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1. University Chicago
   Manyuan Long, PhD, assistant professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, is one of the nation's 24 recipients of the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The Fellowship, which provides $650,000 over the course of five years, is awarded to young professors in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy, and computer science to support basic research.
2. University Chicago -- Loyola University Chicago
   Loyola University Chicago is a private co-educational religious-affiliated university established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College. It was founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus and bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of twenty-eight member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of more than 15,000 students, is one of the largest Jesuit Universities in the United States. [4] Loyola is considered one of the 262 "national universities" by US News & World Report, with a ranking of 112.[5]
3. University Chicago -- Chicago Hospitals
   Loyola University of Chicago has a medical school, the Stritch School of Medicine, and a hospital and medical center associated with them, all located on a campus in Maywood, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. The former Mundelein College is located just south of the Lake Shore Campus. The former Niles campus no longer exists.
4. University Chicago -- Chicago Society
   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 Chicago Debate Society has had a top four team at the American Parliamentary Debate Association's National Championship tournament four out of the past five years. In addition, the college Mock Trial Team has placed in the top ten nationally five of the past six years and is currently ranked 7th among all programs nationally by the American Mock Trial Association. Finally, the University's Model United Nations Team is ... one of the most competitive on the college circuit. The team, in addition to competing, also hosts its own college-level conference, ChoMUN.
5. University Chicago -- Jesuit School
   University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB), established in 1898, is presently ranked number sixth among the top business schools. Chicago GSB is dedicated to the discovery of new business knowledge and its strict, discipline-based approach to business education transforms the students into confident, efficient, esteemed business leaders groomed to face the sturdiest challenges. The University has four campus locations which are Hyde Park Center, Chicago, Gleacher center, downtown Chicago, Europe Campus, London, and Asia Campus, Singapore.
6. University Chicago -- Journalism Award
   The University of Chicago Medical Center was awarded a three-year grant of $450,000 for an innovative end-of-life care program. The project is called PEACE, for Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer's Care. It will offer, in conjunction with Hospice of Michigan, full-service hospice care earlier in the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
7. University Chicago -- Buildings
   Berger... clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, welcomed the boycott. He said when he has other HIV treatment options to Abbott products he will recommend them to patients when it's in their best interest. He said he'll do likewise with other Abbott products, such as antibiotics.
8. University Chicago -- United States
   The first president of the University of Chicago, William Rainey Harper was a leading figure in the development of the modern university in the United States. He was born in New Concord, Ohio, and was considered an academic prodigy, enrolling at age ten as a freshman at Muskingum College where he studied language and music. After graduation at age fourteen, he went to Yale and earned a Ph.D. in Philology in three years. While in graduate school he courted Ella Paul, daughter of the president of Muskingum College. They were married a few months after Harper completed his Ph.D.
9. University Chicago -- Access
   Though founded under Baptist auspices, the University of Chicago has never had a sectarian affiliation. The school's traditions of rigorous scholarship were established primarily by Presidents William Rainey Harper and Robert Maynard Hutchins. Chicago opened its door to women and minorities from the very beginning, at a time when their access to other leading universities was extremely rare. It was the first major university to enroll women on an equal basis with men,[13] as well as the first major, predominantly white university to offer a black professor a tenured position, in 1947.[14]
10. University Chicago -- Programs
    The University of Chicago participates in the National Residency Matching Program. In 2004, the Department of Medicine received 2,536 applications and selected approximately 330 candidates for interviews. Selection for interview is based on a number of factors, including academic performance, clinical performance, particularly in medicine rotations, etc.

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