Nathalie Gorman

Provost’s office outlines new plan for graduate aid

Adrian Florido and Nathalie Gorman

The Office of the Provost yesterday announced significant changes in the allocation of financial aid to current graduate students, who benefit little from the $50 million Graduate Aid Initiative fo...

Gourmet grocer to open in Hyde Park

Nathalie Gorman

Long considered a grocery wasteland, Hyde Park is in the process of transforming itself into a food lover’s oasis with the recent expansion of Hyde Park Produce, the coming of Treasure Island, and ...

Dresses—and shoes!—fit this Cinderella story

Nathalie Gorman

A new romantic comedy, 27 Dresses, starring Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy, Knocked Up), is a good old-fashioned Cinderella story. There’s a heroine who’s always getting other people ready for a w...

Speaker makes controversial climate claims

Nathalie Gorman

James M. Taylor, the senior fellow for environmental policy at the Heartland Institute and managing editor of its publication, Environment & Climate News, thinks about climate change all the time. ...

Marie Antoinette may be pretty in pink, but Coppola film lacks complete palette

Nathalie Gorman

About halfway through Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, I realized that I wasn’t sitting through a film, but an experience. As pink cake after pink cake, pink shoe after pink shoe, and gorgeous pin...

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The Maroon is on hiatus

The publication of the Maroon will resume January 9, at the beginning of winter quarter. Check chicagomaroon.com for breaking news updates.

Early applications to the College decrease by 15 percent

Michael Lipkin

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Sharat Ganapati

The College received 15 percent fewer early applications than it did during last year’s record-high, according to admissions office figures. Admissions officials attributed the decline to several factors, including the current fiscal crisis and the College’s increased selectivity, a potential deterrent to “casual applicants.”

President Zimmer asks admin for contingency budget cuts

Michael Lipkin

President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum have asked deans and University officers to develop scenarios that decrease spending in their departments by up to nine percent in response to the recent economic downturn.

Economics professor Austan Goolsbee appointed to two Obama committees

Alison Sider

Chicago Booth economics professor and self-proclaimed “Chicago guy” Austan Goolsbee will be leaving Chicago for Washington, D.C., this January, President-elect Barack Obama announced last week. Goolsbee will request a leave of absence from the Chicago Booth, where he has served since 1995.

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