A conversation with recently retired New York City police officer Brian McAllister about his frustrations with the department and its relationship with the public. He’s found peace off the force, with the help of his dog Lola.
In a new paper, [Professor Marianne] Bertrand argues that the home environment is more likely to influence boys’ socio-emotional behavior and, subsequently, their educational outcomes than it does girls.
In “The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior,” Bertrand and Jessica Pan […] studied more than 20,000 American children whom they tracked for more than a decade. They found the gender gap particularly pronounced in children’s tendency to “externalize problems” or “act out.”
The sky-high debt levels of American households may be responsible for the high unemployment rate that continues to weigh on the economy, according to research by Amir Sufi, professor of finance, and Atif Mian of the University of California – Berkeley Haas School of Business.
In a working paper that has drawn the attention of blogs published by the New York Times and Mother Jones, Sufi argues that depressed consumer spending is causing high unemployment, and spending has fallen because of deep household debt.
When Smart Museum Deputy Director and Chief Curator Stephanie Smith recruited artists for Feast, the museum’s upcoming exhibition, she approached the guest list like any careful host.
“It was very akin to the process of putting together a dinner party,” she said. “You want to make sure everyone is contributing something valuable to the whole mix; you need people with different approaches to making art in order to produce a rich experience both within and outside the gallery.”
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, opening Thursday, Feb. 16 and running through June 10, engages audiences with the integral role that meals have played in artistic expression, dialogue, and progress since the early 20th century. Feast will offer viewers a number of ways to experience the installation—through permanent pieces on display in the Smart Museum’s gallery, and through an assortment of interactive elements and public events set in the museum and across Chicago.
Fifty-five years ago, well before his appointment as Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, Daniel Shannon shipped out to Seattle for his U.S. Army assignment at the port of embarkation for troops heading to or from the Far East—Fort Lawton in Seattle, Wash.
Shannon, who operated a broadcast network for the base hospital, recently spoke to a group of former servicemen and servicewomen gathered on campus for a Veterans Day breakfast on Friday, Nov. 11. Shannon described his own service story and talked about his father-in-law, a World War II vet who was aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Bunker Hill during the Battle of Okinawa.
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Among the nearly 50 veterans and guests who came to hear Shannon’s talk in the Social Sciences Research Building was Paul Strieleman, Senior Lecturer in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division. A United States Air Force veteran, Strieleman said he and other fellow veterans don’t have many opportunities to discuss their service with each other. “We like to joke about it, talk about it, just talk about some of the crazy things we did,” he said, “but we don’t talk about war that much.”
A new Trader Joe’s may be coming to a busy part of Lincoln Park and could be open as soon as June of next year, but nearby residents first want to do what they can to avoid potential traffic and parking headaches the store might bring.
“This is going to change the nature of our neighborhood, big time,” said Diane Handelsman, who lives directly behind the proposed site on West Schubert Avenue, “We want [Trader Joe’s], but we want to maintain the quality of our lifestyles.”
About 75 community members attended a meeting Tuesday night at Louisa May Alcott School to discuss the project.
Chief amongst the concerns of the attendees was the effect the store, which would be located on the corner of West Diversey Parkway and North Orchard Street, might have on local traffic.
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