председатель президента Барака Обамы Остан Совета экономических советников Гулсби .

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