Pulitzer Winner Shulmait Ran to Speak at University of Chicago Convocation
The University of Chicago is set to hold its 523rd convocation on Saturday, June 13, 2015. Instead of a commencement or graduation, University of Chicago calls this ceremony convocation, which means ritual assembly. More than 17,000 candidates and guests will share in this occasion, including speaker Shulmait Ran. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Matthew Gentzkow has been elected by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences as one of its 197 new Fellows, according to a press release on the school website.
A Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth, Gentkow studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a specific focus on media industries. He has had his work published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and Econometrica, and has been covered in major national media.
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