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From Bloomberg | The University of Chicago said Tuesday that it received 21,669 applications for undergraduate admission in the 2011-2012 academic year, after the institution enlisted alumni into its outreach efforts.
The total rose 12 percent from 19,374 a year earlier. Get the full story »
The University of Wisconsin at Madison beat storied institutions like Harvard and Yale in terms of brand presence on the Internet in 2010, according to a survey released on Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison was deemed the top U.S. university in a TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet analysis by the Global Language Monitor.
The list is compiled using a mathematical model to measure the “brand equity” of colleges in terms of their global impact on the Internet and social media during the year. Get the full story »
From Bloomberg News | The University of Chicago reported that its investment portfolio gained 19 percent in the past year, beating Yale University’s 8.9 percent gain and Harvard’s 11 percent increase. Its endowment was valued at $5.54 billion as of June 30.Get the full story>>
From Crain’s Chicago Business | Hedge fund operator Steven Stevanovich, a University of Chicago trustee who once donated $7 million to the school, has been accused in a lawsuit of reaping at least $323 million in “false profits” by participating in a Ponzi scheme. Stevanovich’s attorney and a spokesman for the U. of C. did not immediately return calls. Get the full story>>
Todd Henderson. (University of Chicago photo)
A law professor at the University of Chicago, where President Barack Obama once taught, is sorry he ever complained about the president’s tax policies.
Todd Henderson last week wrote on a blog about the effect the expiring Bush tax cuts would have on his family. He said his family, whose household income is north of $250,000, could not afford higher taxes. His wife is a doctor at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
“A quick look at our family budget, which I will happily share with the White House, will show him that like many Americans, we are just getting by despite seeming to be rich. We aren’t,” Henderson wrote on the blog “Truth on the Market.” Get the full story »
President Barack Obama meets with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, Austan Dean Goolsbee and Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel in 2009. (Nancy Stone/ Chicago Tribune)
President Barack Obama has chosen one of his longtime economic advisers, Austan Goolsbee, to be the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, a White House official said ahead of the formal announcement Friday.
Goolsbee, a University of Chicago professor of economics, is one of three economists on the council. He already has been confirmed to the council by the Senate. Get the full story >>
The incoming new top executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center wants to keep the prestigious South Side teaching hospital’s competitive edge in an era of health reform and threats from medical-care providers outside the area looking to expand here such as the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Kenneth Polonsky, 59, the top doctor in the Department of Medicine at Washington University’s School of Medicine in St. Louis and a former U. of C. research physician was named Dean of the division of Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs. He replaces Dr. James Madara, who resigned last year. Get the full story »
The top doctor at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis will be tapped as early as tomorrow to run the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to sources close to the Hyde Park teaching hospital.
Dr. Kenneth Polonsky, chairman of the department of medicine at Washington University, will be the first full-time Chief Executive Officer at the U of C hospital since Dr. Jim Madara stepped down last year as CEO after a three-year stint. A spokesman at the University of Chicago Medical Center said he could not comment and Polonsky’s office did not return a call this afternoon from the Tribune. Get the full story »
An initiative designed to transform health care that was once led by First Lady Michelle Obama on Chicago’s South Side has linked more than 5,600 largely low income patients to a medical home in five years, but has faced challenges in helping these people maintain a relationship with a doctor or clinic, executives at the University of Chicago said today.
Five years after the Urban Health Initiative was launched by executives at the University of Chicago Medical Center and its then vice president of community affairs Michelle Obama as a way to educate patients on the best use of the emergency room, the effort has grown into a network of 25 community-based clinics and other providers of medical-care on a budget of more than $6 million a year. It is now poised to escalate research initiatives and teaching opportunities for physicians in hopes of becoming a national model for medical care in urban areas of the U.S. Get the full story »
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business named an engineer from Stanford University as its new dean.
The prominent business school said Wednesday that it hired Sunil Kumar, a Stanford University professor, to succeed outgoing Dean Edward Snyder.
Kumar, 42, is a professor of operations, information and technology and an associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford University Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, Calif. He starts his five-year term Jan. 1. Get the full story »
From FT.com | As Ted Snyder finishes his last day as dean of Chicago Booth, the University of Chicago says it hopes to have his replacement named by the end of July. In the meantime, the business school’s three deputy deans — Stacey Kole, Mark Zmijewski and Richard Leftwich — will run things.
From Crain’s Chicago Business | The University of Chicago Medical Center has agreed to pay $7 million to settle charges of overcrowding in its neonatal intensive care unit.
