February 6, 2024
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News for the UChicago community
Hello, readers! This week we bring you research on fish that can walk, the things we say with our hands, and an economist’s challenge to the idea that slavery was a profitable system.
Continue reading to the Postscript to see a UChicago artist’s interactive public installation—a response to the practice of book banning.
Top of mind
Photo courtesy Valentina Di Santo
1. Sink, swim, or...?
A “fish gym” at the Marine Biological Laboratory may help researchers better understand why some ancient fish evolved to walk. More
Get to know paleontologist Neil Shubin through a lighthearted interview in the University of Chicago Magazine.
2. Emancipation as economic gain
Economic historian Richard Hornbeck, AB’04, argues that the emancipation of enslaved people brought the US massive financial gains. More
Listen to a Chicago Booth Review Podcast episode featuring Hornbeck’s research on Dust Bowl migrants and what they might tell us about future climate migrations.
3. Ideas in motion
What are our hands saying when our mouths are speaking? Psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow tells the Big Brains podcast. More
Watch Goldin-Meadow deliver the 2017 Ryerson Lecture on what she has learned in her career-long study of gesture.
Learn about the upcoming Ryerson Lecture with philosopher Jonathan Lear.
Plus . . .
Advances in sickle cell treatment + Econ Battle Zone + Cancer rates in the young + Diamonds for qubits + How does HIV invade cell nuclei? + See more stories
Things to do
February 7
Connect with members of the Black UChicago community at UCABA’s Black History Month Virtual Mixer
February 15
Get the latest on the Doomsday Clock in a virtual Harper Lecture with members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 15
Join Boston-area entrepreneurs for “Bringing a Biotech to Life,” featuring three speakers with experience in biotech start-ups
March 1
Attend the annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference
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On the job
Job of the week
Manager of cloud finance, Relativity
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Professional development
February 27
Decide if a career change is right for you with a free webinar
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In memoriam
Julie Saville
Julie Saville (1947–2023)
A rigorous historian and generous mentor, Julie Saville made key contributions to the study of US slavery and emancipation through her research and her guidance of young historians in training. More
Postscript
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