Prof. Ariel Kalil writes that multigenerational households give children the same levels of support as two-parent households, and argues that the government should invest in single mothers to boost outcomes for their kids.

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Since 1987, UChicago's Scav Hunt has challenged teams of students and alumni to complete a list of items ranging from the incredibly bizarre to impossibly challenging. Learn more about the uniquely UChicago tradition: ms.spr.ly/6017YnGRd

UChicago ecologist Greg Dwyer studies invasive species to uncover the relationship between defoliation, insect populations and climate change. ms.spr.ly/6012Yn8Dr

Asst. Prof. Molly Offer-Westort has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, which honors scholars whose work helps address growing political polarization. The $200,000 prize will support her research on online political discourse and misinformation. ms.spr.ly/6010YVoag

The South Side is now home to one of the largest fossil labs in the world. UChicago paleontologist Paul Sereno called the Washington Park facility 'a dream lab' for scientists and a 'game-changer' for the community. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6015YVYFX ms.spr.ly/6012YVYFp

UChicago Harris Policy alum Trina Reynolds-Tyler, MPP'20, has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting with journalist Sarah Conway for their investigative multimedia series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6017YVPCN

Does manifesting our goals actually work—or is it just pseudoscience? On Big Brains Podcast, neurosurgeon James Doty shares the neuroscience behind manifestation—and the steps we can take to actually achieve our goals. ms.spr.ly/6010YVGzn

The NWS Chicago has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Chicago, including the area near The University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus.

cAlert: the Main Quad and adjacent buildings are now open.

Read President Alivisatos’ message to the UChicago community about the University’s intervention this morning to end the encampment on the Main Quad. president.uchicago.edu/from-the-presi…

cAlert: the Main Quad is closed and adjacent buildings are locked until the Quad cleanup is complete.

cAlert: please avoid the Main Quad area. Reports of physical altercations.

Do our brains have the power to control our futures? On Big Brains Podcast, unravel the mysteries of the mind with @stanfordmed's James R. Doty, M.D., who explains the neuroscience of manifesting our intentions. ms.spr.ly/6013YuH3H ms.spr.ly/6012YuH3G

UChicago Profs. Nicolas Dauphas, David DeMille, Bonnie Fleming, Michael Greenstone and Nipam Patel have been elected to the @TheNASciences, which recognizes scientists and researchers for distinguished achievements in original research. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6015YPz4t

To help support migrant students, UChicago students served as tutors and teaching assistants in schools across Hyde Park. The Neighborhood Schools Program invited Spanish-speaking participants to help students transition to a new classroom and city. ms.spr.ly/6018YP1gI

Hailed as 'an achievement of humanistic inquiry' and 'a triumph of scholarship,' Assoc. Prof. Margareta Ingrid Christian's book 'Objects in Air' has earned the Gordon J. Laing Award—the top honor by the UChicagoPress. ms.spr.ly/6019Y3rgN ms.spr.ly/6018Y3rg2

Challenging students to tackle policymaking's biggest problems, UChicago Institute of Politics (IOP) recently asked students to find innovative ways to improve affordable housing. Teams presented their ideas and faced tough questions from IOP Director Heidi Heitkamp. ms.spr.ly/6011YKYE1

UChicago scientists have invented an ultra-thin, minimally invasive pacemaker controlled by light. The results could help reduce complications in heart surgery and offer new horizons for future devices. ms.spr.ly/6019YKcet

Six UChicago faculty members have been newly elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

These scholars have made breakthroughs in fields ranging from linguistics to fundamental biology. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6011YKi7S

Arbor Day: Did you know the significance of this lone bur oak on the Midway Plaisance? Prof. John Mark Hansen says it was marked as “Treaty Oak” on a map he found, but it provided no explanation. One theory is that it’s a relic of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.